BBC Publishes Annual Plan for 2017/18

The final copy of this plan will be published later this year, following publication of Ofcom’s finalised Operating Licence for the BBC.

The BBC has published its Annual Plan for 2017/18. Under the Corporation’s new 11-year Charter the BBC has an obligation to publish its creative and work plans for the forthcoming year. The Annual Plan is a key document in the relationship between the BBC and Ofcom, and an essential part of accountability to licence fee payers.

As part of this publication the BBC is announcing its biggest investment in children’s services in a generation – an additional £34 million across the three years to 2019/20, over and above existing budgets. The document also contains further information on some of the BBC’s biggest content in 2017, including the major new pan BBC season Civilisations.

The Annual Plan contains information on three areas.

• The BBC’s creative plans for 2017/18
• The BBC’s three-year strategy and work plan for 2017/18
• Each BBC services’ contribution to distinctiveness

More detail about each of these areas here.