ITV Signs Up To Valuable 500's Leadership Programme

ITV has signed up to join the first cohort of employers taking part in Valuable500's GenerationValuable alongside Channel 4, Clifford Chance, EY, Enel, ISS/AS and Telefónica.

Generation Valuable – the leadership up mentoring programme for Disabled people – will see each participant paired with a mentor at an executive level within their organisation.

The leadership programme is designed to drive disability inclusion with the aim of getting companies to build a community of disabled talent who can share their experiences and inform leaders about how to make businesses more inclusive.

The first cohort of 75 will be announced on International Day for Persons with Disabilities in December.

ITV continues to promote an inclusive and diverse workplace, the broadcaster recently launched its Diversity Commissioning Fund which ring-fences £80m of the content budget spend over the next three years to drive change in disability equity and equity for people of colour, recorded a 19 per cent improvement of perception from our Disabled audiences in the last two years and began a roll-out of Disability Access Passports.

The Disability Access Passports are confidential documents and support conversations with line managers to ensure d/Deaf, disabled and neurodiverse colleagues get the support they need at work and provides non-disabled colleagues with a framework to enable confident conversations about disability, access and adjustments. The passports are transferable across departments and between broadcasters.

The passports are embedded into the recruitment, onboarding and performance review to ensure d/Deaf, disabled and neurodiverse colleagues have a number of opportunities to discuss their needs and adjustments with their line manager. Disability inclusion training is also being rolled out to support line managers in this process and embedding disability inclusion into the business.

Carolyn McCall: "ITV is excited to be a part of the inaugural Valuable500 Generation Valuable programme. Employers cannot ignore the striking underrepresentation of d/Deaf, disabled and neurodiverse people in their workforce, and we at ITV are committed to taking steps across multiple fronts to ensure our culture is inclusive, attractive and accessible to the best talent out there. Senior leaders play an important role in culture, so leadership programmes such as this can have powerful ripple effects."

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