Always a major national event, now in its 33rd year having raised more than £600 million, Children in Need remains a live television and radio broadcast presenting many studio challenges. How best to effectively manage the expected young audience driven by top boy band One Direction being part of the long programme guest list, those with tickets plus the many hundreds of other fans without tickets who would attend the studio gate for sight of their favourites stars.

Following the broadcast, (which once again broke the fund raising record) the ARC MSCP3 performance was perceived by all as an important element of additional security on the night.

Roger Edwards ARC’s Commercial Director said by providing a soft deterrent with the MSCP3 to those wishing to gain access to the studio site without tickets and offering increased safety to all attending and working on the programme the objectives were more than achieved. Following this television studio first, the ARC Management is looking forward to further television studio audience use, adding to the list of other activities where they currently offer increased security and crowd profiling to VIP Events, contentious public meetings and wide ranging large scale public events where increased crowd safety is an important part of the plan.