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Windrush Day
Date Published: 19/06/2024
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In 2018, it emerged that some people from the Windrush Generation were facing deportation and being denied access to healthcare, work, housing benefits, and pensions. Whilst they had legal right to reside in the UK, many of them could not prove they had been in the country near-continuously; as new laws demanded.
There were also those who had arrived as children on a parent’s passport and when news of the Windrush Scandal broke, UK Government officials finally admitted that thousands of landing card slips recording their entry had been destroyed, eliminating vital evidence.
The Government went on to announce an annual Windrush Day to “recognise and honour the enormous contribution” of those who disembarked at Tilbury 70 years earlier and a compensation scheme for all those people affected. Alarmingly people are still being deported or have tragically passed away without (like most people affected) receiving any compensation payments. On Windrush Day, we recognise and thank the Windrush Generation, and their families, for the contributions they have made throughout British society and its post-war recovery.