Volunteer and Professional Licensed Chaperones and Tutors

One role, different settings

A licensed child performance chaperone or tutor may work on a feature film, a school-linked production, a West End show, a local theatre performance, a television shoot, a commercial, a modelling job or a one-off paid appearance. The environment changes, but the child welfare responsibility remains central.

Volunteer chaperones, professional chaperones and tutors all need to understand boundaries, licence conditions, supervision, education time, reporting routes, confidentiality and the courage to raise concerns when something is not right.

• Knowing the limits of the chaperone or tutor role and not being pulled into unrelated production duties.
• Understanding when a child must be supervised and what good supervision looks like in practice.
• Keeping records, handovers, education notes and concern reporting clear where required by the production or local authority.
• Continuing to learn from official guidance, safeguarding practice and experienced peers.

Confidence, clarity and peer support

Many chaperones and tutors learn the formal rules but still want help with real-world judgement. What happens when a production runs late? What if a parent, director, photographer or stage manager disagrees? What if education time is squeezed? What if a child says they are fine but clearly looks overwhelmed?

Those moments are where confidence matters. Peer support helps chaperones and tutors compare experience, recognise patterns and feel less isolated when they need to advocate for a child performer.

What Chaperone Collective supports

Chaperone Collective is designed as a practical, peer-led space for licensed chaperones and tutors across the child performance world. It helps professional and volunteer chaperones and tutors discuss practice, find useful signposts and build a stronger shared culture around child welfare.

It also helps chaperones and tutors connect with productions and organisations looking for appropriate child-performance support.

It is not a replacement for approval by a local authority, official training, production safeguarding procedures, education requirements or legal advice. It is a community built to support better, clearer and more confident chaperoning and tutoring.