The changes comes after a review looking at why 75 per cent of those prosecuted for not paying for their licence were women
“We look forward to the new partnership with StepChange and we will closely monitor its impact.” Additonal proposals put forward in the BBC’s action plan include better training for TV Licence visiting officers to help them have a “deeper understanding” of financial hardship and debt.
Customers will be given more opportunities to buy a licence before prosecution and the broadcaster said it would try to withdraw prosections against those in the process of making payments towards a licence. The BBC will also work to improve its communications with customers to “ensure greater clarity”., said the “action plan” did not go far enough as it focuses on “getting more people to pay their licence fee rather than on ensuring that those in genuine hardship”.
“This review came about because women, and those in genuine financial difficulty, have been disproportionately bearing the burden of the BBC’s enforcement scheme for years,” she added. “A situation that’s particularly abhorrent during the cost-of-living crisis.
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