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Highlights on-screen A year on from launching our Diversity Acceleration Plan, we’ve seen a increase in lead roles filled by Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic talent onscreen.
ITV has commissioned exciting projects written by Sir Lenny Henry (Three Little Birds), Abby Ajayi (Riches) and Maya Sondhi (DI Ray).
On-screen highlights included Peckham’s Finest, Moneyball, Stephen, Grace, The Tower, and Coronation Street storylines tackling unconscious bias and racism.
Peckham’s Finest Highlights off-screen In production, we completed the first round of our Step Up 60 initiative, creating 62 opportunities for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic talent to secure their first ITV senior editorial and production roles.
Step Up the support to become a fully fledged Producer whilst also supporting me in places where I lacked experience.
ITV marked Black History Month with a new campaign, internal events, and high-profile documentaries with leading talent.
This year’s season also saw the return of TV’s first comedy panel show about Black History, as well as awarenessraising strands across Daytime programmes, and curated collections on ITV Hub and Britbox, plus specially commissioned content for digital platforms.
will.i.am: The Blackprint, Ashley Banjo: Britain in Black and White and Charlene White: Empire’s Child, alongside return of our Black History panel show “Sorry, I Didn’t Know”.
The supporting brand campaign showcased Black History in the making, paying tribute to role models from sport, music and science, who inspire a new generation of young people.
ITV’s Black History ident featured across our channels, created by Illustrator Kingsley Nebechi in collaboration with Mini Nwosu, Civil Engineer.
A three-part digital marketing series featured experiences of two influential figures in the same field from different generations – called Black History Month: The Bridge.
Finally, our Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic staff network, ITV Embrace, hosted various internal events including an In Conversation with Munroe Bergdorf, Virtual Soca Classes and a “Let’s Talk Afro Hair” panel.
We have on-screen and 46.9% representation off-screen in production teams.
The FTSE 100 for female representation in our combined Executive Committee and direct report roles.
We’re continuing to work towards female representation across ITV.
Highlights on-screen New dramas including Finding Alice, The Tower, Angela Black, and Hollington Drive saw strong female lead roles.
Highlights off-screen ITV is building a pipeline to recruit and develop women at all levels.
Women are well represented in our entrylevel Apprentice Scheme (our ITV Studios Production Trainee Scheme (82%).
The Career Returners Programme offers experienced professionals the opportunity to return to careers after an extended break, while the High Potential Leadership Programme accelerates the development of talented colleagues for senior positions.
We also encourage secondment opportunities to identify senior successors from underrepresented groups.
Many areas of ITV are at almost better, but we’re continuing to focus on key creative roles such as Drama writers and directors, where women remain underrepresented.
Working with Screenskills and Directors UK, we also support the Drama Directors Programme by providing placements for women.
Menopause Policy This year ITV launched a menopause policy, following a programme of awareness-raising discussion sessions run internally by ITV’s Women’s Network.
We’re one of the first broadcasters to do so, and announced the policy publicly on Loose Women.
We have people on-screen and 4.5% representation offscreen in production teams.
In our workforce, representation of disabled staff and those with a long-term health condition is at of all colleagues, 9% of managers and 10.8% of SLT.
We have much further to go, and the new commitments in our Diversity Acceleration Plan set out how we are prioritising disability inclusion.
Katie Piper, who was in ITV’s Invisible Disabilities campaign, joined as a regular Loose Women panellist.
Highlights off-screen We launched Creating Disability Inclusion training for leaders and managers, educating colleagues about the social model of disability, and helping ensure accessibility is built into everything we do.
To better support disabled talent and improve how disabled people’s stories are told on screen, we ran Disability Portrayal Training for our commissioning team and some ITV Studios and News colleagues.
For disabled staff and new joiners, we introduced Disability Access Passports to help colleagues discuss their access requirements, adjustments and personalisations with their managers and colleagues.
scheme ITV has been running since giving writers from underrepresented groups the chance to develop their skills by creating gripping stories for Coronation Street or Emmerdale, before writing a trial script for the show.
Some of my earliest memories are of watching Coronation Street with my family – it’s a show that holds a special place in my heart.
