'Remove Windrush scheme from Home Office' Human Rights Watch finds little has changed since the last damning report
Human Rights Watch finds little has changed since the last damning reportDEMANDS FOR the Windrush compensation scheme to be removed from the Home Office grew this morning after a new report condemned it as ‘not fit for purpose.’
The new report paints a picture of how little has changed since the Home Affairs report found an excessive burden on claimants to provide documentary evidence of losses, long delays in processing, poor communication and inadequate staffing. Government had failed to learn the lessons from Wendy Williams’ ‘Windrush Lessons Learnt Review’ in 2020, and “many eligible claimants do not come forward because of that dynamic or because they are afraid of dealing with the same government department that deported members of the Windrush generation.”
“The Department has created a process that is so bureaucratic and complicated that some Windrush victims have died before they could successfully complete it. To add insult to unimaginable injury, surviving claimants have been prevented from getting the legal aid they urgently need to help complete the process and begin to rebuild their lives.“We are calling for an independent body focussed on the needs of victims to be appointed and Windrush survivors must be able to access legal aid.
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