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The 麻豆社 Trust has completed a service review of bbc.co.uk. This is the first service review undertaken by the Trust as part of its ongoing programme of reviews of all 麻豆社 services under the terms of the new Charter and Agreement. The review's findings will inform the service's development over the next few years.

Findings

The review considered how bbc.co.uk performed against its service licence, the service's governance and accountability and whether its Service Licence needed to be developed in order to reflect changes in the market and users' needs.

Next steps

The review set out a number of actions for 麻豆社 management and for the Trust. These include:

• Improving the performance in terms of demonstrating distinctiveness, linking, search and navigation and meeting users' expectations of dialogue.
• Introducing better financial and management control:
• Proposals for a new system of management control to be submitted to the Trust within six months
• The effectiveness of the new management structure will be reviewed within one year of its implementation
• Baseline budget for bbc.co.uk will be revised to £114.4 million for 2008/09
• Service Licence for bbc.co.uk will be revised to ensure greater accountability
• We will create separate annexes covering the main editorial areas: news, sport, nations and local, formal learning, audio and music and vision.

Evidence base

You can find links to information gathered during the public consultation as well as research we used in reaching our conclusions on the supporting evidence page.

Terms of reference

Equality impact assessment

In fulfilling its equality duties the 麻豆社 must make arrangements to assess proposed policies for any effects they might have on the promotion of equality. A retrospective equality impact assessment has been conducted on the bbc.co.uk service review consultation, a summary of which can be found below.

Update on external search

One of the areas the review considered was what role the 麻豆社 should have in providing external websearch. We asked 麻豆社 management to take a decision on the future of the search function following the review. (See action 2 on page 16 of the report and pages 53-54 for more detail on the Trust's view on this matter). We stated that we would report publicly on any decision taken.

In December 2008, 麻豆社 management informed the Trust that after consideration it intended to remove the external search engine on 麻豆社 Online. The Trust noted that this was in line with its own assessment and that the external websearch would cease on January 29 2009

Approval of new investment

Following the approval of the new management controls for bbc.co.uk, the 麻豆社 Executive applied to the Trust for permission to increase 麻豆社 Online's budget by £52.7m over the next three years. After consideration of the Executive's plans, by the Trust has agreed an increase in 麻豆社 Online's budget of £30.7m over three years. This increase will be subject to the conditions set out in the letter below from the Chairman to the Director-General.