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The purpose of this chapter is to provide a critical insight into Travellers’ experiences of school, to highlight inequality and press for improvements. The difficulties Gypsies and Travellers experience within the mainstream education system are historic and well-documented in research and reports. As early as 1967, the Plowden Report described Travellers’ underachievement as a cause for concern, as their ‘educational needs are extreme and largely unmet’ (DES, 1967, p. 595). At this time, problems centred mainly on access to school: attendance was irregular, and many Travellers received no schooling at all (Reiss, 1975).
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D’Arcy, K. (2014). Educational Inclusion: Meeting the Needs of All Traveller Pupils. In: Race, R., Lander, V. (eds) Advancing Race and Ethnicity in Education. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137274762_4
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