The level of commitment Corrie and ITV give to the ‘Original Voices’ opportunity is wonderful.
Wheelchairs and cobbles are normally a bad combination, but thanks to the efforts of everyone at ITV those famous cobbles are wonderfully accessible to all.
The challenge: disabled, with invisible disabilities often overlooked.
Research commissioned by ITV found that less than a third of the UK population are aware of the levels of disability in the UK and only those with a disability feel confident about telling people.
The campaign: Developed in partnership with Scope, and devised by ITV Creative, Invisible Disabilities featured famous faces powerfully highlighting that one in five of us is disabled, and just because you can’t see it, it doesn’t mean it’s not there.
The ad encourages viewers to learn more at itv.com/disability, and see testimonials from members of ITV’s internal disability staff network, ITV Able, about their own experiences.
The campaign followed a special Tonight programme on the subject.
LGBT+ PEOPLE TARGET representation of LGBT+ people onscreen, off-screen, and within our workforce by the end of 2022. 2021 RESULTS Our LGBT+ target combines sexual orientation and gender identity, but we measure and report these separately.
We’ve surpassed most of our targets for LGBT+ representation on-screen (LGB+, 1.1% trans), off-screen in production teams (21.3% LGB+), and in our workforce at all colleague and manager levels (8.2% and 7.8% LGB+ staff).
We have further to go to improve LGB+ representation at SLT (off-screen and in our workforce.
was played by Ben Aldridge, a gay actor.
We celebrated ITV Pride Day on-screen with special episodes of Coronation Street and Emmerdale, centring on LGBT+ characters.
In celebration of Pride Month, the ITV Pride network put together an internal campaign “Proud to be more than ITV”, with a series of network events with popular LGBT+ figures.
de-stigmatise the virus, ITV Pride organised a cross-network event with ITN Pride for a discussion with “It’s A Sin” actor, Nathaniel Hall, and Chris Sandford from The National HIV Story Trust.
As part of the ITV Content Delivery team’s #ProudToBe campaign, our colleague Sophie Scott spoke about gender identity and her experience: Throughout my life I’ve felt that I did not conform to the social characteristics that were expected of me, and my gender identity and the way I expressed it shifted with time.
The #MyPride “Letter to my discussion around the struggles and challenges young LGBT+ people can face.
By sharing their deeply personal stories, familiar faces such as Lady Phyll, Dr Ranj, Tia Kofi and Rob Rinder spread the message that Pride is all year.
To support the campaign we also published a range of educational content on digital platforms to help inform parents and peers of young LGBT+ people on how they can help them in coming out and accepting their identity.
In a year as tough as the role of the Networks in supporting and connecting their members becomes even more pivotal, and that’s something that we know our 338 members have really appreciated throughout the year.
Our bigger ambitions remain though, as we work towards making ITV the media employer of choice for disabled talent, driven by our culture of inclusion and representative storytelling.
Helen Stevens, ELT Able Chair Throughout a difficult year not only did the Embrace Network put on events to celebrate occasions in the cultural calendar like South Asian Heritage Month and Black History Month, we also held Big Debate sessions for our network members to come together to discuss racerelated stories in the media and provide support to those affected by them.
We saw a huge growth in network membership this year and we were part of the change to make ITV a more inclusive and diverse place to work.
Sonny Hanley, Embrace The world is changing so fast, at home and work, and time is more pressured than ever.
We’re expected to be superhuman, but many of us mere mortals need conversation and help on how to navigate through it all.
ITV Balance Network has three main objectives: to be a safe space for all colleagues to share stories and experiences of balancing work and home life, to influence and educate appropriate policy across ITV and to deliver an engaging programme of events to prompt meaningful discussions within ITV PLC.
Mark Trinder, ITV Balance The highlight for the Women’s Network in was being able to deliver meaningful events on key topics that affect women in their work and personal lives, such as the menopause, wellbeing, mental health, women’s safety, money, and imposter syndrome.
It was great to partner with ITV Daytime to raise awareness of both breast cancer and bowel cancer, by supporting their “Check and Change” and “No Butts” campaigns.
The second year of the pandemic means that coming together in person has continued to be limited, but the Women’s Network has been brilliant at helping to maintain connections, whilst building confidence and knowledge in areas that are challenging.
Helen Hopkins, Women Building on our work in strength to strength in 2021.
