Home office tasked with putting fairness first after windrush report calls for a clear mission statement for department based on humanity and inclusion published.
Home office uk windrush. The home office is set to be branded institutionally ignorant about race issues in a report on the windrush scandal today it will also conclude the department was too slow to react when problems. An estimated 500 000 people now living in the uk who arrived between 1948 and 1971 from caribbean countries have been called the windrush generation a reference to a ship which brought workers to. This scheme was designed in close consultation with members of the community and. Windrush backlog reaches 3 720 cases home office reveals more than 1 000 wrongful immigration offence reviews not started two years after scandal amber rudd days before she resigned as home.
Home office announcements relating to long term residents including the windrush generation next steps for those affected including the compensation scheme and lessons learned review windrush. The first duty of the government is to keep citizens safe and the country secure. The home office destroyed thousands of landing card slips recording windrush immigrants arrival dates in the uk despite staff warnings that the move would make it harder to check the records. The home office has been at the front line of this endeavour since 1782.
And to go some way in addressing the hardship suffered the home office launched the windrush compensation scheme.