{"id":3012,"date":"2020-03-13T16:01:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T16:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/windrush-scandal-explained"},"modified":"2020-03-13T16:01:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T16:01:00","slug":"windrush-scandal-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/windrush-scandal-explained","title":{"rendered":"Windrush scandal explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who are the Windrush generation?\u00a0<br \/>\nThe \u2018Windrush\u2019 generation are those who arrived in the UK from Caribbean countries between 1948 and 1973. Many took up jobs in the nascent NHS and other sectors affected by Britain\u2019s post-war\u00a0labour\u00a0shortage. The name \u2018Windrush\u2019 derives from the \u2018HMT Empire Windrush\u2019 ship which brought one of the first large groups of Caribbean people to the UK in 1948. As the Caribbean was, at the time, a part of the British commonwealth, those who arrived were automatically British subjects and free to permanently live and work in the UK.\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\nWhat is the Windrush scandal?\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Windrush scandal began to surface in 2017 after it emerged that hundreds of Commonwealth citizens, many of whom were from the \u2018Windrush\u2019 generation, had been wrongly detained, deported and denied legal rights. Coverage of these individuals\u2019 stories began to break in several newspapers, and Caribbean&#8230;<br \/><embed style=\"cursor: pointer;\" src=\"\" type=\"\"><\/embed><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who are the Windrush generation?\u00a0 The \u2018Windrush\u2019 generation are those who arrived in the UK from Caribbean countries between 1948 and 1973. Many took up jobs in the nascent NHS and other sectors affected by Britain\u2019s post-war\u00a0labour\u00a0shortage. The name \u2018Windrush\u2019 derives from the \u2018HMT Empire Windrush\u2019 ship which brought one of the first large groups&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3012"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}