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.
Life on and off the hard shoulder: Older Gypsies living on the roadside and in housing
A study from Derbyshire Gypsy Liaison Group on the lives and experiences of older Gypsies and Travellers living nomadically and in bricks and mortar.
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Friends, Families and Travellers Annual Report 2018-2019
Read this report for an overview of FFT’s achievements between 2018-19 providing advice and legal support to Gypsies, Roma and Travellers and developing evidence-based research to build campaigns raising the public awareness of the inequalities faced by Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities.
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Community Practitioners: Championing health inclusion for forgotten populations
Margaret Greenfields writes for the Queen’s Nursing Institute on how health practitioners can ensure their services are more inclusive for Gypsy, Traveller and Boater communities.
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VCSE Inclusion Health Audit Tool
An online tool created by Friends, Families and Travellers, Homeless Link, and other members of the Health and Wellbeing Alliance for VCSE organisations to measure their engagement with inclusion health groups.
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Migrant Roma in the United Kingdom: Populations size and experiences of local authorities and partners
University of Salford researchers produced this report to build a greater awareness about Roma communities in the UK and to identify the areas where local authorities and Roma communities may need support building positive outcomes.
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Civil society monitoring report on implementation of the national Roma integration strategy in the United Kingdom: Assessing progress in key policy areas of the strategy
Prepared by the National Federation of Gypsy Liaison Groups, FFT and other NGOs this report makes recommendations to the UK Government to establish a National Roma Integration Strategy in key policy areas.
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Experiences of Gypsies and Travellers in primary care: GP surgeries
As part of our work on the VCSE Health and Wellbeing Alliance, we interviewed forty members of Gypsy and Traveller communities on their experience with registering at GPs, making appointments and perceptions of how well medical concepts are explained.
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Healthwatch Kent, spotlight series: Gypsy & Traveller communities
Healthwatch Kent reflects on programme to improve healthcare provision to Gypsies and Travellers in Kent.
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Friends, Families and Travellers Newsletter: June 2019
June Newsletter: FFT shortlisted for RSPH Award, government strategy news, lunch with the Queen and much more…
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Friends, Families and Travellers Newsletter: May 2019
May Newsletter: Mental Health of Young People, Timpson Review, Gypsy Roma Traveller History Month and much more…
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Barriers to belonging: An exploration of loneliness among people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds
This Runnymede Trust survey on loneliness found that Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities are greater vulnerability to loneliness than some other ethnic groups because of their experiences of racial discrimination.
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Sunbed use and skin care in Gypsy and Traveller communities
Through the use of questionnaires, face-to-face engagement, focus groups and online polls FFT’s Samson Rattigan sought to find out levels of sunbed usage in Gypsy and Traveller communities, awareness of the risks of sunbed use and the most effective ways of raising awareness of the dangers of sunbeds.
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Report of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance
The United Nations Special Rapporteur report highlights racial disparities in education, employment, housing, health and criminal justice, with recommendations to address these inequalities.
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Tackling inequalities faced by Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities
A House of Commons report from the Women and Equalities Committee assessing the experience of inequality among Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities.
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Gypsy, Roma and Traveller men and mental health
FFT submission to the Women and Equalities Committee around the challenges experienced by Gypsy, Roma and Traveller men around mental health.
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