On 23 April 2018, JCWI and Liberty called for the appointment of an Independent Commission to review the workings of the Home Office and the legal framework of the ‘hostile environment’.
Alongside the call, JCWI and Liberty have published a Dossier of Failure, detailing the need for an Independent Commission into the systematic failures which culminated in the Windrush scandal.
JCWI and Liberty have decided to release the dossier following a private JCWI meeting with No 10 last week in which it became clear that the Prime Minister had no intention of dealing adequately with the failures that led to the Windrush scandal. Instead, No 10 used the meeting to attempt to obtain a public statement from JCWI backing the Home Office. JCWI refused to make such a statement.
The Dossier of Failure establishes:

The Home Office’s deliberate intent in creating the hostile environment which resulted in the Windrush scandal;
That the Home Office knew before and a…