The BBC's Management of Risk

HC 643, Sixty-sixth Report of Session 2006-07 - Report, Together with Formal Minutes, Oral and Written Evidence

Author:

House of Commons - Committee of Public Accounts

Publisher:

TSO (The Stationery Office)

Risk comes in different forms, from the risk of damaging the Corporation's reputation 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)' sets out a number of recommendations on dealing with risk, and what the BBC's Executive Board should implement. The report follows on from a National Audit Office report on the subject, available to download below.

Findings and recommendations include:

• 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 a live phone-in competition on Blue Peter. This 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.

Extent	32 pages	ISBN	9780215037640
Size	A4	Price	£10.00
Binding	Paperback	Published	06 Dec 2007
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