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Healthwatch Dorset has gathered insights from communities to mark the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History Month.
Scotland’s First Minister has apologised to Gypsy Travellers for the “unfair and unjust policies” that caused them “trauma” ...
Healthwatch Dorset marks Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History Month by sharing GRT community voices, highlighting heritage, ...
Scotland's First Minister has formally apologised to the gypsy traveller community for the decades of trauma they suffered ...
Plans have been lodged to create a new Gypsy and Traveller site near a Bucks town. Proposals have been submitted to Buckinghamshire Council for new caravan site made up of four pitches between ...
Families in the settlement huts did not have hot running water or electricity until around 2010 and there were serious sewage issues. Today, families living in Scotland's three Gypsy-Traveller ...
The report, based on research from the University of St Andrews, found that the types of accommodation gypsy travellers were relocated to were "known by government agents to be substandard".
With Gypsy Travellers in Holyrood’s public gallery, Mr Swinney continued: “As First Minister of Scotland, I want to say this directly to Gypsy Traveller communities: the ‘tinker experiments ...
Efforts to assimilate Gypsy-Travellers into Scottish society were first documented in the 1800s, but escalated with the Tinker Experiment from 1940 to 1980, when families were told their children ...
June 25, 2025 at 6:19pm BST. A campaigner has lauded the First Minister’s apology over the “cultural genocide” of Gypsy Travellers in Scotland as a “significant milestone” for her community.