Dance school website design that matches every dancer to a class and a trial lesson

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Often, once the show sells tickets. In England, Wales and Scotland, the Children and Young Persons Act 1963 requires a licence from the council for any child below school leaving age, babies included, to take part in a performance with a charge for admission or otherwise, or in premises licensed to sell alcohol. No licence is needed if nobody is paid beyond expenses and either the child has not performed on more than three days in the previous six months, or the show is put on by a school or under a body of persons approval (BOPA) from the council where it takes place. The Department for Education's advice for England says a dance school a child attends only for dance training is not a school for that exemption, and that the four day rule cannot be used if the child would miss school. In England the limits on hours still apply under the four day rule. Wales and Scotland have their own regulations under the same Act, and Northern Ireland has its own Order. Say on the show page which route the school uses once the council has confirmed it.

For a licensed child in England, a chaperone approved by the council that issued the licence, unless the child is with a parent or the teacher who ordinarily provides their education. One chaperone may look after up to twelve children at a time, or three if they are the child's private teacher. Wales sets the same numbers and adds that the chaperone must have done child protection training; in Scotland the limit is ten. Northern Ireland has its own regulations, which call the role a matron. Under a BOPA, the Department for Education's advice says the law does not require a council-approved chaperone, though the approval comes with the council's own criteria and conditions. On the website, tell families who will be backstage, how many children each adult has, and how children are handed back at the end.

They are dance exam boards. Ofqual, which regulates qualifications in England, lists the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing (ISTD), the Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) and the International Dance Teachers Association (IDTA) as recognised awarding organisations, along with others such as the NATD and the British Ballet Organization, and CCEA Regulation recognises several of them in Northern Ireland. Each sets its own syllabus and graded exams and keeps its own register of teachers. The RAD says only its Registered Teachers can enter students for RAD exams, and that its map shows only teachers who chose to be listed, with a full register for the rest; the ISTD runs a teacher search of its own. So on the teachers page, name the board each teacher is registered with, in the board's words, and link that board's search so parents can check. A school whose teachers are not registered with a board should say nothing that suggests they are.

Yes, if every figure can be backed up. The CAP Code, which the ASA applies across the UK, your own website included, needs documentary evidence for an objective claim such as a pass rate or a count of distinctions before it is published, so keep the results sheets for the session you quote and say which exams and which year it covers. Its section on children adds that marketing aimed at them must not exaggerate what an ordinary child can achieve, so a results line describes what pupils did, not what a new pupil will do. UCAS points belong to the board's qualification rather than to the school: the ISTD says its Grade 6 and Intermediate exams sit at Level 3 of the Regulated Qualifications Framework and carry UCAS Tariff points, with Grade 6 worth 8, 10 or 14 at pass, merit or distinction. Quote the board's own figures and link the page they come from.

It depends on what your terms say and how they work out. Under the Consumer Rights Act 2015, which applies across the UK, a term that lets you keep money paid when a family decides not to carry on, or makes them pay a disproportionately high sum for classes not given, may be regarded as unfair, and an unfair term does not bind them. The CMA's guidance says making a substantial prepayment entirely non-refundable regardless of the circumstances is more likely to be unfair, and that a charge for leaving early should reflect what you save and whether you can fill the place, for instance by offering it to someone else. A stated sum that is a genuine estimate of your loss, set out clearly and where families will see it, is more likely to be fair. Put the notice to stop, what happens to the rest of the fee and any allowance for illness on the fees page, next to the price.

Usually for classes, though exam work may cost less. PPL PRS says a dance teacher holding classes in venues such as church halls or community centres needs TheMusicLicence; its example, correct as of July 2026, is £96.24 a year, or 64p a class plus VAT, for three classes a week of 20 dancers for 50 weeks in a village hall. PRS for Music, one of the two bodies behind it, makes no charge of its own for music played in a lesson or exam leading to a qualification at RQF Level 1 or above, where the school is not an educational establishment under copyright law; that policy covers the PRS share only. For a recording of the show given or sold to families on DVD or another physical copy, PRS for Music's Limited Manufacture licence, as its page described it in April 2026, covers both the songs and the recordings for up to 1,000 copies, with a limit of 250 for PPL's recordings. These are the two bodies' own policies, and they cover the UK. A studio's licence for its own premises is covered on our page for class studios.