We were incredibly proud to have helped ITV become recognised as one of Britain’s Top Inclusive employers by the British LGBT Awards.
Context 2021 was a pivotal year for climate change.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) declared “code red” for humanity and COPworld’s governments and businesses come together to look for solutions to an ever more alarming crisis that’s disrupting people’s lives around the world.
ITV’s ambition has grown with the scale of the challenge.
We’ve made progress this year across all areas of the business.
From linking the senior team’s remuneration to Climate Action performance and engaging our commercial partners to showcase sustainable products to creating a dedicated Climate Action Week on-screen, ITV is transforming so we are fit to thrive and play a leading role in the transition to a sustainable society.
Carbon Disclosure Project ITV achieved a CDP (Carbon Disclosure Project) rating of A-.
Reducing emissions we control by and those we can influence by 28% by 2030.
conversation for colleagues across ITV, whether that’s how we engage with audiences and commercial partners or how we incorporate climate action into risk management.
to create a sustainable TV and media sector.
the senior team will be linked to performance on Climate Action targets.
Climate Action Delivery Group This quarterly group, chaired by the CFO and COO Chris Kennedy, has oversight of progress against our goals, and is attended by senior leaders from all the main business areas.
Clear accountability ensures we can work collaboratively to drive key decisions and monitor progress.
Supporting ITV’s long-term resilience to the rapidly changing environment is integral to my risk management role, especially given the increase of extreme weather events and far-reaching consequences of transitioning to a low-carbon economy.
I have acted as a facilitator for Climate Scenario Analysis, bringing together expertise from the business, Finance and Social Purpose teams, to better understand the risks ITV may be exposed to.
All levels of the business are involved, a testament to ITV’s commitment to ensuring our business strategy remains fit for the future whilst educating viewers on the actions they can take to address the climate crisis today.
Decarbonising is the cornerstone of our Climate Action strategy.
In Ecometrica, a data platform that delivers a more accurate and immediate picture of the carbon emissions that we control.
Our will also go through a third-party verification process to provide full confidence in the data.
New Net Zero standard We also raised the bar for our Net Zero ambition by committing to set additional long-term emissions reduction targets aligned with the new standard for Net Zero published by the Science-Based Targets Initiative.
We’ll build on our existing targets of reduction of our scope 1 & 2 emissions and 28% of our scope 3 emissions by 2030 by setting new longer-term targets for a minimum of 90% reduction of our full footprint by 2050 at the latest.
We’ll also invest in carbon sinks to remove the equivalent of any residual emissions and achieve Net Zero.
, we made reducing our carbon emissions targets a requirement of ITV’s future bank and debt capital market financings.
ITV has committed to an annualised carbon reduction as part of this.
In target, with a 44% emissions reduction compared to last year.
We’re working with the remaining non-renewable sites, alongside trials of new low-emission vehicles in our fleet and modernising our buildings.
Reducing scope (influenced by ITV) ITV’s scope 3 emissions are primarily composed of business travel, TV production activities, procurement of goods and services, and the transmission of our content to viewers.
Business travel emissions have rebounded slightly as Covid-restrictions eased off, with a 26% increase compared to 2020.
They remain well below our target however, with a baseline.
Supply chain The ITV Procurement team has rolled out a new Supplier Code of Conduct, and engaging our highest-impact suppliers to ensure they meet our robust standards.
Production We’re working closely with the production community and other broadcasters in the BAFTA albert consortium to support the creative sector in transitioning to low-carbon ways of producing our world-class content.
Content delivery ITV’s Technology and Procurement teams ensure that the transmission and delivery of our content to audiences is as sustainable as possible.
ITV collaborates with other media organisations as part of the DIMPACT project to reduce the footprint of content distribution and consumption, and we joined the newly formed DIMPACT steering group this year to better shape the project’s future.
Participation in international and national initiatives Collaboration is vital as climate change is a systemic problem.
ITV is part of the following initiatives: 44% reduction in scope 1 & 2 carbon emissions.
ITV is committed to achieving zero waste by in the UK will be reused or recycled.
or recycled by our operations, supply chain and productions by that same year.
From January all international sites through a centralised online platform.

