On Saturday 16th of December, young people from St Michael’s Way Traveller site in Horsdean, East Sussex raised over £300 for Brighton Community Night Shelter by carol singing at Churchill Square. The young people dressed up […]
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As part of an ongoing campaign around social care, outreach staff and caseworkers from FFT have created a guide for advocates who are supporting Gypsy and Traveller families experiencing Children’s Services intervention. The guide contains an
Today, Tuesday 12th December, the Advice and Policy team at Friends, Families and Travellers (FFT) released a report which shows that government is failing to address a chronic shortage of Gypsy and Traveller sites nationally. In
Yesterday morning, there was a debate in Westminster Hall entitled ‘Illegal Gypsy and Traveller Encampments: Bedfordshire’. This debate comes after two other recent debates on this topic, on the 9th October ‘Gypsies and Travellers and Local Communities’
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I heard Monday’s parliamentary debate on Gypsies and Travellers with dismay but not surprise. A few MPs grasped the wider issues intelligently but most used six hours of parliamentary time to moan about the 1% of
On 10th October 2017, the government launched its Race Disparity Audit website entitled ‘Ethnicity Facts and Figures’. The aim of the Race Disparity Audit is to find information about the different experiences of people from a
Every four and a half years United Nations member states have their human rights records analysed as part of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process. It was the UK Government’s turn in 2017. We submitted a
As part of The World Transformed, FFT are hosting a meeting chaired by Kate Green M.P. at Community Base, 113 Queens Road, Brighton BN1 3XG, on Tuesday 26th September at 6.30pm. Someone from FFT will be
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On 8th September 2017, David Lammy published the final version of the Lammy Report, a review of the treatment of, and outcomes for, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) individuals in the criminal justice system. The
