costs because it was unclear how many people will apply.

Satbir Singh, chief executive of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, said the announcement was "short on detail".

"While we welcome the creation of a compensation scheme, we know that money cannot buy back the years the victims have lost to destitution and anguish - nor can it compensate for the despair they felt at losing jobs, homes, health and a sense of identity and rightful pride in their contribution to the UK", he said.

'Validate the emotional distress'

One of those caught up in the scandal, Glenda Caesar, lost her job as a NHS administrator at a doctors surgery because she no longer had a British passport to prove her identity.

She told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme she "couldn'tschools using the School Renaissance program achieved statistically significant higher standardized test scores when compared with two comparison schools that only used the Renaissance program in a limited way. Because so many schools in the United States are using Accelerated Reader, it was difficult for the authors of this study to find two schools in Georgia that were not already using Accelerated Reader. The authors noted:

"In all nine comparisons involving standardized test scores in reading, language arts, and mathematics, the Renaissance schools' children outperformed the contrast school's children. It can only be concluded that the Renaissance program was highly effective in raising the performance of these elementary students."

In 2003, Samuels and Wu found that, after six months, third- and fifth-grade students who used Accelerated Reader demonstrated twice the