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.
Friends, Families and Travellers Annual Report 2024
Here’s our Annual Report 2024!
This year, we helped people with over 4,300 issues, distributed over 90,000GB worth of data, and trained over 1900 people on making their services more inclusive. Read to find out what else we got up to.
View the reportGood Things Foundation: Digital exclusion & health inequalities
Report on digital exclusion and health inequalities from the Good Things Foundation.
Access the resourceEnablers of digital inclusion in primary care for Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Communities
A report providing insights into the extent of digital exclusion for Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities, and key enablers to support digital inclusion, with guidance on improving inclusivity, produced as part of the VCSE Health and Wellbeing Alliance Programme by Roma Support Group and Friends, Families and Travellers.
Access the resource‘What matters to us’: Gypsy, Roma and Traveller people on what they want to see from the next government
In the run up to the General Election 2024, we launched an engagement campaign for Gypsies, Travellers, and Roma to share their views about what people want to see from the next Government.
Access the resourceSubmission to the 113th Session for Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) on the rights of Gypsies, Roma and Travellers in the UK
Evidence for CERD regarding the UK Government’s actions, or lack thereof, to ensure that the rights of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller people are upheld in line with the Articles contained within the Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
Access the resourceFFT 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 reportHow to be an ally to Gypsy, Traveller, Roma, Showmen and Boater communities
An infographic co-produced by a group of students, staff and alumni from Northumbria University on how to be an ally to Gypsy, Roma, Traveller, Showmen and Boater communities.
View the reportBriefing: 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 reportBriefing: Race hate and prejudice faced by Gypsies and Travellers in England
A briefing covering race hate and prejudice issues facing Gypsies and Travellers 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 reportFriends, 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 reportRight to Remember: A Handbook for Education with Young People on the Roma Genocide
This handbook is a self-contained educational resource to serve teachers as well as NGOs and youth organisations, to work with young people on the remembrance of the Roma Genocide.
Access the resourceShadow 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.