Mark Jermin Management, a prominent UK children’s talent agency, has removed wording from some contracts that made representation conditional on clients continuing to train at its sister stage school. The clause conflicts with the agency’s previous denial that representation had ever depended on buying training services, and raises potential concerns under UK rules designed to prevent agencies from tying work-finding services to paid extras.

A leaked 2025 contract said offers to people scouted through Mark Jermin classes or events were conditional on continued training, so the agency could monitor their development. MJM said the wording appeared in only a small number of contracts, was merely a recommendation and was never enforced; it is being removed during an external review. Three agency-law specialists told Deadline the clause called the agency’s denial into question, with one describing it as a clear breach of Regulation 5 of the 2003 Employment Agencies regulations.