Travellers – the strategy and action plan for East Sussex
Our Traveller Strategy was adopted in 2006 and recognises Gypsies' and Travellers' rights to:
- a nomadic lifestyle
- equal access to services such as education, health and accommodation
- protection from discrimination and harassment.
Contents
The document is split into sections as follows:
- Communication and consultation
- National and local context – local site provision
- Legislative and policy framework
- Unauthorised encampments
- Unauthorised Gypsy/ Traveller developments on their own land
- Ethnic monitoring
- Health
- Education
- The Media
- Monitoring, evaluation and review
- Appendix 1 – Legislative Framework, with detailed East Sussex implications
- Appendix 2 – Policy framework
- Appendix 3 – East Sussex Traveller Strategy Action Plan, 2006–2009
- Appendix 4 – Accommodation Needs Assessment
- Appendix 5 – Sussex Police protocols on eviction of unauthorised encampments
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- East Sussex Traveller Strategy (282k)
- Includes statistical data, the Action Plan for 2006–09, details of the legal framework and procedures for dealing with unauthorised encampments. (41 pages)
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- Gypsy & Traveller Study, Final Report 2005 (1033k)
- Listed as Appendix 4 – the Accomodation Needs Assessment in the above Strategy document. (88 pages)
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