In March 2024 we set out three essential roles that the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ can play for our democracy, our creative economy, and our society. These are to pursue truth with no agenda, back homegrown storytelling, and bring people together.
Our aim is to prioritise these three roles and deliver a ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ that is more relevant, universally used, and offers outstanding value to all audiences. A big part of this is creating a place that attracts the best people and enables them to do their best work.
We want the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ to be a uniquely creative, innovative and inclusive organisation, admired across the world and living its values every day. So, diversity, inclusion and belonging matter at the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½, and we know it matters to our audiences. We must serve everyone, whoever and wherever they are and represent and portray the many diverse communities across the UK.
In 2021, we published a three-year diversity and inclusion plan, and in the same year we rolled out our first ever creative diversity commitments. We have come a long way since then and I am proud of what we have achieved.
We have doubled our committed spend on diverse content, increased the number of women in the workforce so we are at gender parity, and we have increased representation of Black, Asian and minority ethnic staff across the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½. But there remains much more to do, particularly around disability.
We must also continue to build an inclusive culture where everyone feels empowered to be themselves in work. This will help generate the best ideas, and improve the way we do things. Our diversity and inclusion work is adapting and evolving to reflect our changing focus. It’s a challenge I know teams are embracing and one that is driving us to find exciting new approaches and solutions.
For the first time, we are bringing together our workforce diversity plans and our creative diversity plans into one strategy. This document sets out how we intend to go further and faster to build a ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ that is not only truly representative of all the audiences we serve, but an organisation where everyone feels they belong. Our new plans will ensure that, whether you are a member of the audience, a production partner, or an employee, the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ is for you.
Tim Davie
Director-General
| Workforce: • Reflect our audiences in our workforce • Create inclusive and accessible working environments • Seek insights from our colleagues to improve the way we work |
Creative: • Drive representation in our content on and off air • Build an inclusive culture on each production • Strengthen and build on our existing industry partnerships |
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