Highlights on-screen A year on from launching our Diversity Acceleration Plan, we’ve seen a increase in lead roles filled by Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic talent onscreen.

ITV has commissioned exciting projects written by Sir Lenny Henry (Three Little Birds), Abby Ajayi (Riches) and Maya Sondhi (DI Ray).

On-screen highlights included Peckham’s Finest, Moneyball, Stephen, Grace, The Tower, and Coronation Street storylines tackling unconscious bias and racism.

Peckham’s Finest Highlights off-screen In production, we completed the first round of our Step Up 60 initiative, creating 62 opportunities for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic talent to secure their first ITV senior editorial and production roles.

Step Up the support to become a fully fledged Producer whilst also supporting me in places where I lacked experience.

ITV marked Black History Month with a new campaign, internal events, and high-profile documentaries with leading talent.

This year’s season also saw the return of TV’s first comedy panel show about Black History, as well as awarenessraising strands across Daytime programmes, and curated collections on ITV Hub and Britbox, plus specially commissioned content for digital platforms.

will.i.am: The Blackprint, Ashley Banjo: Britain in Black and White and Charlene White: Empire’s Child, alongside return of our Black History panel show “Sorry, I Didn’t Know”.

The supporting brand campaign showcased Black History in the making, paying tribute to role models from sport, music and science, who inspire a new generation of young people.

ITV’s Black History ident featured across our channels, created by Illustrator Kingsley Nebechi in collaboration with Mini Nwosu, Civil Engineer.

A three-part digital marketing series featured experiences of two influential figures in the same field from different generations – called Black History Month: The Bridge.

Finally, our Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic staff network, ITV Embrace, hosted various internal events including an In Conversation with Munroe Bergdorf, Virtual Soca Classes and a “Let’s Talk Afro Hair” panel.

We have on-screen and 46.9% representation off-screen in production teams.

The FTSE 100 for female representation in our combined Executive Committee and direct report roles.

We’re continuing to work towards female representation across ITV.

Highlights on-screen New dramas including Finding Alice, The Tower, Angela Black, and Hollington Drive saw strong female lead roles.

Highlights off-screen ITV is building a pipeline to recruit and develop women at all levels.

Women are well represented in our entrylevel Apprentice Scheme (our ITV Studios Production Trainee Scheme (82%).

The Career Returners Programme offers experienced professionals the opportunity to return to careers after an extended break, while the High Potential Leadership Programme accelerates the development of talented colleagues for senior positions.

We also encourage secondment opportunities to identify senior successors from underrepresented groups.

Many areas of ITV are at almost better, but we’re continuing to focus on key creative roles such as Drama writers and directors, where women remain underrepresented.

Working with Screenskills and Directors UK, we also support the Drama Directors Programme by providing placements for women.

Menopause Policy This year ITV launched a menopause policy, following a programme of awareness-raising discussion sessions run internally by ITV’s Women’s Network.

We’re one of the first broadcasters to do so, and announced the policy publicly on Loose Women.

We have people on-screen and 4.5% representation offscreen in production teams.

In our workforce, representation of disabled staff and those with a long-term health condition is at of all colleagues, 9% of managers and 10.8% of SLT.

We have much further to go, and the new commitments in our Diversity Acceleration Plan set out how we are prioritising disability inclusion.

Katie Piper, who was in ITV’s Invisible Disabilities campaign, joined as a regular Loose Women panellist.

Highlights off-screen We launched Creating Disability Inclusion training for leaders and managers, educating colleagues about the social model of disability, and helping ensure accessibility is built into everything we do.

To better support disabled talent and improve how disabled people’s stories are told on screen, we ran Disability Portrayal Training for our commissioning team and some ITV Studios and News colleagues.

For disabled staff and new joiners, we introduced Disability Access Passports to help colleagues discuss their access requirements, adjustments and personalisations with their managers and colleagues.

scheme ITV has been running since giving writers from underrepresented groups the chance to develop their skills by creating gripping stories for Coronation Street or Emmerdale, before writing a trial script for the show.

Some of my earliest memories are of watching Coronation Street with my family – it’s a show that holds a special place in my heart.

The level of commitment Corrie and ITV give to the ‘Original Voices’ opportunity is wonderful.

