Public figures sign open letter calling for scheme to be moved from Home Office to independent body The prime minister and the home secretary have been urged to remove the Windrush compensation scheme from Home Office control. About 70 public figures have signed an open letter backing a call by the Windrush Justice Community Collective (WJCC) for a radical overhaul of the scheme, which was set up to compensate those, mainly Black Britons, who were wrongly classed as illegal migrants and stripped of citizenship rights over decades. The collective – whose members include Age UK, the Black Equity Organisation, Black Lives Matter UK, the Runnymede Trust, Southwark Law Centre and the Windrush Justice Clinic – is calling for the scheme to be placed under an independent body overseen by a judge or commissioner. It is also calling for a statutory public inquiry, non-means-tested free legal help for Windrush scandal claimants, and for survivors to be given their preference of citizenship or indefinite leave to remain. The letter calls for a “complete reset” of the redress scheme, saying the denial of free legal support to Windrush survivors – unlike victims of the Post Office Horizon and in
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Public figures sign open letter calling for scheme to be moved from Home Office to independent body The prime minister and the home secretary have been urged to remove the Windrush compensation scheme from Home Office control. About 70…
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Public figures sign open letter calling for scheme to be moved from Home Office to independent body The prime minister and the home secretary have been urged to remove the Windrush compensation scheme from Home Office control. About 70…
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