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Editorial Guidelines and Safeguarding Trust

All BBC programmes and content must comply with the BBC's policies and guidelines.

The new BBC Editorial Guidelines are online, as are the Safeguarding Trust Modules. Please select one of the panels below to go to the relevant websites and find out more.

Compliance and Policy

Please see our Compliance and Policy section on this website for details of what to do to ensure your programmes are compliant.

Future Media Standards & Guidelines 

For multiplatform content the BBC Future Media Standards & Guidelines provide the fundamental technical and design requirements and editorial, design and commercial considerations involved in the production and delivery of web material for bbc.co.uk. This site informs producers, designers and developers of the production standards and policies we use to ensure our websites are produced efficiently, deliver quality, make best use of the BBC's web infrastructure, and are easy to maintain. Please esnure you are also up-to-date with the Future Media Standards & Guidelines.

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