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Events Industry Forum publishes welfare guide for live shows

By | Published on Friday 30 October 2015

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A new guide to providing welfare services at live events has been published. Which, I admit, does sound like the dullest read in the history of reading. But people do like to think that their lost property might turn up somewhere after they drunkenly drop it in a puddle, don’t they? So is it really that boring? Yes, it is. But it’s important, OK?

The guide – which includes advice on a variety of procedures organisers of large events should have in place, covering everything “from drug problems and distress to lost people and property” – is published by the Events Industry Forum and written by welfare specialist Penny Mellor. It contains both guidance and downloadable forms that can be used in providing relevant services. So at least that’s something you don’t have to sort out yourself.

Apparently no one has thought to put this information in one place before, and it’s hoped that doing so now will help to establish more consistency across events. It will be made available for free to subscribers to the EIF’s Purple Guide, more details on which you can find here.



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