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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Amelia Gentleman

Home Office’s Windrush payout scheme needs urgent reform, study finds

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Rally on 6 April 2023 marking the fifth anniversary of the Windrush scandal coming to light. Photograph: Thabo Jaiyesimi/Sopa Images/Shutterstock

The Windrush compensation scheme is failing claimants and violating their rights, the first international study into the government’s handling of the immigration scandal has concluded.

The Human Rights Watch report is critical of the Home Office’s slow progress towards compensating those affected by the scandal in which thousands of UK residents were wrongly categorised as immigration offenders, and called on the government to launch “urgent reform to protect the rights of claimants”.

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