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.
Commissioning Inclusive Services: Practical steps towards inclusive JSNAs, JHWSs and commissioning for Gypsies, Travellers and Roma, homeless people, sex workers and vulnerable migrants
This guide will help to bring a greater focus on tackling health inequalities, by supporting Joint Strategic Needs Assessments and Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategies in identifying the needs of vulnerable groups, and setting clear priorities for how these can be met.
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Improving access to health care for Gypsies and Travellers, homeless people and sex workers
An evidence-based commissioning guide for Clinical Commissioning Groups and Health & Wellbeing Boards
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Bridging the Gap between Academics and Policy Makers, Crime and Punishment: Gypsies, Travellers and Roma in the criminal justice system (Full Report)
Thematic Meeting Report and Policy Guidance from a Council of Europe/European Academic Network on Romani Studies funded International Seminar.
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Bridging the Gap between Academics and Policy Makers, Crime and Punishment: Gypsies, Travellers and Roma in the criminal justice system (Executive Summary)
The executive summary of the Thematic Meeting Report and Policy Guidance from a Council of Europe/European Academic Network on Romani Studies funded International Seminar.
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HMP Ford Model of Good Practice for Gypsy, Traveller and Romany Report
The Ford model of Good Practice has been put together by inmates from Gypsy, Traveller, and Roma backgrounds to inspire improved practice in other prisons.
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Conference Report: Improving outcomes for offenders from Gypsy and Traveller communities
A conference report following the event hosted by Friends, Families and Travellers and the Black Training and Enterprise Group on the 21st January 2014 in Kings Cross London.
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Aiming High: Raising the Achievement of Gypsy Traveller Pupils
A Guide to Good Practice developed by the Department for Education and Skills.
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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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Every Child Matters, Green Paper 2003
Although this Green Paper does not mention Gypsy Traveller Young People directly, the effects of the paper are multi-agency and have a direct impact. The subsequent anaylsis of the paper, saw Gypsy and Traveller Young People are often categorised as hard-to-reach young people.
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