The “woeful” compensation scheme for victims of the Windrush scandal must move faster amid “unacceptable” delays in payouts, according to a campaign backed by Baroness Doreen Lawrence and Annie Lennox ...

More than 100 lawyers and campaigners urge urgent reform of the compensation scheme as victims continue waiting for justice ...

Public figures sign open letter calling for scheme to be moved from Home Office to independent body ...

The Windrush compensation scheme has failed to repair a grave injustice and needs a significant overhaul, a Westminster inquiry into government compensation schemes heard on Monday. Survivors of the ...

Priti Patel’s Home Office should be stripped of responsibility for the Windrush compensation scheme, MPs said after a “litany of flaws” was identified in the way it operates. The cross-party Commons ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Carl Nwazota was born and grew up in the London suburb of Wembley to parents from Jamaica and Nigeria. For 26 years, he was a UK ...

Hundreds of people affected by the Windrush scandal are being forced to wait over a year for compensation, analysis shows ahead of the 75th anniversary of the voyage. The compensation scheme has been ...

The Home Office has unveiled new reforms to the Windrush compensation scheme to prioritise over-75s and grant advance payments during compensation reviews. Older and more vulnerable claimants will now ...