Traveller integration in schools ‘urgent’

TRAVELLER children must be fully integrated in secondary schools as a matter of urgency, the head of an EU anti-racism body has claimed.

Anastasia Crickley, chair of the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC), said the outcomes for these children, particularly at senior cycle, must be improved.

She was speaking following the publication of the first overview of Traveller and Roma education in the EU, which underlines the seriousness of discrimination.