Including the Excluded - Social Work with Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller Communities

Social Work in the UK has largely neglected the needs of Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller communities despite rising numbers of children coming into state care from these communities. Additionally research has repeatedly shown that health and social care services do not reach out to Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller communities.
Ways of including Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller communities in diversity training, practice and policy y were outlined and a range of resources illuminated with a view to reducing levels of oppression, to which social workers currently contribute.