About Education Information & Support at the Traveller Movement

Core Values

The Traveller Movement’s Education, Information & Support website is designed to assist Romani (Gypsy), Roma, and Irish Traveller parents and young people in accessing all areas of education in a way that is accessible, approachable, and specific to their communities. We aim to help make families aware of their legal rights and entitlements, to help build individual and community capacity, confidence, and digital inclusion. 

 

We want Romani (Gypsy), Roma, and Irish Traveller parents to feel empowered to challenge the injustices they may face within educational settings and to have a say in how educational providers operate. Education opens the door to future opportunities, and it is only right that Romani (Gypsy), Roma, and Irish Traveller families receive the same decent level of education as everyone else, to secure their future opportunities and benefit the wider aspects of life as a whole. 

 

We are combining this website with our already existing Education Advice and Advocacy Support Unit. Our goal for Romani (Gypsy), Roma, and Irish Traveller families is to provide a safe place to seek information and help, with a backup support service for those who need extra assistance or have a situation so complex that the information and support offered on this website will not be sufficient. We hope this approach will enable us to maximise our outreach and provide a much-needed guide for communities who are well known to be denied a decent education due to the exceptional level of bullying that they face. 

 

Our Central Messages

• • We believe that discrimination is wrong
  • We are opposed to racism in all its forms
  • We value and promote diversity
  • We believe in equality of access to services and in equality under the law
  • We value and promote self-determination, believing that individuals have the right to make choices about issues affecting them
  • We endorse the Declaration of Human Rights
  • We value the identities and cultures of Romani (Gypsy), Roma, and Irish Traveller communities.
  • We work in partnership with the Romani (Gypsy), Roma, and Irish Traveller communities. 

Our Vision

Our vision is of a world in which members of the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Communities reach their full potential; where they are accepted, proud of who they are and have an equal voice.

Our Mission

Our Mission is to develop a platform and voice for community members, working in solidarity with Romani (Gypsy), Roma and Irish Traveller communities, within the UK and across Europe, to achieve equality through self-determination and proactive participation in influencing and shaping policy.

Our Ambition

Our ambition is to extend our EU influence and remain the most effective UK resource, information and lobbying charity for groups, organisations and individuals working for and with the Romani (Gypsy), Roma, and Irish Traveller communities in Britain, so that collectively we can bring about significant, positive change for people living in those communities.