EVENT 23rd Sept 2020: Windrush Next? In Memory of Paulette Wilson: Online Conference

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Supported with funds from Paul Hamlyn Foundation, The Windrush Next? Struggle for Justice series frames the 2018 ‘Windrush Scandal’ within a historical but forward-facing narrative, bringing together campaigners, people affected by the Windrush Scandal, race equality practitioners, cultural historians and lawyers. The culmination of this programme will be an online conference on 23 September.

Streamed live on YouTube.

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The event will:

Set Windrush in historical context
Explore ways to commemorate the Windrush period
Share experiences in response to the Windrush
Scandal and hostile/compliant environment
Reflect on the analysis and recommendations of the Lessons Learned Review

Outline:

Opening Address: special guest TBC
Panel 1: Windrush history and education
Panel 2: Hostile/compliant environment, immigration law and policy
Panel 3: Lessons Learned Review: what’s next?
Panel 4: Windrush Day commemorations Closing plenary

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Patrick Vernon is a social commentator and campaigner and has been at the forefront of several high-profile campaigns on cultural heritage and social justice in the UK over the last decade. He has used experience in senior management in the voluntary and public sector plus his passion in for cultural history to develop new models of thinking around transformation changes in service development, equalities, innovative thinking for social change. He is a trained life coach and mediator where his experience and knowledge has been used for leadership development and public speaking from grass roots organisations to public and private bodies.