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Image: Chris McCausland and Dianne Buswell, winners of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ One's Strictly Come Dancing (ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Studios/ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ One)

£243m spent on diverse content

• £243m of existing TV and Radio commissioning budgets spent on content qualifying under the creative diversity criteria from 2021 to 2024. Far exceeding our initial commitment to spend £112 million in three years.

TV Access Project

• Partnership of ten UK broadcasters and streamers to create a shift in the industry for deaf, disabled and/or neurodivergent inclusion on and off screen. In 2023/24 over 30 ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ productions had Access Coordinators and we announced new access funding protocols for all productions.

Accessibility for audiences

• Significant strides to ensure our content is accessible with subtitles, audio-description or British Sign Language e.g. Strictly Come Dancing, Doctor Who and Glastonbury.

Achieved a gender balanced organisation in February 2023

9.7% representation in off-screen disability

• Increased from 5.8% in March 2020.

ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Extend Relaunched

• ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Extend – our flagship programme to ring-fence roles, in line with the Equality Act 2010, for disabled people, which can include those who identify as deaf and/or neurodivergent

11,000 members in staff networks

• 11,000 members, collectively, of our staff networks and community groups

ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Enigma

• Launched ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Enigma, our staff network for neurodivergent people at the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½.

2,000+ people participated in Hot Shoes or 80/20

• Over 2,000 people have now participated in our Hot Shoes or 80/20 programmes which give our people exposure and experience of working in other teams across the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½.
• 1,300 Early Careers and Staff Apprentices have started on their scheme since 2021. Our award winning Early Careers Apprentices scheme boasts an outstanding achievement rate of 89% and attracted 27,000 applicants last year.
• Launched the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Leader Index to hold leaders to account for diversity, inclusion and engagement of their teams.

82% of productions met diverse production team target

• In 2023/24, 82% of productions met our 20% diverse production teams target, showing a year-on-year increase across disability, ethnicity and socio-economic diversity captured through End of Production reporting.