Criticism of former creative director’s role at Kids Company prompts modern guidelines that include ‘potential for reputational embarrassment or damage’ The BBC has drawn up modern guidelines designed to stop the external interests of senior managers from embarrassing the corporation in the wake of the row over Alan Yentob’s chairmanship of Kids Company. The former BBC creative director resigned from his role in December,saying media coverage of his role as chair of Kids Company had become a serious distraction”. The BBC Trust decided not to pursue an investigation into Yentob, who had been accused of interfering in BBC reporting of the collapse of Kids Company, and but asked the corporation to examine its guidelines. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com