Source · Select Committees · Women and Equalities Committee
Recommendation 27
27
Accepted
Require CIISA to publish annual report detailing music industry discrimination, harassment, and diversity.
Recommendation
CIISA has committed to producing an annual report. That report should include an overview on the state of the music industry with respect to levels of discrimination, harassment and abuse and diversity. Reported data should be broken down by protected characteristic. The report should include relevant findings on the adequacy of organisations’ internal reporting processes, support for complainants, training on dealing with incidents of sexual harassment, the safety of women on their premises and any attempts—successful or otherwise—to silence victims of unacceptable behaviour through the use of non-disclosure agreements or similar confidentiality arrangements. Organisations about which CIISA has significant concerns should be named. Events have shown that only by calling out such behaviour will the culture that protects abusers over victims change. (Recommendation, Paragraph 124)
Government Response Summary
The government confirms CIISA will publish an annual report with aggregated data broken down by protected characteristic. CIISA will also name organisations with evidence-based systemic concerns and publish non-compliance with recommendations.
Government Response
Accepted
HM Government
Accepted
We are committed to supporting the music industry and the wider creative industries with insight reporting that identifies systemic trends and themes alongside what learning can be taken and used to continuously strengthen the workplace and support vital cultural change. As CIISA embeds its work, we will look to what information can and should be published that supports CIISA in this aim, which will include reporting on how organisations are doing to embed our Standards framework. CIISA will take non-compliance with our Standards or recommendations seriously alongside ensuring we identify and address significant concerns. We will look to identify a suitable approach to how CIISA would publish details in such exceptional circumstances as we design our service. CIISA will provide an annual report and publish aggregated data which will be broken down by protected characteristic. CIISA will name organisations where there is evidence based systemic issues of concern. CIISA will also publish non-compliance with our recommendations.