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Travelling Ahead: supporting the rights and

participation of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller young people in Wales

Travelling Ahead

• Works across Wales
• Gypsy, Roma and Traveller children and young people
• Regional Forums - ensuring young peoples voices are heard and can

influence policy and practice

• National Forum annually for young people
• Education Good Practice Project
• Tackling bulling and hate crime pilot project
• Tackling negative media

Experiences of bullying

• Numerous research studies find that racist bullying and

discrimination is commonplace for Gypsy, Roma and Traveller children in the UK

• 2014 study found nine out of ten GRT children

experience bullying at school

• Big Fat Gypsy Wedding increases bullying and name

calling in schools (Foster 2014))

• Key factor impacting on parents lack of trust in school

and pupils experience of school

• Attendance is the key factor in low attainment

Peer Education Research

Young people tell Travelling Ahead in their Good Practice project on education 2014-15 that:

• Name calling and sometimes physical attacks are still

experienced and remain everyday experiences

• Schools do not confidently tackle racist bullying against

them – some teachers perpetuate it

• Teachers do not have enough knowledge / training

about their history and culture

• Trusted staff who build up relationships with their

families and can support them at school are essential

Resources

Travelling Ahead tackling hate crime resources made by young people https://vimeo.com/97508610 and more coming soon Guide to reporting negative media for GRT young people https://www.childcomwales.org.uk/en/gypsy-and-traveller-media-guide/ Travelling Together – a curriculum resource http://learning.gov.wales/resources/browse-all/travelling- together/?lang=en ‘One Goal’ & a new toolkit for teachers to support Gypsy, Roma & Traveller children in schools www.srtrc.org

Get in touch

Trudy Aspinwall Rhiannon Jones

Trav avel ellin ing g Ahead ad trav avel ellin ingahe gahead@sa ad@savethec vethechi hildren.org.uk dren.org.uk www.t w.travel ravellin ingahead.org gahead.org.uk .uk 02920 920 39683 838 8 0 77 88 88 412 760