Diversity and Inclusion Experts Eligible for Skilled Work Visas
14th July 2025
Diversity and inclusion experts can come to the UK on skilled work visas, The Telegraph can reveal.
The Home Office has also safeguarded visa application routes for the vocations of poet and blogger on a list of protected occupations.
Labour has made tackling migration one of its key targets, with a crackdown on work visas announced earlier this year after net migration neared one million.
Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary, vowed to ensure that the immigration system was “linked to skills and training”.
But critics have said that ministers are protecting the wrong professions instead of focusing on importing workers who will contribute to the ailing economy.
Under the “crackdown” announced in May, a temporary list of “shortage” occupations was drawn up outlining who would continue to be eligible for skilled work visas.
Among these roles is “equality and diversity manager”. In recent years, such jobs have become controversial for pushing concepts such as the idea of “white privilege”.
The profession has been described as a “plague” on the public sector, and the Civil Service alone has spent £27 million of taxpayers’ money on diversity officers in a year. More than £13 million is being spent on the salaries of diversity officers by NHS trusts each year.
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