Northern Irish plan to improve Traveller children’s school outcomes ‘isn’t working’

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Northern Irish plan to improve Traveller children’s school outcomes ‘isn’t working’
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Strategy that came into effect more than a decade ago is failing, says joint chairman of group behind it

Amy Ward of the Irish Traveller Movement: 'My sister was beaten up. Less so because she was a Taig than because she was a Traveller'Nearly three-quarters of Irish Traveller children are still leaving school in Northern Ireland with fewer than five GCSE pass grades – a decade after a Stormont strategy to improve education levels began.

There’s too much death: Prospect of an ‘official’ British history of the Troubles is hurtful to families like mine The strategy followed on from a Department of Education report in 2011 that found there had been a “collective failure” over many decades to address educational underachievement among Travellers.

Nearly half of Traveller children have special needs, compared with 19 per cent of children in the wider population. Such children are treated differently, Ms McGeough said.

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