The care system and Gypsies, Roma and Travellers: an investigation

01 Nov 2017

In the light of considerable and increasing concern amongst the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller (GRT) communities that there has been a ‘dramatic increase’ in ‘children taken into care’ or ‘forcibly adopted’ in recent years, the Traveller Movement has carried out an investigation to find out if this is an accurate assessment, or if a small number of high profile cases are causing undue concern to the community. In preparing this briefing the Traveller Movement has looked at the publically available statistics from the Department of Education1 and requested further information using the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to enable further analysis