A framework for changing the system around the child.
Safer environments.Stronger childhoods.Better stories.
Supporting young performers makes stronger productions.
Good Ship brings specialized child safety expertise and support to the creative process - helping teams navigate the unique considerations of working with children with confidence, clarity and care.
We change the environment, not the child.
Good Ship supports & strengthens the system so minors can participate safely, meaningfully & creatively.
The result
A child-centred, trauma-informed environment where adults hold responsibility for safety and minors can thrive.
Children experience the world differently from adults, and professional productions are no exception. When we build an understanding of their needs into the way we work, we can make an enormous difference to a young performer's experience — while making the process better for everyone involved.
Every production brings together specialists. Children deserve one, too.
From intimacy coordinators to stunt professionals, productions rely on specialized expertise to support complex creative work. Good Ship brings that same intentionality to the experience of minor performers- with a dedicated professional whose focus is their safety and wellbeing.
Build safety into the production — not around a problem after it happens.
Find out moreChild Safety & Wellbeing can begin before a young performer ever walks onto a set or into a rehearsal room.
We can enter at any point
Casting
Pre-production
Rehearsal
On set / performance
Wrap & beyond
Production practice, standards and frameworks, training, industry advocacy, and research and knowledge mobilization.
Find out more- Production
- Creative team
- Family
- Material
- Working environment
- Relationships
- Expectations
- Power dynamics
The framework addresses areas including:
- production-specific risk assessment
- child development
- safeguarding and abuse prevention
- psychological and emotional safety
- power, consent and ongoing assent
- sensitive and potentially traumatic material
- family and production dynamics
- preparation and communication
- independent advocacy
- escalation and accountability
- practitioner roles, boundaries and competencies
- rehearsal, production and wrap
The framework will continue to evolve through evidence, consultation, practice and evaluation.
Making child safety concrete.
Give the minor a voice.
Make responsibility clear.
Build safeguards into the production.
Maggie Blake is a Child Safety & Wellbeing Consultant working in film, television and theatre. A former professional child performer with more than a decade of experience in child development and abuse prevention, she now works inside productions to help build safer systems around young performers.
Safer environments.Stronger childhoods.Better stories.
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