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Editorial complaints and appeals

Editorial complaints are complaints about the content of BBC output. If you want to make an editorial complaint you should complain to the BBC Executive. If you are not happy with your response from the BBC Executive you can appeal to the Trust.

Editorial guidelines

The BBC judges editorial complaints against its published Editorial Guidelines. You can find the Guidelines on the BBC website.

BBC Editorial Guidelines

How to complain

If you think the BBC has broken its Editorial Guidelines, you have the right to complain to the BBC Executive. You can find details of how to complain on the BBC website.

BBC complaints

How to appeal

Details of how to appeal to the Trust about an editorial complaint are set out in our editorial complaints procedure.

Download the Trust's editorial complaints procedure

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