BBC chair outlines series of actions to ensure 'clearer accountability'published at 07:50

Next, Shah outlines the next steps he has planned:

"My intention is to sharpen and strengthen the process so that EGSC acts speedily, and monitors the actions agreed to ensure implementation.

"The plan is to broaden the agenda to include all BBC output — as all BBC programming, not just its journalism, is bound by editorial guidelines.

"I will also be changing the composition of the Committee to align better with its changed role and to ensure clearer accountability. This re-engineering of the EGSC will come before the Board in December."

The BBC chair also sets out a series of additional actions:

• "Going forward, the Board will commit to re-visiting, each and every item set out in Michael Prescott's note, and take further action where appropriate. We will be transparent about the conclusions we reach and the actions taken
• "Where we have put in measures already, in response to the original EGSC research, we will repeat those internal reviews to check the changes made are making material improvements to the output
• "Where we have already accepted that items fall short of our editorial standards, we will ensure that amendments to the relevant online stories are made where this was deemed appropriate"