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Education challenges facing children and young people from Gypsy, Roma and Traveller backgrounds

Inquiry

The inquiry will focus on the educational experiences of children and young people from a Gypsy, Roma and Traveller background.

It will examine the educational challenges faced by these groups and will also evaluate the effectiveness of the Government’s recent £1 million education programme for Gypsy, Roma and Traveller children.

 

Read the call for evidence for more detail about the inquiry

 

Read the Committee’s letter to the Department setting out its findings and recommendations following this inquiry

 

Read the Department’s response to the Committee’s findings and recommendations

This inquiry is no longer accepting evidence

The deadline for submissions was 11:59pm on 25 January 2022.

Upcoming events

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Past events

Tuesday 15 March 2022
10:00am Public
Education challenges facing children and young people from Gypsy, Roma and Traveller backgrounds - Oral evidence 15 March 2022
10:00am
  • Mr Robin Walker (Minister of State for School Standards at Department for Education)
Room 15, Palace of Westminster
Tuesday 22 February 2022
10:00am Public
Education challenges facing children and young people from Gypsy, Roma and Traveller backgrounds - Oral evidence 22 February 2022
10:00am
  • Ms Emma Nuttall (Advice and Policy Manager at Friends, Families and Travellers)
  • Pauline Anderson OBE (Chair of Trustees at The Traveller Movement)
  • The Baroness Whitaker (Co-chair at APPG for Gypsies, Travellers and Roma)
  • Lisa Smith (Committee Chair at Advisory Council for the Education of Romany and other Travellers (ACERT))
10:45am
  • Jo Luhman (Headteacher at Kings International College)
  • Paula Strachan (Headteacher at St Teresa’s Catholic Primary School)
  • Marius Ciuca (Teaching Assistant and Translator to Roma and Romanian children at St Helen's Primary School)
  • Vasile Sandu (Teaching Assistant at St Matthew's Church of England Primary School)
Room 15, Palace of Westminster

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