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Out in the Open: Providing Accommodation, Promoting Understanding and Recognising Rights of Gypsies and Travellers

Out in the Open: Providing Accommodation, Promoting Understanding and Recognising Rights of Gypsies and Travellers

          
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The rights of Gypsies and Travellers to pursue their way of life are enshrined in national and international legislation. Experience has shown, however, that these rights are rarely upheld or supported in practice. Gypsies and Travellers have the poorest life chances of any ethnic group in the UK and face widespread discrimination. Provision of suitable accommodation has a vital role to play in supporting the long-established way of life of Gypsies and Travellers and in enabling them to have a recognised stake in society. Twenty-one per cent of all nomadic Gypsy and Traveller households are homeless, having no legal place to park their caravan. Less than one square mile of land would be needed in the whole of England to provide these 4,000 homeless Gypsy and Traveller households with a permanent pitch.The real barriers to achieving this seemingly easy target have little to do with housing or planning issues; they are much deeper rooted and relate to the prejudice and negative attitudes towards Gypsies and Travellers in the wider community. It is now recognised that the provision of sufficient authorised and well-serviced sites for Gypsies and Travellers lies at the heart of addressing the difficulties they face in accessing services, as well as reducing tensions with the local settled communities and beginning to tackle ignorance and discrimination. The government has recognised the problem and is seeking to address it with a new policy framework, which is still in its early stages.A Consultation was organised by the Building and Social Housing Foundation (BSHF) at St George's House, Windsor Castle, to identify practical ways in which housing organisations and other public bodies can work together with Gypsies and Travellers and local communities to provide appropriate accommodation and support for their chosen way of life, as well as promoting respect and understanding between Gypsies and Travellers and other members of the public. Persons of experience and expertise were brought together for three days in order to share and develop ideas as to how to meet this challenge.The report contains a series of recommendations for action which address five key areas for action: providing authorised sites to meet urgent short-term accommodation needs until the government's new policy framework has delivered the additional permanent sites to meet Gypsy and Traveller accommodation needs; addressing the lack of political will across all levels of the political spectrum to tackle the existing widespread discrimination against Gypsies and Travellers; integrating Gypsy and Traveller rights and needs into existing policies and mainstream services, with a particular focus on improving the education and health outcomes of travelling communities; and, obtaining accurate and wide-ranging information to inform policy, counteract misinformation in the media and enable the sharing of good practice. It also includes a recommendation for recognising the opportunities provided by working in partnership with Gypsy and Traveller communities, as well as social housing providers and landowners to improve the availability and choice of accommodation.

Table of Contents:
INTRODUCTION 1WHO ARE GYPSIES AND TRAVELLERS? 3Defining Gypsies and Travellers 3Gypsy and Traveller history and culture 3Problems faced by Gypsies and Travellers 4PROVIDING ACCOMMODATION 7Where do Gypsies and Travellers currently live? 7Increasing the number of available sites 10Provision and location of sites 11Improving choice 15Meeting urgent accommodation needs in the short term 16Working with local authorities 17PROMOTING UNDERSTANDING 21Addressing the lack of information and reducing misinformation 21Partnership working with Gypsies and Travellers 24Developing and supporting political will 26Improving understanding through mediation 29RECOGNISING RIGHTS 31Tackling racism and discrimination 32Promoting equality of opportunity 35RECOMMENDATIONS 41Central government: Communities and Local Government (CLG) 43Other central government departments 44Commission for Equality and Human Rights (CEHR) 45Local government 46Police 47Other 47SOURCES OF FURTHER INFORMATION 49Relevant organisations 49Reports and publications 52PARTICIPANTS AT THE CONSULTATION 54


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  • ISBN-13: 9781901742022
  • Publisher: Building & Social Housing Foundation
  • Publisher Imprint: Building & Social Housing Foundation
  • Height: 210 mm
  • Width: 210 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1901742024
  • Publisher Date: 29 Oct 2007
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Sub Title: Providing Accommodation, Promoting Understanding and Recognising Rights of Gypsies and Travellers


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