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1. The Home Office’s Comprehensive Improvement Plan (September 2020), published in response to the Windrush Lessons Learned Review, sets out the ambition of building a ‘fairer, more compassionate Home Office’, that puts people first and sees the ‘face behind the case.’ Do you think the Home Office has made progress towards this ambition?
In its response to the WLLR, the Home Office committed to building a fairer, more compassionate department that “sees the face behind the case.” However, JCWI remains concerned that the department in fact appears to have moved in the opposite direction, demonstrating increased hostility to scrutiny and increasingly dangerous and inhumane decision-making that flies in the face of the entire spirit of the recommendations of the WLLR. “The sincerity of the Home Office’s apology for the harm caused by the Windrush scandal will be determined b…