Today (1 June) marks the 40th anniversary of the Battle of the Beanfield, where over 600 New Travellers were subjected to excessive, humiliating and brutal police violence. On the morning of 1 June 1985, a peaceful […]
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Today, NHS England has taken a significant positive step by recommending that health bodies across the UK include Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller people in patient data, aligning records with the 2021 census, in cases where “the design
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Today, a new summary report from Friends, Families and Travellers (FFT) highlights the widespread failure of local authorities across the UK to provide safe, legal and accessible transit sites for Gypsy and Traveller communities, despite long–standing
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Today, Friends, Families and Travellers (FFT) and a coalition of 22 civil society leaders, including Amnesty UK, Liberty, Quakers in Britain, Homeless Link, Right to Roam and wider Gypsy and Traveller civil society, have written to
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Today, Friends, Families and Travellers (FFT) produced a new briefing in collaboration with Amnesty International on the barriers Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities face when accessing social security, despite legal protections under UK law, including the
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Today, Friends, Families and Travellers, in collaboration with Roma Support Group and the Health and Wellbeing Alliance, released a new series of co-developed and co-produced resources exploring some of the questions parents of young infants may
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Today, Friends, Families and Travellers (FFT) launched a series of voting resources co-produced with Romany Gypsy, Roma and Traveller people along with Roma Support Group (RSG), in partnership with the Electoral Commission. Following changes to voting
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Today, Friends, Families and Travellers (FFT) launched #Part4NoMore, a national campaign calling for the repeal of Part 4 of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts (PCSC) Act 2022. Parliament is currently debating a new Crime and
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Today, Friends, Families and Travellers (FFT) is proud to announce that it has been awarded the Advice Quality Standard (AQS) accreditation, a nationally recognised benchmark for excellence in advice services. AQS accreditation demonstrates that FFT has
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