The diversity commitments survived the cuts. The people who delivered them didn't.

ITV has won awards for its diversity commitments. They publish targets. They have statements. They do the right things publicly. When the redundancies came, several of the roles involved were the ones responsible for implementing those commitments — production diversity leads, commissioning support roles for underrepresented creators, outreach programmes. The commitments stayed in the press releases. The people who made them real were gone. I'm not saying this was intentional. I'm saying the structure of how these organisations operate means that "diverse and inclusive" roles are always the first to be treated as discretionary, and the commitments they underpin are always maintained rhetorically while the infrastructure supporting them is quietly dismantled.