‘Gypsy Roma Traveller Police Association’, in partnership with the ‘Romani Cultural and Arts Company’ present the following event in Cardiff: Reaching the Gypsy, Roma, Traveller Communities – the Police and Justice Services

The GRT PA and RCAC are pleased to be jointly hosting a training workshop aimed at delivering the knowledge, skills and ‘best practice’ needed to improve services, build better understanding and strengthen community – police and justice service relationships. The training workshop is part of a programme of training being designed by the GRT PA and delivered in partnership with Gypsy, Roma, Traveller voluntary sector organisations and in consultation with professionals working as police officers and staff, prison officers, probation staff, magistrates and judges and others in the justice system. The workshop will be an opportunity to engage with the process of training in the field, working with GRT communities and of impacting upon the final training package that will be delivered from 2016 onwards, to police and justice services across the UK, by the GRT PA.

The structure of the day will be one that encourages discussion in small and larger groups, participation in drafting guidelines that will be tailored to specific branches of these services. The trainers will be experts in their fields and both from Romani/Traveller and other communities. The event will also be supported by RCAC Community Champions, members of the GRT communities that have been working with the Company to promote inter-communal solidarity and social cohesion in Wales, in preschools, schools, government consultations and community initiatives.

Topics and themes covered will be: 

 • Language

 • History

 • Demographics

 • Identities/groups

 • Current trends

 • Legal framework (rights, conventions, protections for minorities) and legal responsibilities

 • Perceptions or GRT communities

 • Stereotypes and prejudices – anti–Gypsyism, hate speech and violence towards GRT communities

 • Code of ethics and practice

 • Sanctions/consequences for breaching legal rights/protections

 and cover subjects such as Traveller children’s rights, parents’ rights and responsibilities in the Roma communities, working with other services (social services, health, education and housing), Gypsies, Roma, Travellers and the media.

Trainers:

Dr Adrian Marsh, PhD. 

Workshop leaders:

PC Jim Davies, Chairperson Gypsy, Roma, Traveller Police Association

PC Petr Torak, 

Mr Isaac Blake, Director, Romani Cultural and Arts Company

Places are limited to 50, so please register your interest early to ensure that you will be able to attend.