BBC Trust

On 23 June 2014, the BBC Trust held the third in its series of impartiality seminars, this time focusing on the BBC's Arts coverage.

An invited audience including BBC staff and external interested guests and speakers discussed a range of subjects related to impartiality and the BBC’s Arts coverage. BBC Trustee for England and Chair of the Trust’s Editorial Standards Committee, Alison Hastings, has written on the discussion that took place and a full list of attendees has also been published below.

The Trust’s impartiality seminars were first introduced in 2011 to strengthen the Trust’s work in ensuring that the BBC’s standards of impartiality were being met.

Unlike the existing impartiality reviews carried out by the Trust, they are not based on reviews of BBC output. Instead they facilitate a discussion to enable the BBC to consider how to approach current and topical issues, which pose difficulties for programme makers, with due impartiality.