This Morning: ITV employees allege toxic culture following Schofield exit

A "large number" of existent and erstwhile ITV employees person made claims astir a toxic moving civilization connected daytime shows including This Morning, an MP has said.

The House of Commons media committee has received allegations of harassment, bullying and discrimination, according to its seat Dame Caroline Dinenage.

ITV said it took complaints seriously, but that it cannot enactment unless specified allegations are made directly.

The broadcaster's main enforcement Dame Carolyn McCall appeared earlier the committee pursuing the fallout from an matter This Morning's erstwhile presenter Phillip Schofield had with a overmuch younger colleague.

That sparked allegations from radical including Dr Ranj Singh, who utilized to regularly contiguous segments connected This Morning, of a wider toxic civilization astatine the programme.

However, Dame Carolyn told the MPs she did "not recognise that successful This Morning".

In a missive published connected Wednesday, Dame Caroline Dinenage told the ITV brag she and different committee members had been contacted by a "large fig of individuals" successful the weeks aft her quality successful Parliament.

"These individuals talk with large pridefulness astir moving astatine ITV and are hugely affirmative astir galore of their colleagues," Dame Caroline said.

"However, they besides rise claims of toxic moving cultures, bullying, favoritism and harassment."

Some "have described however their determination to rise concerns wrong ITV has led to further bullying and discrimination, and successful immoderate cases having to permission the organisation with a colony agreement", Dame Caroline wrote.

"It is casual to recognize wherefore those individuals, particularly wherever they person near ITV and bash not privation to relive their traumatic experiences, bash not consciousness susceptible of attempting to study their concerns, oregon that ITV volition instrumentality them seriously."

When she appeared earlier the committee, the ITV main enforcement said the institution had received 2 complaints from radical moving connected This Morning successful 5 years.

However, Dame Caroline wrote that the committee had subsequently been contacted by different erstwhile and existent employees who said they were "personally alert of aggregate cases".

These individuals "appear to contradict your grounds that determination person been lone 2 complaints", the MP said.

In response, ITV's Dame Carolyn asked the committee to proceed to promote individuals with concerns to interaction ITV utilizing its reporting enactment SafeCall, which she said could instrumentality reports confidentially oregon anonymously.

Dame Carolyn besides said individuals could marque nonstop interaction with Jane Mulcahy KC - the barrister who is conducting an outer review of however ITV handled Schofield's matter and the fallout.

"As we made wide to you and the committee, we are perfectly committed to enabling radical to rise immoderate issues oregon complaints they whitethorn person astir moving astatine ITV," Dame Carolyn wrote.

"We ever instrumentality these earnestly and volition analyse and instrumentality immoderate enactment is appropriate.

"However, we are incapable to bash truthful if we cannot prosecute with those people."

Dame Carolyn said she and her colleagues were besides amazed to larn Dame Caroline's missive would beryllium published "given our [ITV's] ain concerns astir the payment of our staff".

"We person of people co-operated successful each mode and been wide that complaints are taken seriously," Dame Carolyn said of the issues raised by the committee.

She added that the outer reappraisal of ITV is expected to beryllium completed successful September.