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Patrick Vernon

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Patrick Vernon talks Windrush compensation scheme with BBC Sounds

Patrickvernon.org.uk 4 years ago

Listen to Patrick Vernon on BBC Sounds with Jeanette Kwakye talking about the Windrush Compensation scheme and the call for the scheme to be transferred to an independent organisation to “rebuild trust”.


Click here to Listen to the replay on BBC Sounds starts 2:37

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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.

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