{"id":75767,"date":"2025-08-18T15:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T15:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/75767\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T15:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T15:57:09","slug":"edinburgh-tv-foundation-reveals-class-action-plan-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/75767\/","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh TV Foundation reveals class action plan | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Edinburgh TV Foundation is to offer incentives to broadcasters and indies if they implement the newly devised class action recommendations at their organisations.<\/p>\n<p>The aim of the \u2018Class Confident Actions\u2019 scheme is to improve inclusivity for working class creatives in the industry and follows from James Graham\u2019s MacTaggart lecture at last year\u2019s Edinburgh TV Festival, which called for better representation of the socioeconomic group in TV.<\/p>\n<p>The Class Confident Actions include putting class on the agenda of a company\u2019s culture and leadership; bringing back job interviews in recruitment; levelling the playing field by paying the real living wage for entry level roles, at the very least; and supporting the next moves of staff with potentially longer contracts and clear and fair appraisals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"picture\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"James Graham MacTaggart (2)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1457495_jamesgrahammactaggart2_38156.jpg\"  loading=\"eager\" class=\"lazyloaded\" width=\"8151\" height=\"5434\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Having already implemented Impact Bursaries this year \u2013 allowing TV professionals from working class backgrounds to attend this week\u2019s TV Festival \u2013 the TV Foundation will now offer special exclusive rates for TV Festival passes and awards entries from 2026 for companies promoting best practice.<\/p>\n<p>Class Confident Actions will also be added to the judging criteria for awards such as the Indie Impact Award in the group\u2019s annual New Voice Awards.<\/p>\n<p>A signing up process will follow ahead of next year\u2019s Festival ticket sales launch. The TV Foundation is currently asking\u00a0organisations to tell them how they\u2019re starting improving their processes\u00a0to gather insight into best practice.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Further actions include monitoring representation in senior leadership and breaking working class stereotypes on screen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Edinburgh TV Foundation is to offer incentives to broadcasters and indies if they implement the newly devised&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-75767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}