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.
Personal Health Budgets: The Power of Partnerships
A blog by Rebecca Tempest, NHS England.
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Friends, Families and Travellers Annual Report 2015 – 2016
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A guide for professionals working with Gypsies, Roma and Travellers in Childrens Services
This guide was produced to help professionals working in Childrens Services to enhance their cultural competency and working practice when engaging with families from the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities.
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Impact of universal credit and welfare reforms on the Gypsy and Traveller communities
A report by the Irish Traveller Movement in Britain and Leeds GATE.
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Provision and support for Traveller pupils, Ofsted, 2003
This report provides a background to the provision and support for education to Gypsy and Traveller pupils.
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What does the 2011 Census tell us about the characteristics of Gypsy or Irish travellers in England and Wales?
For the first time the 2011 Census included a tick box for Gypsy or Irish Travellers (not Roma). Read the analysis of the results produced by the Office for National Statistics
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Human Rights and Gypsies and Travellers: An Exploration of the Application of a Human Rights Perspective to Social Work with a Minority Community in Britain
In this paper, Sarah Cemlyn explores the relationship between human rights social work and issues facing Gypsies and Travellers, and argues that work with these groups cannot be properly understood outside a human rights framework.
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Assimilation, control, mediation or advocacy? Social work dilemmas in providing anti-oppressive services for Traveller children and families
In this paper, Sarah Cemlyn explores dilemmas facing social work in England in providing anti-oppressive services for Travellers, particularly those who lack secure sites.
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From neglect to partnership? Challenges for social services in promoting the welfare of Traveller children
In this paper, Sarah Cemlyn explores current and potential directions in social services’ provision for Traveller children, drawing on a Nuffield-funded study.
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Room to Roam: England’s Irish Travellers by Action Group for Irish Youth
This research project investigates the condition of the Irish Traveller community in England. It was designed to develop new information and research about the experiences of Irish Travellers in England in their relationships with health, welfare, criminal justice and educational agencies.
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Prejudice and Pride
This report and DVD by Jake Bowers and Ormiston Children and Families Trust report and DVD looks at the issues and opinions of Young Traveller children in Cambridge.
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Travellers listen to Travellers
This is an account by Sian Peer of a drugs information project aimed at young people, developed by and for Travelling communities within Cambridgeshire. Available on Amazon.
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The Value of Play
A booklet published by the Cambridgeshire Traveller Initiative, Ormiston Children and Family Trust.
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Child Poverty Relating to Gypsy and Traveller Children and Young People in Sussex
A report written by FFT looking at child poverty relating to Gypsy and Traveller children and young people in Sussex.
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Having Our Say
A peer research project with young Gypsies and Travellers in Scotland on the topics of accommodation, health, learning and discrimination.
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