£80m per year | BBC to invest heavily in diversity projects & raise staff representation

The BBC has announced it is to invest £80 million annually in creative diversity projects and raise representation targets in production teams from 20% to 25%.

As reported by PA, the move comes after a review by Sir Lenny Henry Centre for Media Diversity made a number of recommendations to the corporation.

The centre’s recommendations included publishing annual intersectional analysis, “urgent large-scale intervention” to create “transformative inclusion” in the industry for people with disability, and the abolition of catch-all terms and vocabulary for ethnicity.

The BBC says its investment will aim to “ensure that the stories told on-air are authentically reflective of audiences across the UK”.