Equality, diversity and inclusion’.
Alexandra Ankrah a former barrister and senior Home Office employee quit her position. Because her former colleagues showed a lack of empathy.
The proposals that Alexandra put forward to address the Windrush scandal were rejected.
There were complaints of racism and discrimination within Home Office teams
The programme was “not supportive of people who have been victims”.
And “does not acknowledge victim’s trauma”
The Windrush Compensation scheme was set up to compensate Windrush victims.
The compensation scheme has been running from October, and for the 18 months, £1.6m to date only paid 196 people.
Officials had expected thousands to apply.
And estimated that the government might have to pay out between £200m and £570m.
At least nine people have died before receiving the compensation they applied for.
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