Windrush victims in line for £10k payout as Priti Patel due to announce bump in minimum compensation

Windrush victims are in line for £10k payout as Priti Patel is due to announce increase in minimum amount of compensation Under the new reforms, those who can show an ‘impact’ on their life from the scandal will be immediately paid £10,000, according to The Sunday Times Compensation for Windrush scandal victims has been criticised … Read more

CALVIN ROBINSON slams celebrities invoking Windrush

These stars are insulting the Windrush Generation: CALVIN ROBINSON slams celebrities invoking the scandal to stop child rapists and murderers being deported By Calvin Robinson For The Daily Mail Published: 23:19 GMT, 4 December 2020 | Updated: 23:46 GMT, 4 December 2020 On the mantelpiece in my grandparents’ sitting room when I was growing up, there … Read more

Windrush victim daughter’s warns against linking scandal to deportation

Windrush victim daughter’s warns against linking scandal to deportation of Jamaican killers and rapists By Emine Sinmaz and David Barrett For The Daily Mail Published: 23:08 GMT, 4 December 2020 | Updated: 23:09 GMT, 4 December 2020 The daughter of a Windrush victim insisted last night that the scandal should not be linked to the … Read more

Home Office ‘ignored laws’ in Windrush storm: Equality rules were shunned

Home Office ‘ignored laws’ in Windrush storm: Equality rules were shunned when officials drew up Theresa May’s ‘hostile environment’ policy, report says Watchdog found failures to observe policy contributed to Windrush scandal  Coalition government’s ‘hostile environment’ policy brought in by Theresa May It caused problems for entirely legal migrants from the Windrush generation  An Equality … Read more

Majority of Windrush scandal compensation claimants are still without payment

1948-70 – Nearly half a million people moved from the Caribbean to Britain, which in 1948 faced severe labour shortages in the wake of the Second World War. The immigrants were later referred to as ‘the Windrush generation’.  Working age adults and many children travelled from the Caribbean to join parents or grandparents in the UK … Read more

Windrush campaigner Paulette WIlson has died aged 64 

Windrush campaigner Paulette WIlson who was nearly deported despite living in the UK for nearly 50 years has died aged 64 Paulette Wilson, 64, was found dead by daughter Natalie Barnes on Thursday  The Windrush campaigner had delivered a petition to Downing Street last month  She had spent 50 years in the UK before being … Read more

Home Office staff to receive training on history of migration in the wake of the Windrush scandal

Home Office staff to receive ‘comprehensive’ training on the history of migration and race in the UK in the wake of the Windrush scandal Training for Home Office staff to ‘understand history of migration in this country’ Priti Patel pledged to take ‘a more compassionate approach to applications’ The Home Secretary said ‘nothing like’ the … Read more