HETV Clearances Training Programme (United Kingdom)

Training for the UK high-end and unscripted TV industry is supported by the ScreenSkills High-end TV Skills Fund and ScreenSkills Unscripted TV Skills Fund (with contributions from productions companies, broadcasters and SVoDs in the UK).

The High-end TV Skills Fund and ScreenSkills Unscripted TV Skills Fund are looking for an organisation or individual/s who can design and run a Clearances training programme for 40 people working in HETV and 6-8 people in unscripted TV in Northern Ireland.

Funding Information

• They are looking for bids of up to £23,000 for the resource creation, training and management of this programme.

Participant Aims

• The training should be for a minimum of 40 participants in HETV and 6-8 participants in unscripted TV, who live and/or work in Northern Ireland and have clearance responsibilities in HETV or unscripted TV eg. art department, locations, camera operators, production managers, production co-ordinators, assistant producers and post production co-ordinators.
• The following are the minimum diversity aims for this programme:
  • 100% of beneficiaries living and/or working in Northern Ireland
  • 20% from minority ethnic groups (ethnicity aim)
  • 50% women (gender aim)
  • 10% disability (disability aim)
  • 10% LGBT (sexual orientation and gender identity aim)
• ScreenSkills aims to go beyond legal diversity requirements and considers additional measures of inclusivity, including:
  • employment status
  • whether a person is returning to work following leave
  • geographical location
  • socio-economic background.
• Providing access to diverse crew and talent is key to the delivery objectives. All trainers and companies delivering programmes that are funded by the High-end TV and Unscripted TV Skills Funds must meet the identified diversity requirements. If they fail to do so, they must show robust evidence of why a target has not been met. If diversity targets are not met, the project could be at risk of losing funding.

Key Requirements

• The applicant must design, manage, market, recruit and deliver a Clearances training programme for 40 HETV and 6-8 Unscripted professionals working and/or living in Northern Ireland.
• The programme should cover the following:
  • procedure
  • talent and clearances of existing copyright (from early development through to production).
  • neg checks
  • copyright clearances – the basics and exceptions and how to source the origin of creative pieces, especially when this involves international works
  • archive footage clearances
  • music clearances
  • brand clearances
  • structuring & tracking detailed clearance logs
  • reviewing dailies for any non-cleared items (last-minute additions on set)
  • post production – final delivery

Who can apply?

• ScreenSkills welcomes applications from individuals, partnerships or organisations that have a proven track record of delivering successful industry-standard training projects.
• They particularly welcome applications from providers based in the UK nations and regions, including partnerships between organisations, specialist clearance companies who work in HETV and/or unscripted, in partnership with freelancers who have had clearance responsibilities in high-end and and unscripted television.
• The successful applicant will need to demonstrate their understanding of HETV and and unscripted training requirements, including the diversity challenges facing the industry and must clearly demonstrate that they have the resources to track the career progression of participants beyond the life of the programme.
• If applicants are already delivering similar training and can expand their offer to include the scope, they are also welcomed to apply.
• Applicants must:
  • demonstrate evidence of appropriate, recent engagement with the industry in the design and delivery of the programme
  • meet critical diversity targets as outlined in this tender, including:
    • making reasonable adjustments to the training (whether face-to-face, content or online and including during the application process) to make it accessible to a diverse audience – they will ask for evidence of your approach and implementation.
    • having an equality policy in place as an employer
    • having a monitoring system in place to track the diversity of the delegates,
    • providing diversity and inclusivity training to facilitators.
  • gather long-term destination data from the delegates to prove impact of training utilising the ScreenSkills monitoring questionnaire.
  • develop a clear structure for the training, ensuring that it is outcome focused.
  • discuss and agree with those taking part in the programme that they will provide feedback on the training if requested which would include providing ScreenSkills with a quote on their experience on the training.

For more information, visit ScreenSkills.