On Tuesday 18 March at the Cavendish Conference Centre, London, our panel shared practical guidance on how to ensure your company is delivering its legal and moral obligations around good duty of care.
With the latest The Film and TV Charity Survey pointing to a decline in mental health for many in the workforce, our panel of duty of care experts who are dedicated to making positive and lasting change in the industry explored:
Belatedly, television seems to be waking up to the mental health crisis in the industry.
Progress is being made but there is still a huge amount of work to do. Even leading campaigners recognise that improving mental health is no easy task, not least in facing up to personal circumstances.
Marcus Ryder, CEO of the Film and TV Charity, arrived at the last possible moment for the RTS National Event on duty of care last month, apologising to the event organisers for oversleeping after leaving work feeling ill. This, he admitted to the audience, was a lie.
From true crime to reality TV – and, increasingly, drama based on real-life events – duty of care to programme contributors is now a key topic across the production community. Recent controversies around Strictly Come Dancing have only emphasised further the importance of duty of care procedures.
That’s why the RTS hosted a timely “How to…” session to discuss the lengths producers must now go to in ensuring the best duty of care without compromising content.
How do we make entertaining and dramatic scripted and unscripted content, without anyone suffering in the process? Our expert panel delved into how to give the best duty of care on a production without compromising the content, while looking at past and present duty of care procedures, and what challenges lie ahead.
