GYPSY Site Policy: a failure of both carrot and stick

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For 18 years it has been national policy to provide adequate sites for gypsies and other travellers; local authorities are under a specific duty to make sites available, and yet there are still at least 3,500 families without a legal stopping place. This article discusses the causes of the failure of implementation, and the nature of the ‘designation’ policy as a means of achieving more sites. It is suggested that in undertaking a ‘modest review’ of the present position the Minister should make some specific modifications to current policy and also re-examine the underlying philosophies implicit in the 1968 Caravan Sites Act and in new proposals for the education of the children of travelling families.

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