EXCLUSIVE: Amid the UK TV industry’s push to improve workplace conditions, the BBC is set to meet with leading industry bodies Pact, BFI and Equity to work out how its new anti-bullying guide…
The drive for positive change in the business is throwing up questions and concerns over implementation and UK trade body Pact is currently in talks with the BBC over whether these new guidelines, which were forged in the wake of theThe BBC is due to meet with other UK bodies such as actors’ union Equity, The Film & TV Charity and the BFI over the coming weeks to “work out what the best next steps are as an industry to encourage best practice in a way that is consistent, efficient and...
“We are overwhelmed with admin,” this source told Deadline. “The BBC is passing the buck to production companies and bombarding them in an already stretched and exhausting, lacking-in-resources environment.” “Everyone wants to make sure we have a safe and healthy working environment – we have our own bullying and harassment guidelines we produced some time ago – but you have to be clear about where the responsibility lies,” added McVay, whose member base is comprised of hundreds of UK producers.
“As much as broadcasters talk about wanting to eliminate issues with bullying, a lot of the problem comes from these same broadcasters putting the indies under unrealistic amounts of pressure,” they went on to say.
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