to a teenager for explicit photos. the bbc has released new details of its investigation into the claims. it says just two attempts were made over several weeks to contact the family concerned. the bbc s director general tim davie confirmed that the unnamed presenter was not spoken to about the issue until seven weeks after the initial complaint when new information had emerged. he also conceded, that the allegations had been clearly damaging . the bbc has been asked to pause its investigation by police while they make further inquiries. on may 18th, the complainant went to a bbc building to make the initial allegation. the following day, the complaint was assessed by the bbc s corporate investigations team. that team decided that the complaint did not include an allegation of criminality, but nonetheless merited further investigation. also on may 19th, the bbc says it emailed the complainant but received no response. untiljune 6th when the bbc says it made a phone call to t
the concerns of duty of care, privacy, all those things i ve talked about, i don t think you take that complaint direct to a presenter. if you just work that through, if anything that comes through or anything that hasn t been verified just gets brought in front of someone, i would say it s important at that point to validate that, to have not just the audience services team but the specialists talk to that individual, understand their concerns and go through that process. but there were only two attempts made to contact the family, one by e mail, one by phone. does that seem fine to you? i think that s a fair question and as director general i want to look at a couple of things. the first thing is, immediately, do we raise the red flag quickly enough on complaints of this nature? and second is protocol there will be learnings from this case.
to a teenager for explicit photos. the bbc has released new details of its investigation into the claims. it says just two attempts were made over several weeks to contact the family concerned. the bbc s director general tim davie confirmed that the unnamed presenter was not spoken to about the issue until seven weeks after the initial complaint when new information had emerged. he also conceded, that the allegations had been clearly damaging . the bbc has been asked to pause its investigation by police while they make further inquiries. on may 18th, the complainant went to a bbc building to make the initial allegation. the following day, the complaint was assessed by the bbc s corporate investigations team. that team decided that the complaint did not include an allegation of criminality, but nonetheless merited further investigation. also on may 19th, the bbc says it emailed the complainant but
we re in a strange situation he has not been named, but everyone in this building knows who it is and there are an awful lot of people who you also have a duty of care to, male presenters on air, who are having to go on air to say that it s not them. it s not a sustainable situation. it s a difficult and complex situation and we re trying to calmly and judiciously navigate our way through quite difficult circumstances, whereas i said you ve got to balance duty of care issues, privacy issues. i think i would restate that it is absolutely not the right thing to be doing, to speculate, some of the malicious stuff online. understood. i would condemn that, but i have to make those calls, as director general, in a balanced manner. but the situation isn t sustainable, is it? we need to let the police do their work in terms of seeking evidence and further activity. have there been any other
these are clearly damaging to the bbc. it s not a good situation. but i think there are things as director general i care deeply about. one is the ability for our newsroom to report independently without fear or favour and i newsroom to report independently without fear orfavour and i made the case today, and you mentioned the case today, and you mentioned the annual report, 71% of the world doesn t even have a free press, a totally free press, so i think the bbc, going by the story absolutely independently, maintains strong levels of trust and also then organisationally we are doing the right thing and we are seen to do the right thing and, under my leadership, we will absolutely be as transparent as we can. you leadership, we will absolutely be as transparent as we can. transparent as we can. you could arc ue transparent as we can. you could ara ue it transparent as we can. you could argue it would transparent as we can. you could argue it would be transparent as we can. you cou