Summary
This Report
‘The BBC's management of risk’
(HC 643) makes recommendations on dealing with a variety of risk factors,
from damage to the Corporation's reputation to personal risk to staff.
Risk comes in different forms, from the risk of damaging the
reputation of the Corporation as a public service broadcaster to personal risk
staff can experience when reporting from dangerous parts of the world.
‘The BBC's management of risk’
(HC 643) from the Committee of Public Accounts sets out a number of
recommendations for the BBC on dealing with risk and highlights measures that
the BBC's Executive Board are advised to implement.
Among the
recommendations are:
- BBC guidance needs a clearer delineation of
responsibilities for risk management
- The main themes of risk
management are not aligned with corporate objectives
- The BBC should
update its assessments of the risks of working in hostile environments, as the
abduction of journalist Alan Johnson showed
- By failing to comply with
its own Broadcasting Code, the BBC was fined by Ofcom over the live phone-in
competition on Blue Peter, and illustrates that some programme makers are
ignoring the BBC's own editorial guidelines, exposing the corporation to
reputational risk
- The BBC has not related its risk to corporate
objectives or assigned all risks to named owners
- BBC managers at all
levels are not sufficiently engaged in the management of risk
- There is
still no fully satisfactory regime under which the BBC is accountable to
Parliament for the value for money with which it spends licence fee payers
money.
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