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.
Gypsy Travellers and Education: Changing Needs and Changing Perceptions
This article explores Gypsies and Travellers’ changing views on their children’s education. Available for purchase only.
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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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Children’s Voices: Changing Futures
A study presenting a unique insight into the needs and experiences of children and young people from Travelling communities.
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Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Boys: Strategies for Success in School
The Milton Keynes Traveller Education Services have produced a to help schools better understand specific issues facing Gypsy, Roma and Traveller boys attending school.
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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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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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Denied a Future? The Right to Education of Roma, Gypsy and Traveller Children in Europe.
This report, compiled by Save the Children, discusses the educational inclusion of Gypsy and Traveller children in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (including Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Macedonia) and Romania.
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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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Supporting the Travelling Tradition: A report on the work of EFECOT in exploring the use of distance learning environments for children
The European Federation for the Education of the Children of Occupational Travellers (EFECOT) explores the use of interactive courseware within a telematics framework, in order to strengthen supported distance learning for the large numbers of European Fairground, Circus and Bargee children.
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Improving educational outcomes for Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Pupils: what works?
A research report by Anne Wilkin, Chris Derrington, Brian Foster, et al.
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European Roma History Factsheet
The Council of Europe has produced a collection of pedagogical fact sheets on Roma history, culture and language.
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Teaching Romany Gypsy History within Key Stages 1, 2 and 3
An educational resource developed by the Historical Association which lends itself to teaching Romany Gypsy history to students at Key Stages 1, 2 and 3.
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BBC Radio 2: Swings and Roundabouts
The fourth in the series of 2006 Radio Ballads, Swings and Roundabouts paints a musical and anecdotal portrait of the people who travel the country building and re-building their rides, always looking to attract customers to their machines.
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Scottish Education Resources
A range of Scottish educational reports on the STEP (Scottish Traveller Education Programme) website.
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Travellers Remember
A series of digital stories featuring the reminiscences of Traveller families and their lives in the 1960s and 1970s.
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