Classification

Here's a new target from BBC Director General Tim Davy. "By 2027 we want 25% of our staff to come from a lower socio-economic background." 

The BBC is thought to be the first media organisation in the UK to set such a target, which was first promised for July 2021.  It'll be tricky; in the most recent internal surveys, only 80% of existing staff were happy to share their 'school type', which is not always a guide to socio-economic background. On sharing class, there was 'no data' or 'prefer not to say' returns for 21.5% of UK public service staff.  21.2% were prepared to say 'Working  Class/Low socio-economic'; just 7.7% had experience of 'free school meals'.