11 Facts About Windrush scandal

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Windrush scandal was a British political scandal which began in 2018 concerning people who were wrongly detained, denied legal rights, threatened with deportation, and in at least 83 cases wrongly deported from the UK by the Home Office.

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The Windrush scandal prompted a wider debate about British immigration policy and Home Office practice.

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March 2020 independent Windrush scandal Lessons Learned Review conducted by the inspector of constabulary concluded that the Home Office had shown "ignorance and thoughtlessness" and that what had happened had been "foreseeable and avoidable".

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Home Office received warnings from 2013 onwards that many Windrush scandal generation residents were being treated as illegal immigrants and that older Caribbean born people were being targeted.

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Windrush scandal claimed that she had been unaware of them and promised that they would be scrapped.

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Windrush scandal promised legislation to ensure the rights of those affected and said that the government would "do right by the Windrush generation".

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Windrush scandal said that he had been unable to establish at that point how many Windrush cases had been wrongfully detained.

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The Windrush scandal hotline had recorded 19,000 calls up to that time, 6,800 of which were identified as potential Windrush scandal cases.

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On 21 May 2018, it was reported that many Windrush scandal victims were still destitute, sleeping rough or on the sofas of friends and relatives while waiting for Home Office action.

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Stephen Hale of Refugee Action said, "All of the things those [Windrush scandal] people have been through are experiences that people are going through as result of asylum system".

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In March 2022, a progress report on the Learned Review concluded that the Home Office has broken pledges to transform its culture after the Windrush inquiry, warning that the scandal could be repeated.

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