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DGLG - Moving Forward working locally and nationally 


DGLG is in close contact with a number of statutory and voluntary bodies:
 
Derbyshire County Council - www.derbyshire.gov.uk
 
Derby Derbyshire East Staffordshire and Peak District National Park GTAA   Please down load the report here 

Derbyshire County Council and DGLG work together on the Traveller Needs working Group. In 2004 we produced the culture booklet A Better Road. This project had been identified as something to aim for across Europe. To support the work the Finnish Cale sent the guidebook that they had recently produced as a model - Please see Health publications page. "An Improved Path to a Better Road" updated a Better Road in 2009.

DGLG meets with the Derbyshire Gypsy and Traveller Needs Working Group four times a year. The group has worked on a Derbyshire wide Gypsy and Inter Agency Guidance. This is a working document and subject to review and change. Please see latest update July 2019 Download here

Derbyshire wide Gypsy and Traveller Accommodation Assessment (Including East Staffordshire.)
Derbyshire undertook its first GTAA which was published in 2008. There is a now a new assessment published 2015
Please down load the GTAA Here 


​The Office for National Statistics have today  ( 7TH December) published some groundbreaking research into the lived experiences of Gypsies and Travellers in partnership with DGLG. The press release is below. 
 
The report is here: 
 
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/culturalidentity/ethnicity/articles/gypsiesandtravellerslivedexperiencesoverviewenglandandwales/2022

 
The animated summary is here: 
 
https://vimeo.com/778793987/6dc0e70d79

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Legal and policy News here

​Wide Injunctions to be challenged in Supreme Court
London Gypsies and Travellers; Friends, Families and Travellers; and Derbyshire Gypsy Liaison Group -v- Wolverhampton City Council and Others UKSC 2022/0046  ( Community law Partnership)
 
26.10. 2022. We have along with (LGT) London Gypsies and Travellers  (LGT) and Friends Families and Travellers  have been granted permission by the Supreme Court to continue the challenge against the use of anti-Traveller ‘wide injunctions’.
Please see press release here https://www.gypsy-traveller.org/news/wide-injunctions-to-be-challenged-in-supreme-court/
 
Please see relevant documents here and here and here

Long Road to Recovery
Romany Gypsies and Irish Travellers have been badly affected by the COVID 19 pandemic. But as the pandemic fades from the headlines, many are still suffering with Long COVID. In this short film, Romany Journalist Jake Bowers meets three Gypsy and Traveller men for whom the pandemic is far from over.
Produced for the Derbyshire Gypsy Liaison Group and in conjunction with  National Voices. A Gypsy Media Company Production.

If you are a Gypsy or Traveller and you think you have, or may have, Long COVID, then please call the Derbyshire Gypsy Liaison Group on 07584 094 211 or 07799 443 830

READ MORE https://www.travellerstimes.org.uk/features/long-road-recovery-long-covid-and-gypsies-and-travellers
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​Derbyshire Gypsy Liaison Group provides valuable assistance and information to the Gypsy community in Derbyshire. DGLG also has a close relationship with local authorities and services DGLG work is not exclusively in Derbyshire.
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DGLG activities include:
  • Seeking and securing authorised stopping places and planning permission
  • Advising local authorities on site matters
  • Health care guidance
  • Members of the Derbyshire BME Links Forum Links CVS 
  • Member of Moving for Change https www.movingforchange.org
  • Supporting children in school and education
  • Welfare aid and housing guidance
  • Exhibitions, research, cultural history
  • Training for statutory bodies including the Police, Healthcare and Social Services
  • Holding the policy spoke of Moving for Change, working on national policy
  • Working with the Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) working towards a national GRT (Gypsy Roma Traveller) strategy to improve the lack of sites
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New Legislation and Campaigns
High Court Ruling - Read here​
   
Please watch this video    
What could new Government laws mean for Gypsies and Travellers? - YouTube
 
There is a huge shortage of Traveller sites in the UK.

Despite this, the Government want to:
📌Put people on roadside camps in jail
📌Remove families' homes
📌Fine families £2500

Please use @GypsyTravellers tool to ask your MP to stop the #PoliceBill:
https://action.gypsy-traveller.org/page/78097/action/1

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Latest Information

​MOVING FOR CHANGE - View the Billy Welch video HERE
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MOVING FOR CHANGE is generously supported by:
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Coronavirus Update
‘’Partners in Surrey Heartlands Integrated Care System have been tackling health inequalities by encouraging members of the Gypsy, Roma, Traveller and Showmen communities to ‘Give Covid the Jab’. In a new NHS video, produced in partnership with First Community Health and Care - an employee-owned social enterprise, providing community healthcare services to people living in east Surrey and parts of West Sussex - they aim to educate, inform and answer common questions about the Covid-19 vaccine to boost vaccine confidence within Traveller communities’’.
 
Please see this great video here with Jake Bowers
 
Give Covid the Jab.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4-S7xdnsec
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We will update guidance as we get it please see information on funerals here

Please see letter sent to all Local authorities from HMCLG after network lobbying Here - Guidance  Covid 19

Life On and Off the Hard Shoulder: Please see our research report, on our services page here

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Awards Received 
-Queens Jubilee Award for Voluntary Groups
-PQASSO Accredited level 2 DGLG was awarded the Home Office Queen's Award for Innovation in Police Training...

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