Raising Awareness: Romani Gypsy, Irish Traveller, Roma and Travelling Communities
Delivered by Friends, Families and Travellers, this session was aimed at all health and care professionals, regardless of profession or seniority.
This training covered:
- The cultures, traditions and histories of Romani Gypsy, Irish Traveller, Roma and Travelling Communities
- Diversity within Romani Gypsy, Irish Traveller, Roma and Travelling Communities
- Barriers to education, health, employment, accommodation, safeguarding and other public services
- Effectively engaging with Romani Gypsy, Irish Traveller, Roma and Travelling Communities in your work
Recording
Access the recording here and the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Histories video that was played in the session here.
Presentation
Resources
- FFT Briefing: Health Inequalities experienced by Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller Communities
- Guidance for Social Prescribing Link Workers on engaging with Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller Communities
- Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller communities experience of Infant Feeding – Information and Support Services
- Enablers of Digital Inclusion in Primary Care for Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller Communities
- How to reduce the risk of cancer: Information for Gypsies and Travellers
- How to tackle health inequalities in Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller communities: A guide for health and care services
- A research paper: Suicide Prevention in Gypsy and Traveller communities in England
- Digital Exclusion in Gypsy and Traveller communities in the United Kingdom
- No room at the inn: How easy is it for nomadic Gypsies and Travellers to access primary care?
- Education inequalities facing Gypsies, Roma, and Travellers in England
- Bullied, Not Believed and Blamed the Experiences of Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller Pupils: Recommendations for Schools and Other Settings
- The underrepresentation of Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller pupils in higher education A report on barriers from early years to secondary and beyond
- YouGov research highlights prejudice against Gypsies and Travellers in the UK
- 55% of British people surveyed unaware that over 500,000 Roma and Sinti people were killed in the Holocaust
- Hate: “As regular as Rain” A pilot research project into the psychological effects of hate crime on Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller (GTR) communities
- The Oak Project Overview – Improving Site Provision for Romany and Traveller Communities
- The Oak Project: Kicking the can down the road: The planning and provision of Gypsy and Traveller sites in England 1960-2023
- FFT Report: FOI reveals Devastating lack of transit site Provision
- Last on the list: An overview of unmet need for pitches on Traveller sites in England
- Police repeat calls for more sites, rejecting Home Office proposals to Criminalise Trespass
- No place to stop: Research on the five-year supply of deliverable Gypsy and Traveller sites in the South-East of England
- Government response to the consultation ‘Strengthening police powers to tackle unauthorised encampments’
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