has created seven new assistant commissioner roles with a focus on growing representation from the

the roles will be in factual, co-funded by the Nations, and one will be in

factual roles will be employed by both Network and Nations commissioning teams, and work across

animation role will report into Kate Morton, head of BBC children’s commissioning and

two new London-based assistant commissioner roles will focus on hiring deaf, disabled and/or neurodivergent

the roles will be in unscripted, and one will be in scripted

BBC director of unscripted, said: “These new roles demonstrate our commitment to growing and developing

play an important role in spotting and nurturing ideas that will bring viewers high impact

to find and nurture talent from a wider base and to create exciting opportunities within

a key part of our strategy and an exciting animation community from Northern Ireland, this