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BBC Alan Yentob

BBC Trust decides not to investigate Alan Yentob because he resigned

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By Tony Connelly, Sports Marketing Reporter

December 4, 2015 | 2 min read

The BBC’s governing body will not investigate Alan Yentob over accusations that he tried to influence the BBC’s coverage of the Kids Company scandal following his decision to step down as creative director.

BBC Trust won't investigate Alan Yentob

BBC Trust won't investigate Alan Yentob

The BBC Trust said that it will not investigate the claims of financial irregularities and sexual abuse at the scandal hit Kids Company charity which collapsed while Yentob was chairman.

The 68-year-old was accused of a conflict of interests after making a phone call to Newsnight ahead of a report on Kids Company and is also said to have accompanied the charity’s chief executive, Camila Batmanghelidjh, to an interview on Radio 4’s Today programme.

Having announced earlier this week that he would step down, Yentob will no longer be investigated by the trust which said it was no longer “proportionate, appropriate or cost effective” to do so.

The Trust’s editorial standards committee listened to the specific programmes and said that there was “no evidence that the integrity of the output had been affected”.

David Jordan, the BBC’s director of editorial policy and standards, is due to file a report giving his views on whether changes should be made to the process for managing conflicts surrounding senior managers.

The report will look at a number of other areas including the possibility of additional rules governing external activities undertaken by senior managers.

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