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What Coalition commitments?

The ministerial working group on Gypsies and Travellers has not met since April 2012 and is not scheduled to meet in the future, the government has been forced to admit.

05/11/2014 – The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) was ordered to publish information about the group, which is chaired by secretary of state for communities Eric Pickles, by the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) last month.

This followed allegations the department was ‘stonewalling’ about the progress of the group, which was set up to tackle inequalities faced by Gypsies and Travellers.

Charity Friends, Family and Travellers (FFT) submitted a request to DCLG under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) asking how many times the group has met since April 2012 and how often it is scheduled to meet in the next six months.

The ministerial working group published a report in 2012 outlining 28 commitments to improve services for Gypsies and Travellers. FFT made the FOIA request because it was not convinced the group was meeting or doing any work to achieve these goals.

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Romany Theatre Company 2015 programme

Gypsy VC recognised

There was a Black History Month event in Sanctuary Buildings this month which will be opened by the Secretary of State and the Permanent Secretary and at which homage will be paid to Gypsy John (Jack) Cunningham who won the VC in WW1.

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I thought that the article below might be of interest in Black History Month. It is about Rab Howell.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-27490919

I came across it after reading about the unveiling yesterday of a statue of Arthur Wharton, the world’s first Black professional footballer at the National Football Museum.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/29532529

Margaret

Annual General Meeting 2014

Saturday, September 20th 2014 12:30 to 1:00pm

Friends Meeting House, 173 Euston Road, London NW1 2BJ

Details are posted on the ACERT website.

Agenda

• Welcome and Apologies

• Chair’s Annual Report of the work done by ACERT

• Treasurer’s report

• Adoption of audited Accounts

• Election of Honorary Officers 2014-5

Chair
2 Vice Chairs
Treasurer
Committee

• ·Appointment of Auditor(s)

• ·Date of next AGM

• ·AOB

Only paid up members have voting rights.

Those wishing to stand for election must have been a member of ACERT for at least 3 months.

Nominations for Honorary Officers or members of the Committee may be made by members of ACERT in writing. The nomination and the consent of each nominee must be received prior to the meeting.

Nominations may also be taken from the floor of the meeting. Those nominated must give consent.

The total number of Committee Members including Officers is not more than 15.