Human Rights Watch on Thursday claimed the British Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman’s findings of severe issues with the Home Office’s management of the Windrush Compensation Scheme has “wider implications” for everyone accessing compensation.

“The ombudsman’s decision illustrates once again that the Home Office’s Windrush Compensation Scheme is not fit for purpose and is compounding the suffering of Windrush survivors,” Almaz Teffera, researcher on racism in Europe at Human Rights Watch, stated.

The ombudsman’s recent findings reveal how enactment of the compensation scheme as fallen short of its goals. The framework of the compensation scheme was developed after an expos é was released in late 2017 detailing the Windrush scandal, in which the Home Office had wrongly

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