DGLG - Moving Forward working locally and nationally
Two very important decisions:
01.11.2022 Lisa Smith -v- The Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Others [2021] EWHC 1650
Derbyshire Gypsy Liaison Group has for many years challenged the very unsatisfactory historical aspects of G[g]ypsy status ( our brackets)
“personally, I cannot see how any planning authority or planning inspector can conclude that an elderly or disabled Gypsy or Traveller who no longer travels because of their age or disability cannot rely on the positive advice in PPTS 2015.The case also sounds the death knell for local authorities' GTAA's which are based on the discriminatory definition. Surely all those which exclude elderly and disabled Gypsies and Travellers must be revised asap. Marc Willers QC
Please read judgment here
01.11.2022 Lisa Smith -v- The Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Others [2021] EWHC 1650
Derbyshire Gypsy Liaison Group has for many years challenged the very unsatisfactory historical aspects of G[g]ypsy status ( our brackets)
“personally, I cannot see how any planning authority or planning inspector can conclude that an elderly or disabled Gypsy or Traveller who no longer travels because of their age or disability cannot rely on the positive advice in PPTS 2015.The case also sounds the death knell for local authorities' GTAA's which are based on the discriminatory definition. Surely all those which exclude elderly and disabled Gypsies and Travellers must be revised asap. Marc Willers QC
Please read judgment 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
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
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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Report just out on dementia and carers in the Gypsy and Traveller community - Download it here
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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.
DGLG activities include:
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 InformationMOVING FOR CHANGE - View the Billy Welch video HERE
MOVING FOR CHANGE is generously supported by: 
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 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
Upcoming Events Service Updates
New Sitting Service Read about DGLG activities, reports on progress, news and events. 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... |
