The British Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman has found serious problems with the Home Office’s management of the Windrush Compensation Scheme, especially its decision-making and communicatio...

Scheme ordered to pay £25,000 to Caroline Tobierre’s family who were ‘consumed’ by battle for compensation at end of her life The Windrush compensation scheme must improve after it failed to consider a dying woman’s claim properly and wrongly refused to compensate her husband for the loss of his pension, an ombudsman has said. Caroline Tobierre’s last days were “overshadowed” by an “exhausting” compensation battle. The WCS has now been ordered by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) to pay £25,000 to her widower, Thomas Tobierre, 71, and daughter Charlotte Tobierre, 40. Continue reading...

Exclusive: Winston Knight’s deportation order revoked by Home Office after a decade living on streets in Kingston

Gersham Williams, 74, was deported to Jamaica in 2016 but should have been exempt from order, Home Office decides A Windrush generation man who was wrongly excluded from the UK by the Home Office has had his deportation order revoked in the second case of its kind to come to light in the space of a week. Gersham Williams, 74, who first arrived in the UK in 1961 at the age of 10, was deported in August 2016 after being convicted of and serving a sentence in relation to a firearms conspiracy conviction. Continue reading...

Winston Jones, who for a decade was unable to return home from Jamaica, almost didn’t apply for compensation, fearing it was a trap

What's the problem? Until recently, migrants from outside the EU had physical documents to prove that they and their families could live, work or study in the UK. These could be physical cards or stam...

Euen Herbert says he was made homeless and placed in detention as a result of the Windrush scandal. But after managing to get himself out of holding by using self-taught law, he faces another hurdle

Survivors say their sense of self was shattered when the country they considered home rejected their presence

Physical residence permits proving right to live and work in Britain will cease to be valid at end of December

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