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“Powerful individuals” at the BBC make the life of its colleagues “unbearable”, according to the chairman of the company after a review of its workplace culture.

The independent report that is triggered by which Huw Edwards The scandal, which led to a similar review by Change Associates, of the same management consultancy, which led to a similar review after the Jimmy Savile scandal.

Samir Shah, chairman of BBC, told the employees before the report of the report on Monday morning: “There is a minority of people whose behavior is simply not acceptable. And there are still places where powerful people – on and outside the screen – can abuse this power to make life unbearable for their colleagues.”

He said the report made recommendations to “prioritize the measures before changes in procedures” and “deep -seated problems”, including the employees who do not feel safe enough to comment.

Mr. Shah added: “In the end it is very simple: If you are a person who is ready to abuse or beat power or behave badly, there is no place for you at the BBC.”

While the review, which heard from around 2,500 employees and freelancers from 19 different countries, did not find any evidence of a toxic culture within the companySome employees said there were “a minority of people at the BBC – both in and in the air – which could behave unacceptable without being addressed”.

The report states: “Even if you are small, your behavior creates great waves that have a negative impact on the culture and external reputation of the BBC.”

It is said that these people are “distributed in different functions and departments about the organization” and “often in positions in which power could be abused”.

While no specific names were mentioned in the report, it was found that “some names were mentioned several times”.

Some considered “indispensable”

An example of bad behavior was an “untouchable” moderator that “was required for exceptionally inappropriate language”. While “a report was created” and sanctions were promised, a senior manager who was in the room at the time of the incident was “perceived as a deletion so as not to rock the boat”.

It said that a blind could behave poorly, “if the productions were awarded a pronounced or large audience, with some” difficult “moderators later” artificial “by BBC managers.

The report further warned that the company “in the worst case”, “such people” rewarded it by providing little or no consequence of their actions “.

It was recognized that some of those who showed “unacceptable behavior” were perceived as “indispensable” for the company and that the BBC “tolerated” the problem by “moving potentially annoying problems” on formal complaint without appropriate due diligence.

It also means that it punished them unfair by raising the “in the dark about progress and results”.

“Laying and ashamed”

The power weight between “talent” and “crew” was raised, with a report of the reports said: “The wage difference between a producer and a flagship program is huge. The actual and perceived value of the moderator for the BBC compared to the BBC's BBC.

And while the report said that many of the moderators with whom they spoke to “lay and ashamed to be associated with people who are in the press because of their behavioral offense,” it was also the tendency to treat tendency with children's gloves.

A moderator said: “As the so -called talent, I am aware that nobody wants to annoy me, laugh at jokes, upset around me, don't do enough for me – it's wrong and unnecessary, and I can see how some would expect over time.”

The BBC board has completely accepted the report and its results, as did the BBC management.

The General Director of BBC, Tim Davie, described the report “an important moment for the BBC and the broader industry”.

He said the company would implement the recommendations “at speed” and make sure that the BBC values ​​”are used by the entire organization every day”.

The measures taken include:

• An increased code of conduct with specific guidelines for on-air moderators
• A more robust disciplinary guideline with updated examples of misconduct and clear consequences
• All television production partners must meet the industrial industries independent of the Creative Independent Standards Authority (CIISA)
• A new “Call it out” campaign to promote positive behavior, enable informal solution and to challenge bad behavior
• Delete promises for everyone who undresses and the BBC expected what you can expect

Further measures are the succession planning for the most high -ranking roles in the air, a new “solution held Helpline”, more training for managers and clearer behavioral expectations for freelancers.

A difficult year for the BBC

The BBC was put under pressure after a series of complaints against some of its top talents in the past 12 months.

In September, Edwards, who was the main actor of the BBC, was. owed to three cases to “take” indecent pictures of children. He received a six -month prison sentence and will be in the register of sex offenders for seven years.

At the beginning of this month, after a CPS evaluation, Russell Brand was charged with rape and sexual assault.

Brand, which worked for BBC Radio 2 and 6 music between 2006 and 2008, denies all allegations against him and says that all of his sexual encounters were mutually acceptable.

The BBC also apologized in January after a review found that it had “not taken any reasonable measures” Former radio 1 DJ Tim Westwood Follow claims of “bullying and misogynistic behavior”. Westwood denied the allegations.

Other allegations of misconduct against BBC talents are accusations of A Toxic surroundings come on strictly dance And the fire of the one show presenter Jermain Jenas after him Admittedly, to send inappropriate messages to female colleagues.

And at the end of last year, Gregg Wallace After several historical allegations of misconduct, his presentation role with master chief returned.

Wallace's lawyers said that it was “completely wrong that he behaved on sexually harassing nature”. Wallace has said since then that he was looking for “room for healing”.