BBC Editorial Guidelines 2025

The Editorial Guidelines set the BBC's editorial values and standards. The guidelines apply to all BBC content wherever in the world it is broadcast or published.


  • 1: The BBC's Editorial Standards

  • 2: Impartiality

  • 3: Accuracy

  • 4: Conflicts of Interest

  • 5: Harm and Offence

  • 6: Fairness

  • 7: Privacy

  • 8: Crime and Anti-social Behaviour

  • 9: Children and Young People as Contributors

  • 10: Politics and Public Policy

  • 11: Statistics, Polls, Data and Surveys

  • 12: War, Terror and Extreme Violence, Disaster and Disorder

  • 13: Use of BBC Content after Publication or Broadcast

  • 14: Religious Content

  • 15: Independence from Commercial and other External Interests

  • 16: External Relationships, including Commercial Relationships, and Financing

  • 17: Competitions, Votes and Interactivity

  • 18: The Law

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