The Board of Governors' key role is to ensure that the BBC acts solely in the interests of licence fee payers.
In Building Public Value, the Corporation's Charter Renewal manifesto, the BBC pledged to be more responsive and accountable to the needs of the public who pay for it. At the centre of this new framework is their promise to scrutinise the BBC's activities, through more regular consultation and discussion.
Over the forthcoming months this website will be publishing a series of consultations which we'll be inviting the public, industry and other interested parties to comment on. The consultations will run over an eight to twelve week period and will be led by the Governors' independent Unit. At the end of the consultation all responses will be posted on the website. Each reply will be carefully and open-mindedly analysed and then submitted to the Board of Governors for consideration. Once a decision has been reached it will be published on this website.
Complaints
Published: 27 February 2006 Closed: 24 March 2006
As part of our wider objectives to deliver greater transparency and accountability, the Governors' Programme Complaints Committee has proposed a set of public guidelines, outlining how it will consider and handle appeals.
Service Licences and the Public Value Test
Published: 25 October 2005 Closed: 16 December 2005
The way in which the BBC's services are governed will change radically in 2007, when the Board of Governors is replaced with a new BBC Trust. Service Licences and the Public Value Test have been proposed as important tools for the Trust and Governors would like to gather views on how they might work.
Radio Archive
Published: 3 October 2005 Closed: 25 November 2005
BBC Radio holds a large archive of material and is considering a number of different ways of making this more widely accessible to licence-fee-payers. This includes potentially making archived programmes available for broadcast by UK commercial radio companies.