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There's a clear focus on senior managers in the BBC's new diversity targets, revealed in the Annual Report. The old target for "Black and Minority Ethnic" managers, set under Mark Thompson, was 7%, to be reached by December 2012. That was missed, by 0.1%.  The new target, to be reached by the end of 2017 is 10% (of the "wider senior leadership group").  Recent departures include Zarin Patel, Pat Younge and Sanjay Nazerali...

The disabled target for all staff was 5.5% by December 2012, and as this blog has been pointing out, that was a bigger miss - 3.8% achieved. So the overall target for 2017 has actually been lowered, to 5.4% - but the stretch is for senior managers - 10% of that "senior leadership group" - from a current base of around 3.2%.