Nursery World - All about the role of ... EMTAS consultant

What does it take to work as an ethnic minority and traveller achievement service consultant (EMTASC)?

The collective group of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller (GRT) is broad and includes Gypsies, Scottish Travellers or Gypsies, Welsh Gypsies or Travellers, Roma, Travellers of Irish heritage, show people, fairground people, circus families, New Travellers and barge or canal boat families. Each group has its own distinctive history and customs and shares aspects of a similar lifestyle. A key feature of GRT culture has been a nomadic way of life, although fewer than half of the estimated 250,000300,000 GRT groups living in Britain today are nomadic.

Studies have shown that GRT children have significantly lower educational achievement rates than other groups of children. They are more likely to be identified as having special educational needs, four times more likely than any other group to be excluded from school as a result of their behaviour and are unlikely to continue in education beyond 14.

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