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POlicy
“No Space for Hate”
Thanks to funding from Awards for All we are pleased to announce that we are running a project (“No Space for Hate”) which aims to address hate crime, initially in the Birmingham area. This project, which aims to bring together ethnic and faith communities to look at race hate crime and what we as citizens and community members can do to combat it, will ensure that “anti-Gypsyism” is not excluded when people are talking about hate crime and/or racism. Our approach aims to be proactive: to take action to prevent hate crime arising in the first place rather than solely responding to it when it occurs. Document here
Thanks to funding from Awards for All we are pleased to announce that we are running a project (“No Space for Hate”) which aims to address hate crime, initially in the Birmingham area. This project, which aims to bring together ethnic and faith communities to look at race hate crime and what we as citizens and community members can do to combat it, will ensure that “anti-Gypsyism” is not excluded when people are talking about hate crime and/or racism. Our approach aims to be proactive: to take action to prevent hate crime arising in the first place rather than solely responding to it when it occurs. Document here
Affordable Homes Programme
“Traveller pitch” funding is to be restored to the Affordable Homes programme (from which it had previously been omitted) via an Addendum to be produced in January 2017. As with the previous Affordable Homes programme this funding will not be “ring fenced” and, as we know from bitter experience, just because it may be possible to bid for funding to develop new sites/provide new pitches doesn’t mean that that will necessarily happen. On a more positive note though, at least funding for new pitches is back in the frame. See here for a piece by NFGLG Policy Officer Adrian Jones in TAT News E Bulletin - No 35 - Christmas 2016. Document here
“Traveller pitch” funding is to be restored to the Affordable Homes programme (from which it had previously been omitted) via an Addendum to be produced in January 2017. As with the previous Affordable Homes programme this funding will not be “ring fenced” and, as we know from bitter experience, just because it may be possible to bid for funding to develop new sites/provide new pitches doesn’t mean that that will necessarily happen. On a more positive note though, at least funding for new pitches is back in the frame. See here for a piece by NFGLG Policy Officer Adrian Jones in TAT News E Bulletin - No 35 - Christmas 2016. Document here
Improving health outcomes for GRT communities
NFGLG's Policy Officer Adrian Jones recently spoke on improving health outcomes for Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities at the "Health and Diversity in Birmingham" event link
NFGLG's Policy Officer Adrian Jones recently spoke on improving health outcomes for Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities at the "Health and Diversity in Birmingham" event link
Our policy work includes:
1. Responding to Government consultations. This has included:
• Child Poverty Strategy 2014-17
• European Social Fund Operational Programme for England 2014-2010
• Gypsy and Traveller Accommodation Needs Assessments and proposed change to the planning definition of “travellers”
Documents here and here.
Download the document below by clicking on them
• Tackling the hidden economy: Sanctions
• 3rd Universal Periodic Review of the UK 2017
• Tackling inequalities faced by Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities – Parliamentary Inquiry
We will be putting our responses to all consultations as they arise on this site.
2. Engagement with (and input into) the national policy agenda via:
• Gypsy and Traveller Liaison Group in the Department for Communities and Local Government - this group enables the community to raise issues of concern and to set the agenda, rather than being solely reactive.
• All Party Parliamentary Group
• Department for Business Innovation and Skills re. 'Skills for the most socially disadvantaged' and “engagement and progression of very disadvantaged adults in vocational learning”.
• The Community Law Partnership-led Gypsy and Traveller Consultations and Inquiries Group
• National Scrutiny Panel: Hate Crime Affecting Gypsy, Traveller And Roma Communities
3. Development work: we are still working with a small number of groups to help them to obtain the funding that will enable them to inform policy making.
Presentation at the European Parliament 2nd December 2014
NFGLG Policy Officer gave a presentation at the European Parliament based on the Civil Monitoring and “Experts by Experience” reports. See the text of Adrian’s presentation here
1. Responding to Government consultations. This has included:
• Child Poverty Strategy 2014-17
• European Social Fund Operational Programme for England 2014-2010
• Gypsy and Traveller Accommodation Needs Assessments and proposed change to the planning definition of “travellers”
Documents here and here.
Download the document below by clicking on them
• Tackling the hidden economy: Sanctions
• 3rd Universal Periodic Review of the UK 2017
• Tackling inequalities faced by Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities – Parliamentary Inquiry
We will be putting our responses to all consultations as they arise on this site.
2. Engagement with (and input into) the national policy agenda via:
• Gypsy and Traveller Liaison Group in the Department for Communities and Local Government - this group enables the community to raise issues of concern and to set the agenda, rather than being solely reactive.
• All Party Parliamentary Group
• Department for Business Innovation and Skills re. 'Skills for the most socially disadvantaged' and “engagement and progression of very disadvantaged adults in vocational learning”.
• The Community Law Partnership-led Gypsy and Traveller Consultations and Inquiries Group
• National Scrutiny Panel: Hate Crime Affecting Gypsy, Traveller And Roma Communities
3. Development work: we are still working with a small number of groups to help them to obtain the funding that will enable them to inform policy making.
Presentation at the European Parliament 2nd December 2014
NFGLG Policy Officer gave a presentation at the European Parliament based on the Civil Monitoring and “Experts by Experience” reports. See the text of Adrian’s presentation here
