Clare Morrow

I have been Manager of the BCIDN since October 2007. I spent more than twenty years working in news and programme production in ITV and the BBC, both for radio and television. My previous job was as Controller of News and Programmes at ITV Yorkshire, where I had worked for fifteen years. I left ITV in March 2007, although I continue to work for the channel as a freelance executive producer.

As one of ITV's diversity champions I helped to kickstart significant change in the organisation, particularly in the area of cultural diversity. I have also been responsible for commissioning hundreds of hours of programming over the last few years and led the way in ensuring that those programmes regularly included disabled contributors as well as people from other under represented groups.

My youngest daughter is profoundly and multiply disabled by a condition called Rett Syndrome.

My role at the BCIDN is to work with members across the industry to find ways to unblock the barriers to disabled people playing a full part in the industry as employees and participants in programming and other content.

I can be contacted on clare.morrow@staging.efd.org.uk