NOTES: THE CASE FOR INDEPENDENT ADMINISTRATION OF THE WINDRUSH COMPENSATION SCHEME.

After the implementation of the United Kingdom's "hostile environment" immigration policies, many members of the Windrush Generation were wrongly classified as illegal immigrants by the U.K. Home Office. Those affected lost access to housing, employment, medical care, and more. In 2018, the U.K. Home Office publicly apologized and promised to compensate victims. The Windrush Compensation Scheme launched in 2019. As of January 2023, it has compensated just under thirteen percent of the anticipated claimants. The failures of the Scheme are inextricable from the historically complex relationship between the Home Office and the Windrush Generation. Evidence of this distrust manifests most prominently in allegations of racial bias within the Scheme, insufficient support for claimants from the Home Office, and unreasonable delays in the compensation process. The Home Office has yet to meaningfully address the systemic racial bias that caused the Windrush Scandal in the first place and is thus unfit to administer the scheme. The Windrush Compensation Scheme can only be justly administered by an independent body. Such an independent body should be comprised of professionals who have been supporting the Windrush community while this community's rights were stripped away by hostile environment policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]