Our diversity commitments

Diversity and inclusion is a creative imperative for the BBC. We have pledged to hardwire diversity into everything we do, both internally and in the way we work with programme makers. We want the stories we tell and the people who make them to reflect the lives of all our audiences across the UK. To achieve this we must make a positive and lasting impact on diversity across the whole broadcast industry, as well as continue to prioritise this change ourselves.

To help achieve these ambitions we have committed to the following:

• Spend a minimum of £80 million per year of our overall commissioning budget across television and radio on diverse content that meets our creative diversity criteria. Crucially this investment will focus on programmes where diverse portrayal, topics and storytelling on-screen are aligned with stronger representation within the company’s leadership and senior production roles, to ensure that the stories told are authentically reflective of audiences across the UK.
• Grow off-screen representation by asking all our producers to ensure 25% of their production team are from underrepresented groups and adopt our inclusive production principles to foster an inclusive culture all our productions
• Improve the representation of Deaf, disabled and neurodivergent people in Network television

Find further information about what we are doing and how we can help our producers to achieve this on the pages below.

Other requirements

We require all our suppliers to have a diversity and inclusion policy in place. A template for this is available on the Creative Diversity Network website. We also expect all content makers to adhere the BBC diversity commissioning code of practice and comply with current anti-discrimination and data protection legislation. Productions must identify an individual within each production company to be responsible for delivering against their diversity objectives.

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