Trust approves the BBC’s guidelines for its coverage of May 2016 elections

Date: 11.03.2016     Last updated: 11.03.2016 at 11.53

The Trust has approved final BBC’s Election Guidelines for elections taking place in May 2016, following an eight week public consultation.

The guidelines, which will sit alongside the BBC’s main editorial guidelines, are intended to act as a framework to ensure that journalists and content makers can operate in as free and creative an environment as possible while delivering to audiences impartial, independent reporting.

The guidelines are now available on the BBC’s Editorial Guidelines website.  The findings of the Trust’s public consultation can be found here.