The BBC has made "significant progress" in addressing issues raised by the review into the corporation's culture during the Jimmy Savile and Stuart Hall years, director-general Lord Hall has said.
Dame Janet Smith published her review into the culture and practices of the BBC in February 2016, looking at the period when presenters Savile and Hall were employed and examining the corporation's connection to the child sexual abuse by Savile.
The BBC has now published a progress report, outlining changes made in response to the review's findings.
Read more: Jimmy Savile was "obsessively interested in sex," Dame Janet Smith finds
One area of focus has seen the BBC making dedicated whistleblowing channels available to employees.
Last year, 31 cases were treated as whistleblowing, up from 20 cases in 2014/2015. Fifteen of those cases were upheld and four are ongoing.
However, a staff survey showed that only 55% of respondents knew of the BBC whistleblowing policy.
While 72% said they knew where to go to find information and support in case of bullying or harassment, just 47% felt they would be confident of any action having a fair outcome.
The BBC said it would address these findings by making policies simpler, plain speaking and easily accessible.
Read more: Leaked report - Jimmy Savile carried out four rapes at BBC
The corporation said it now has more than 40 child protection advisers reporting to the head of child protection and safeguarding. Some 4,500 people have received Working with Children training in the past two years.
Policies on grievances including bullying and harassment have been revised, with dedicated HR case managers. Forty grievances relating to bullying and harassment were dealt with in the year ending March 2016, with four upheld and eight ongoing. There was one further case complaint made of sexual harassment.
Lord Hall said: "We have made significant progress since 2012. Our child protection, complaints, whistleblowing and investigation processes are all sound - and we are doing even more to make sure all our staff are aware of them."
Read more: Report - some BBC staff aware of Jimmy Savile's inappropriate sexual conduct
He added: "Lessons will continue to be learned, processes improved and protections strengthened. That is the only way we truly can ensure we rebuild the trust and faith of those who we failed."
As suggested by the review, the BBC has appointed an external auditor, GoodCorporation, to conduct an independent and objective audit.
The BBC's final response to Dame Janet's review will be published later in the year.
The BBC will not release any information about the disciplinary outcome for any cases involving bullying and harassment.
New deputy director general Anne Bulford said: "These are, at heart, confidential processes, and what we haven't done is publish a lot of data about what happens to complaints that are upheld... What we have done is put out very full data about the numbers of complaints that we have received and the sources of them.
"We're not aware of anyone else doing that and this is a very big step forward."
An NSPCC spokesman said: "It is positive that the BBC is now taking the issue of child protection seriously; we would expect nothing less from a British flagship organisation that represents the UK around the globe.
"There have been some very difficult moments in the organisation's past when it comes to child abuse and, whilst whistleblowing is important, it's only one piece of the jigsaw.
"We need to ensure that the momentum continues and the NSPCC is working with them to help achieve this."
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules here