Submission to Baroness Lawrence’s review into the impact of Coronavirus on Black Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities

01 Sep 2021

Gypsies, Roma and Irish Travellers experience the worst social and economic outcomes of all ethnic minority groups in the UK. Research published by the Equality and Human Rights Commission in 2009 presented evidence of Gypsies’ and Travellers’ experience of inequality in a wide range of areas and highlighted ‘the extent to which many of their experiences remain invisible and ignored within wider agendas’ (Cemlyn et al., 2009).