Tomorrow, the Charity Awards 2021 will take place and the Friends, Families and Travellers (FFT) Health Champions project is in the running for the Children and Youth category award. The awards will recognise charities whose work […]
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A landmark ruling today marks the end of wide anti-Traveller injunctions against “persons unknown”. The judgment harshly criticises the use of wide injunctions as a blanket ban against Gypsies and Travellers who have nowhere to stop.
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On Monday 19th April, the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Gypsies, Travellers and Roma held an online event to discuss the impact of Part 4 of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill on Gypsy
Today marks one year since Channel 4’s ‘Dispatches: The Truth About Traveller Crime’ first aired. The programme promoted highly damaging tropes of Gypsy and Traveller communities. Following its airing, the show received widespread criticism and a
On the 8th March, the Home Secretary Priti Patel grossly misrepresented the reality of the Government’s provision of Gypsy and Traveller sites to Parliament. In the Home Secretary’s Ministerial Statement, Priti Patel said, “As of January
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Today, Friends, Families and Travellers launch a range of materials to support staff working in health and care settings to support Gypsy and Traveller people access the Covid-19 vaccine. We have also created guidance for Gypsy
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Today, the Government released its Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities report. Friends, Families and Travellers is completely disappointed, but not shocked, that the Government have once again opted to glaze over the experiences of Black,
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Today, Friends, Families and Travellers (FFT) release findings from the largest ever UK study on the health experiences of Liveaboard Boaters. The landmark research reveals that 37% of Boaters have been wrongfully refused registration at GP
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Yesterday, 23rd March 2021, members of the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Gypsies, Travellers and Roma launched an early day motion with a request for the House of Commons to debate the criminalisation of trespass
