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MPs join calls for Windrush compensation scheme to be taken off Home Office

Yet another damning report into the Home Office’s Windrush compensation scheme calls for it to be run independently. This time it’s MPs saying it.

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Windrush

Windrush compensation scheme should be independent as victims fear Home Office, experts say

A damning new report found the low number of compensation claims from Windrush victims was due to the scheme being run by the same department that failed them.

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Books

Top 5 books about the Windrush Generation, chosen by author Paul Mendez

Author Paul Mendez, whose debut novel Rainbow Milk has been nominated for the Polari First Book Prize 2021, chooses his top five books that tell the stories of the Windrush Generation.

Social Justice

What happened to the Windrush compensation scheme?

Social Justice

Windrush Day ‘is not valuable’, says Eddy Grant

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Social Justice

Windrush campaigners demand overhaul of ‘retraumatising’ compensation scheme

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Books

Busting the myths of the Windrush Generation

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Music

Lynval Golding: “I’ve fought all my life to say my life matters”

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Social Justice

Windrush Day 2020: powerful migration memories from four famous faces

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Social Justice

Amelia Gentleman: I fear the Windrush Scandal could happen again

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Social Justice

Floella Benjamin has confirmed the location of the new Windrush monument

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Lenny Henry: Without media diversity who knows what stories we’re missing?

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Health

Ainsley Harriott: Now it’s all about our calypso food

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