Policy & Publications
This section will help you to search for policy, publications and information on issues affecting Gypsies and Travellers. Use the filter on the left hand side to refine your search.
FFT Strategic Plan 2023-2026
Our Strategic Plan is a guide to our key purpose and direction over the next three years, covering the period April 2023 to end March 2026.
View the reportExecutive Summary | Kicking the can down the road: The planning and provision of Gypsy and Traveller sites in England 1960-2023
[Executive Summary] Gypsies and Travellers are an important part of Britain’s population, heritage and social fabric. Providing well-designed and managed sites for Gypsies and Travellers supports happy and healthy communities and addresses wider determinants of health, education and employment. This report written by Dr Simon Ruston MRTPI is concerned with the provision of Gypsy and Traveller sites through theplanning system since 1960, with a specific focus on the period from 1994 to the present day. View the reportKicking the can down the road: The planning and provision of Gypsy and Traveller sites in England 1960-2023
Gypsies and Travellers are an important part of Britain’s population, heritage and social fabric. Providing well-designed and managed sites for Gypsies and Travellers supports happy and healthy communities and addresses wider determinants of health, education and employment. This report written by Dr Simon Ruston MRTPI is concerned with the provision of Gypsy and Traveller sites through theplanning system since 1960, with a specific focus on the period from 1994 to the present day.
View the reportLeeds Baseline Census 2004-05
This research constitutes the first attempt to establish baseline demographic data about the Gypsy and Traveller communities in Leeds.
Read moreBriefing: Economic and financial exclusion Gypsies and Travellers experience in England
A briefing covering the economic and financial exclusion Gypsies and Travellers experience in England.
View the reportWritten evidence for the 2023 Pre-Sessional Working Group Report to the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
A submission of evidence on upholding the rights of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller people to the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
View the reportCommunications Guide for New Local Authority and other Socially Rented Traveller Sites
This short communications guide is for local authorities, Registered Providers and other Traveller Site Providers in England to use when thinking about developing a permanent or transit site/ temporary stopping place for Gypsies, Travellers and Travelling Show people.
Access the resourceNational Policy Advisory Panel: Places we’re proud of
This short guide shares some key lessons and strong examples to prompt more housing associations and local authorities to get involved in providing good quality sites for Gypsies and Travellers.
Access the resourceFriends, Families and Travellers Annual Report 2022
This report gives an overview of some of the achievements that FFT have had over the 2022 period in supporting Gypsies, Roma and Travellers by providing practical advice and legal support and ensuring the protection of the right to pursue a nomadic way of life.
View the reportBriefing: Accommodation issues facing Gypsies and Travellers in England
A briefing covering accommodation issues facing Gypsies and Travellers in England
View the reportA Short Guide to the Policing Act 2022
This is a short guide for Gypsies and Travellers in understanding the new powers relating to roadside camps in the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022.
View the reportShadow Report to the Universal Periodic Review Working Group and UN Member States: Focus Report on Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Communities
This document reports on the progress or deterioration of the enjoyment of human rights of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller people, structured by areas of life in which discrimination and barriers are routinely encountered, for the Fourth Cycle of the Universal Periodic Review.
Access the resourceAlternative Report to the Advisory Committee for the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities: Focus Report on Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities
This report focuses on the Council of Europe Advisory Committee for the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities Recommendations and related Articles under the 4th cycle of scrutiny.
Access the resourceRoma and Travellers: Council of Europe Thematic Factsheet
The present factsheet provides examples of general and individual measures reported by States in European Court’s judgments, concerning: access to justice, right to respect for private and family life, including issues related to forced sterilisation of Roma women,
protection from hate crime and housing rights, protection of property and right to education.
Friends, Families and Travellers Annual Report 2021
This report gives an overview of some of the achievements that FFT have had over the 2021 period in supporting Gypsies, Roma and Travellers by providing practical advice and legal support and ensuring the protection of their right to pursue a nomadic way of life.
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