Wheelchairs and cobbles are normally a bad combination, but thanks to the efforts of everyone at ITV those famous cobbles are wonderfully accessible to all.

The challenge: disabled, with invisible disabilities often overlooked.

Research commissioned by ITV found that less than a third of the UK population are aware of the levels of disability in the UK and only those with a disability feel confident about telling people.

The campaign: Developed in partnership with Scope, and devised by ITV Creative, Invisible Disabilities featured famous faces powerfully highlighting that one in five of us is disabled, and just because you can’t see it, it doesn’t mean it’s not there.

The ad encourages viewers to learn more at itv.com/disability, and see testimonials from members of ITV’s internal disability staff network, ITV Able, about their own experiences.

The campaign followed a special Tonight programme on the subject.

LGBT+ PEOPLE TARGET representation of LGBT+ people onscreen, off-screen, and within our workforce by the end of 2022. 2021 RESULTS Our LGBT+ target combines sexual orientation and gender identity, but we measure and report these separately.

We’ve surpassed most of our targets for LGBT+ representation on-screen (LGB+, 1.1% trans), off-screen in production teams (21.3% LGB+), and in our workforce at all colleague and manager levels (8.2% and 7.8% LGB+ staff).

We have further to go to improve LGB+ representation at SLT (off-screen and in our workforce.

was played by Ben Aldridge, a gay actor.

We celebrated ITV Pride Day on-screen with special episodes of Coronation Street and Emmerdale, centring on LGBT+ characters.

In celebration of Pride Month, the ITV Pride network put together an internal campaign “Proud to be more than ITV”, with a series of network events with popular LGBT+ figures.

de-stigmatise the virus, ITV Pride organised a cross-network event with ITN Pride for a discussion with “It’s A Sin” actor, Nathaniel Hall, and Chris Sandford from The National HIV Story Trust.

As part of the ITV Content Delivery team’s #ProudToBe campaign, our colleague Sophie Scott spoke about gender identity and her experience: Throughout my life I’ve felt that I did not conform to the social characteristics that were expected of me, and my gender identity and the way I expressed it shifted with time.

The #MyPride “Letter to my discussion around the struggles and challenges young LGBT+ people can face.

By sharing their deeply personal stories, familiar faces such as Lady Phyll, Dr Ranj, Tia Kofi and Rob Rinder spread the message that Pride is all year.

To support the campaign we also published a range of educational content on digital platforms to help inform parents and peers of young LGBT+ people on how they can help them in coming out and accepting their identity.

In a year as tough as the role of the Networks in supporting and connecting their members becomes even more pivotal, and that’s something that we know our 338 members have really appreciated throughout the year.

Our bigger ambitions remain though, as we work towards making ITV the media employer of choice for disabled talent, driven by our culture of inclusion and representative storytelling.

Helen Stevens, ELT Able Chair Throughout a difficult year not only did the Embrace Network put on events to celebrate occasions in the cultural calendar like South Asian Heritage Month and Black History Month, we also held Big Debate sessions for our network members to come together to discuss racerelated stories in the media and provide support to those affected by them.

We saw a huge growth in network membership this year and we were part of the change to make ITV a more inclusive and diverse place to work.

Sonny Hanley, Embrace The world is changing so fast, at home and work, and time is more pressured than ever.

We’re expected to be superhuman, but many of us mere mortals need conversation and help on how to navigate through it all.

ITV Balance Network has three main objectives: to be a safe space for all colleagues to share stories and experiences of balancing work and home life, to influence and educate appropriate policy across ITV and to deliver an engaging programme of events to prompt meaningful discussions within ITV PLC.

Mark Trinder, ITV Balance The highlight for the Women’s Network in was being able to deliver meaningful events on key topics that affect women in their work and personal lives, such as the menopause, wellbeing, mental health, women’s safety, money, and imposter syndrome.

It was great to partner with ITV Daytime to raise awareness of both breast cancer and bowel cancer, by supporting their “Check and Change” and “No Butts” campaigns.

The second year of the pandemic means that coming together in person has continued to be limited, but the Women’s Network has been brilliant at helping to maintain connections, whilst building confidence and knowledge in areas that are challenging.

