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Report of the Pilot Research Project on Children Working in Cultural and Artistic Activities
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Arranging physical environments so as not to have any negative impact on children (hygiene
and safety, not too hot and not too cold, etc.),
Allowing no compromise on the basic needs of the child (nutrition, sleep, rest, play etc.),
With regards to child development;
Ensuring that candidate child actors take training in acting with due attention to their personal
development,
Acting in child-centred manner as long as child actors are employed,
Ensuring that all people in working environments behave sensitive in their communication
with child actors,
Organizing for casting agencies and producers a process of selection and preparation observing
child rights and avoiding any child exploitation/abuse,
Never letting children involved in scenes that can cause trauma,
Having scripts and programme content prepared as sensitive to child development,
Assigning roles and jobs appropriate to the age and development level of the child concerned,
Arranging set work in a manner not to interfere with child’s education and schooling,
Making sure that child actor’s family is always present in the set throughout shooting,
Apart from acting coach, ensuring the presence of a group of professionals in the same
environment (child psychologist, child psychiatrist, child development specialist, guide and
psychological counsellor, social worker),
With regards to implementation and monitoring of the above mentioned regulation;
Having working environments and conditions of child actors inspected by labour and social
security inspectors and social development specialists,
Checking the fulfi lment of responsibilities by families and legal representatives to protect
child actors within the framework of legislative arrangements,
Building inspection mechanisms with constructive and dissuading provisions,
Having the RTÜK examine the content of programmes and commercials as well as conditions
of children working in these in the light of universally accepted broadcasting principles,
Organizing child actors in trade unions to protect their working rights (parallel to amendments
in the labour code to regulate the working conditions of child actors, there is also need to
modify the trade union law to make union membership possible for children).
With regards to legislative arrangements concerning children working in cultural and artistic activities:
Establishing a commission that would regularly oversee the rights of children engaged in
cultural and artistic activities and their families, working conditions and environments, roles
assigned to child actors and content of scripts (this commission should include professionals
such as child development specialists, child psychologist and child psychiatrists),