8th Annual Conference
Delivering Services for Gypsies and Travellers 

Tuesday 16 March 2010, Kingsway Hall Hotel, London WC2

“Celebrating culture, supporting independence and moving beyond past injustice”

Purpose of the conference

This one day conference will:

• Start a broad debate around provision of public sites:
  How many do we need, who should deliver them, and what
  should they be like?
• Look at examples of innovation in public sites, and the
  impact this can have on planning and delivery of a variety
  of accommodation
• Receive guidance on bidding for site grants directly from the
  Homes and Communities Agency (HCA)
• Further the debate about management of socially-rented
  sites: Who should manage them, and how should they be
  managed?
• Discuss what security of tenure and the Mobile Homes Act
  1983 applying to council-run sites will mean in practice, and
  what the gains for everyone can be
• Address the issue of employment discrimination, and learn
  what you can do to improve access to jobs for Gypsies and
  Travellers
• Understand the need to build trusting relationships in health
  and social care, and learn what healthcare professionals
  are doing to engage and empower Gypsies and Travellers
  on health issues
• Learn about the challenges facing young Gypsies and
  Travellers, and what educators and youth services can do to
  promote positive activities for young people