ScreenSkills are working as a partner of the TV Access Project (TAP) to deliver training designed to ensure that the 5A’s are embedded in every process and stage of production.
The 5As are - Anticipate, Ask, Assess, Adjust, Advocate - they are guidelines aimed at ensuring the full and equal inclusion of deaf, disabled and/or neurodivergent talent through a commitment to certain measures to improve standards.
The TV Access Project is an alliance of ten of the UK’s biggest broadcasters and streamers who have pledged to work together to create a substantive and permanent structural shift in the TV industry to ensure access provision for Disabled talent.
Its vision is to see full inclusion by 2030 – that is to say, a television industry where no Disabled talent is ever excluded because barriers have been removed and equity created.
At the heart this is ambitious co-creation between disabled people and the wider industry to deliver sustainable solutions with buy-in for and from everyone.
ScreenSkills invites training providers or industry professionals to tender for new 5As Implementation for Freelancers Training that is specifically focused on different departments, see below.
The 5As Implementation for Freelancers Training is funded by donations to TAP.
Who can apply?
ScreenSkills welcomes applications from individuals, partnerships or organisations that have a proven track record of delivering successful industry-standard training projects. We particularly welcome applications from those based in the UK nations and regions, including partnerships between organisations and/or individuals with expertise in unscripted TV.
The successful applicant will need to demonstrate their understanding of scripted and unscripted TV training requirements, including the diversity challenges facing the industry, and the specific barriers faced by disabled people and must clearly demonstrate that they have the resources to track the career progression of participants beyond the life of the programme.
If applicants are already delivering similar training and can expand their offer to include the scope outlined below, they are also welcome to apply.
Applicants must:
- Demonstrate evidence of appropriate, recent engagement with the industry in the design and delivery of the programme
- Meet critical diversity aims as outlined in this tender, including:
- making reasonable adjustments to the training (whether face-to-face, content or online and including during the application process) to make it accessible to a diverse audience – we will ask for evidence of your approach and implementation
- having an equality policy in place as an employer
- having a monitoring system in place to track the diversity of the delegates, see this guide
- providing diversity and inclusivity training to facilitators – (see free ACAS online training).
- Gather long-term destination data from the delegates to prove impact of training utilising the ScreenSkills monitoring questionnaire
Key requirements
The training provider must design, manage, market, recruit and deliver.
The training should consist of discreet sessions aimed at the different job responsibilities in scripted and unscripted TV
- leading teams
- recruitment
- casting contributors and talent
- recces and locations
- production management
- live studios and broadcast
Training to be delivered online over two hours. Ideally attendance of 12-20 people per session.
Each session to run twice a year.
All training will be subject to an initial period of evaluation, during which TAP and ScreenSkills will observe and feedback on the first two sessions delivered.
There is an expectation that alongside the course above participants must also complete ScreenSkills’ e-learning modules on Disability awareness, or have previously attended equivalent Disability Inclusion Training, for example CDN, ScreenSkills, or Triple C training.
Participant aims
The training should be for a minimum of 288, participants based across the UK. Recruitment should target individuals working in unscripted and scripted TV
Participants will be asked to show they have 3 credits in the area in which they wish to receive 5As training.
The following are the minimum diversity aims for this programme:
- At least 65% of beneficiaries based outside London
- 20% minority ethnic groups (ethnicity aim)
- 50% women (gender aim)
- 12% disability (disability aim)
- 12% LGBT (sexual orientation and gender identity aim)
- 30% social inclusion (based on parental occupation)
Providing access to diverse crew and talent is key to our delivery objectives. All trainers and companies delivering programmes that are funded by the Unscripted TV Skills Fund must meet the identified diversity requirements. If they fail to do so, they must show robust evidence of why a target has not been met.
We require all Skills Fund-funded programme participants to set up a ScreenSkills profile via our website and to provide diversity data at this point. Participants must complete their profile and diversity data before the training begins. If diversity targets are not met, the project may be at risk of losing funding.
How to apply
At this stage we are requesting an expression of interest. After clicking the button below, training providers will be emailed and asked to complete a brief document outlining the key aspects of the proposed programme, how the key requirements of the training sessions will be met, information about the company and the provider’s capacity to deliver training.
How much can you apply for?
We are looking for bids of up to £60k to develop and deliver the training over two years
All our funds are treated as grants and therefore are not applicable for VAT.
Deadlines
All expressions of interest should be sent directly to ScreenSkills via the 'register interest' button by 20 September, 2024
If you are successful in being shortlisted, you will be required to submit an online application form and a budget by 20 October, 2024. Applicants will be notified of a decision by 1 November, 2024.
We expect to launch training in January 2025.
Other useful Information
As part of your application, we will expect you to detail how you have, or will be, ensuring the training and any application process are accessible including, but not limited to, alternative application formats, marketing and the delivery of training.
As part of accessibility, we expect your budget to include a reasonable bursary allocation for delegates who risk being excluded due to costs including, but not limited to, travel and caring responsibilities.
If there is, or will be, a charge to the delegates for the training, we will also expect your budget to include a reasonable bursary allocation to ensure no potential applicants are deterred.
Please ensure that, where applicable, costs are shown in your budget inclusive of VAT. This also applies to any delegates fees you may charge.
If you would like to discuss any aspect of this tender, or your proposal, before submitting your application, please contact us at USF@screenskills.com.