Helen Hopkins, Women Building on our work in strength to strength in 2021.

We were incredibly proud to have helped ITV become recognised as one of Britain’s Top Inclusive employers by the British LGBT Awards.

Context 2021 was a pivotal year for climate change.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) declared “code red” for humanity and COPworld’s governments and businesses come together to look for solutions to an ever more alarming crisis that’s disrupting people’s lives around the world.

ITV’s ambition has grown with the scale of the challenge.

We’ve made progress this year across all areas of the business.

From linking the senior team’s remuneration to Climate Action performance and engaging our commercial partners to showcase sustainable products to creating a dedicated Climate Action Week on-screen, ITV is transforming so we are fit to thrive and play a leading role in the transition to a sustainable society.

Carbon Disclosure Project ITV achieved a CDP (Carbon Disclosure Project) rating of A-.

Reducing emissions we control by and those we can influence by 28% by 2030.

conversation for colleagues across ITV, whether that’s how we engage with audiences and commercial partners or how we incorporate climate action into risk management.

to create a sustainable TV and media sector.

the senior team will be linked to performance on Climate Action targets.

Climate Action Delivery Group This quarterly group, chaired by the CFO and COO Chris Kennedy, has oversight of progress against our goals, and is attended by senior leaders from all the main business areas.

Clear accountability ensures we can work collaboratively to drive key decisions and monitor progress.

Supporting ITV’s long-term resilience to the rapidly changing environment is integral to my risk management role, especially given the increase of extreme weather events and far-reaching consequences of transitioning to a low-carbon economy.

I have acted as a facilitator for Climate Scenario Analysis, bringing together expertise from the business, Finance and Social Purpose teams, to better understand the risks ITV may be exposed to.

All levels of the business are involved, a testament to ITV’s commitment to ensuring our business strategy remains fit for the future whilst educating viewers on the actions they can take to address the climate crisis today.

Decarbonising is the cornerstone of our Climate Action strategy.

In Ecometrica, a data platform that delivers a more accurate and immediate picture of the carbon emissions that we control.

Our will also go through a third-party verification process to provide full confidence in the data.

New Net Zero standard We also raised the bar for our Net Zero ambition by committing to set additional long-term emissions reduction targets aligned with the new standard for Net Zero published by the Science-Based Targets Initiative.

We’ll build on our existing targets of reduction of our scope 1 & 2 emissions and 28% of our scope 3 emissions by 2030 by setting new longer-term targets for a minimum of 90% reduction of our full footprint by 2050 at the latest.

We’ll also invest in carbon sinks to remove the equivalent of any residual emissions and achieve Net Zero.

, we made reducing our carbon emissions targets a requirement of ITV’s future bank and debt capital market financings.

ITV has committed to an annualised carbon reduction as part of this.

In target, with a 44% emissions reduction compared to last year.

We’re working with the remaining non-renewable sites, alongside trials of new low-emission vehicles in our fleet and modernising our buildings.

Reducing scope (influenced by ITV) ITV’s scope 3 emissions are primarily composed of business travel, TV production activities, procurement of goods and services, and the transmission of our content to viewers.

Business travel emissions have rebounded slightly as Covid-restrictions eased off, with a 26% increase compared to 2020.

They remain well below our target however, with a baseline.

Supply chain The ITV Procurement team has rolled out a new Supplier Code of Conduct, and engaging our highest-impact suppliers to ensure they meet our robust standards.

Production We’re working closely with the production community and other broadcasters in the BAFTA albert consortium to support the creative sector in transitioning to low-carbon ways of producing our world-class content.

Content delivery ITV’s Technology and Procurement teams ensure that the transmission and delivery of our content to audiences is as sustainable as possible.

ITV collaborates with other media organisations as part of the DIMPACT project to reduce the footprint of content distribution and consumption, and we joined the newly formed DIMPACT steering group this year to better shape the project’s future.

Participation in international and national initiatives Collaboration is vital as climate change is a systemic problem.

ITV is part of the following initiatives: 44% reduction in scope 1 & 2 carbon emissions.

ITV is committed to achieving zero waste by in the UK will be reused or recycled.

or recycled by our operations, supply chain and productions by that same year.

From January all international sites through a centralised online platform.