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BBC Outlines Plans to Accelerate Diverse Representation on and off Screen
BBC, December 3, 2020
The work builds on the Creative Diversity Commitments made earlier in the year, and will be supported by the Creative Diversity Unit, under June Sarpong, the BBC’s first Director of Creative Diversity.
Among the plans, which will feature in a wide ranging report published next week, the BBC is announcing:
A new Disability Content Panel made up of creatives with a lived experience of disability from inside and outside of the BBC who will work with the BBC’s Creative Diversity Unit to support authentic portrayal in the BBC’s output