Traveller communities
'We're punished for being different': Black girls excluded from school at double rate of white pupils
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'We're punished for being different': Black girls excluded from school at double rate of white pupils
Girls from Gypsy, Roma and Irish Traveller backgrounds are excluded at even higher rates – three times the rate as white girls
Gypsy and Traveller families 'paying £600 a month for gas' after being left out in the cold from government support
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