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Joint meeting between the GRT & Bullying All Party Parliamentary Groups June 2018
Main discussion points of the meeting: “Teachers give up hope once they realise a child is a Traveller” – Christina Kerrigan, community development and partnerships officer at the Traveller Movement. “A lot of the law is being ignored” when it comes to schools...
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Michael Ridge: a tribute to the man and his work
Michael Ridge: a tribute to the man and his work By Jenny Daly Michael Ridge, who died unexpectedly in July, was a social worker of exceptional skill, integrity and kindness. Since 2000, he worked relentlessly in the Haringey Travelling People’s...
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With a coordinated effort we can offer an education system more inclusive to Gypsy, Roma and Traveller children
A roundtable event, organised by the Traveller Movement, the Children’s Commissioner for England and hosted by Kate Green MP met on Wednesday 29 June in the Houses of Parliament to discuss the disproportionately high number of exclusions given to Gypsy, Traveller and...
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The Traveller Movement responds to the EHRC ‘Healing a divided Britain’ report
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General Election June 2017
Now a General Election has been called on the 8th June, the Traveller Movement will be campaigning to ensure Gypsies Travellers and Roma have their voices heard and are not used as a political football by those wanting to be elected. If you want to have your voice...
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Celebrating Gypsy, Roma and Traveller’s History Month
The Traveller Movement GRTHM Exhibition is being held throughout the month of June and July. The exhibition is being held at the Resource for London, in Holloway Road where the Traveller Movement Offices. We are celebrating with an art exhibition displaying culture,...
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The last acceptable form of racism?
The Traveller Movement’s research, ‘The last acceptable form of racism?’, is the most extensive of its kind and sheds new light into Gypsy, Roma and Traveller (GRT) people’s experience of prejudice and discrimination in areas such as education, employment, healthcare...
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New YouGov poll finds shocking racism toward Gypsies and Travellers
Only four out of ten parents (41%) in Great Britain would be happy for their child go to the home of a child who is a Gypsy/Traveller for a playdate and over one in four adults (42%) in Britain said they would be unhappy with a close relative having a long-term...
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LGBT support
The Traveller Movement has launched a new campaign to raise awareness of LGBT people within the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller (GRT) communities. The initiative is the first of its kind in the UK and aims to challenge homophobic attitudes within the GRT community as well...
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Worried about your child being taken into care? Advice and new research
Information guide Are you worried about your child being taken into care? Not sure who to turn to for help? Well we’ve created a helpful guide for Gypsy, Roma and Traveller families and the organisations that work with them. This has been put together with input from...
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Wheels in Motion, TM Newsletter, Winter 2017
Brexit and Irish citizens in the UK: how to safeguard the rights of Irish citizens in an uncertain future
The paper examines what would happen to the rights of Irish citizens under UK law, if the UK were to end the special status of EU citizens before putting in to place legal provisions to protect the rights of the 381,000 people of Irish birth currently living in the UK. This includes many Irish Travellers who hold Irish citizenship.
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