We've met quite a few media freelances recently who operate through an agency to get work and receive payment.
As the rules about employment status and taxation for agency workers changed this April (2014) I thought it might be useful to link to HMRC's guidance, neatly encapsulated (!) in 6 pages of PDF.
It's difficult to reduce this sort of thing to a one-liner, but in short if your work is unsupervised or you can send someone else along in your place you might be able to be self-employed and still get work through an agency. Otherwise it's more likely that the agency will have to treat you as an employee, and take off tax and national insurance before they pay you.
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