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Understanding the Different Traveller Communities - See inside for details

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IDENTITY & CULTURE

Prince Harry of Wales marries Meghan Markle

Safeguardingagainstradicalisationand extremism

INSIDE

Health & Well-being

events 2018

May

1 World Asthma Day8 World Ovarian Cancer Day10 World Lupus Day12 National M.E. Awareness Day14 – 20 Mental Health Awareness Week18 World Aids Vaccine Day28 – 3 Sun Awareness Week30 World MS Day31 World No Tobacco Day

June 1 Self Injury / Harm Awareness Day8 World Kidney Day12 – 18 World Glaucoma Week12 – 18 Nutrition and Hydration12 – 18 International Salt Awareness Week14 No Smoking Day20 World Oral Health Day21 World Down Syndrome Day22 World Water Day24 World Tuberculosis Day30 World Bipolar Day

July3 - 9 Sarcoma Awareness Week28 World Hepatitis Day30 Gastroschisis Awareness Day

ESDGC and Equality & Diversity events 2018

May

3 World Press Freedom Day/ National Day of Prayer12 World Fair Trade Day14 – 20 Deaf Awareness week16 Ramadan begins17 International Day Against Homophobia21 World Day for Cultural Diversity Dialogue and Development28 World Hunger Day

June

4 Ramadan finishes5 World Environment Day8 World Oceans Day12 World Day against Child Labour11-17 Men’s Health Week17 World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought20 World Refugee Day21 World Humanist Day

July

2 World UFO Day4 Independence Day11 World Population Day15 Disability Awareness Day17 World Day for International Justice30 World Day against Trafficking in Persons

Safeguarding

Our Safeguarding Team are available to offer their advice and guidance to ensure that anyone who is at risk is given the correct support.

Safeguarding Officer Anthea Rowley 02920 819 505 / 07876 824 203

Deputy Safeguarding Officer Stacy Preston 02920 819 546

Designated Senior Person for Safeguarding across the t2 group Dave Marr 02920 819 530

What’s

On? around the UK?

May

12 Caerphilly Food Festival14 Dylan Day19 Prince Harry and Megan Markle’s wedding19 FA Cup Final, London20 Snowdonia Half Marathon22 – 26 RHS Chelsea Flower Show

28 – 2 Urdd National Eisteddfod, Bridgend

June

9 Trooping the Colour, London17 Father’s Day24 Cardiff Triathlon30 – 1 Tafwyl, Cardiff30 – 1 Wales Air show

July

2-15 Tennis - Wimbledon8 Formula 1 - British Grand Prix, Silverstone8 UCI Velothon Wales13 – 15 Tenby Long Course Weekend21 British Speedway Grand Prix21 - 5 Hockey - Women’s World Cup, London

t2 is committed to providing a secure environment for its learners, where they feel safe and are kept safe. One of the newer areas that you will have heard about on the news recently is radicalisation and extremism.

Since 2010, when the Government published the Prevent Strategy, there has been an awareness of the specific need to Safeguard children, young people and families from violent extremism. There have been several occasions both locally and nationally in which extremist groups have attempted to radicalise vulnerable children and young people to hold extreme views including views. These views can include political, religious, sexist or racist violence, or to steer them into a rigid and narrow ideology that is intolerant of diversity and leaves them vulnerable to future radicalisation.

The current threat from terrorism in the United Kingdom may include the exploitation of vulnerable people, to involve them in terrorism or in an activity in support of terrorism. The normalisation of extreme views may also make children and young people vulnerable to future manipulation and exploitation. t2 is clear that this exploitation and radicalisation should be viewed as a Safeguarding concern.

‘Vocal or active opposition to fundamental British values, including democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of different faiths and beliefs; and/or calls for the death of members of our armed forces, whether in this country or overseas’.

t2 seeks to protect children and young people against the messages of all violent extremism.

Some signs of extremist behaviour could be:

• Disclosures of extremist actions

• Graffiti symbols, writing or artwork promoting extremist messages or images

• Accessing extremist material online, potentially through social networking sites

• Changes in behaviour, friendship or actions and request for assistance

• Voicing opinion drawn from extremist ideologies and a narratives

• Use of extremist or ‘hate’ terms to exclude others or incite violence

• Intolerance of difference, whether secular or religious, or views based on, but not exclusive to gender, disability, homophobia, race, colour or culture

• An attempt to impose extremist views or practices on others

• Anti-Western or Anti British views

This list is by no means exhaustive, if you have any safeguarding concerns you should contact our Safeguarding Officer, Anthea Rowley immediately on 02920 819 505 / 07876 824 203. If Anthea Rowley is not available please contact Stacy Preston our Deputy Safeguarding Officer on 02920 819 546.

What is GDPR?The General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR is Europe’s new framework for data protection laws – it replaces the previous 1995 data protection directive, which current UK law is based upon. The new regulation will commence on 25th May 2018.

The goal of this new legislation is to help align existing data protection protocols all while increasing the levels of protection for individuals. All of the reforms going into effect are designed to help customers gain a greater level of control over their data, while offering more transparency throughout the data collection and use process. These new laws will help to bring existing legislation up to par with the connected digital age we live in. Since data collection is such a normal and integral aspect of our lives both on a personal and business level it helps to set the standard for data-related laws moving forward.

Prince Harry of Wales

MegHan MarklePrince Harry popped the question to the Suits actress last year but how will the actress be addressed now after their wedding on May 19 at St George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle?

Actress Meghan will now be known as Her Royal Highness Princess Henry of Wales, using her husband’s name — while any children born to the couple will be a lord or lady, not a prince or princess. Titles within the royal family were limited by Harry’s great-great-grandfather King George V, who issued a Letters Patent in 1917.

It read: “...the grandchildren of the sons of any such Sovereign in the direct male line (save only the eldest living son of the eldest son of the Prince of Wales) shall have and enjoy in all occasions the style and title enjoyed by the children of Dukes of these Our Realms.”

This means Harry and Meghan’s children, should they have any while Elizabeth II is on the throne, will not be HRHs or princes or princesses, but will be known instead as Lord or Lady (forename) Mountbatten-Windsor.

However, the Queen could issue a new Letters Patent to change this - just as she did for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s children.

George was always entitled to be HRH Prince George of Cambridge as the eldest son of the eldest son of the Prince of Wales. But HRH Princess Charlotte of Cambridge would have been Lady Charlotte Mounbatten-Windsor.

In December 2012, when Kate was around three months pregnant, the Queen issued a Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the Realm declaring “all the children of the eldest son of the Prince of Wales should have and enjoy the style, title and attribute of royal highness with the titular dignity of Prince or Princess prefixed to their Christian names or with such other titles of honour”.

A Letters Patent was granted in 1948 just before the Prince of Wales’s birth because the 1917 decree excluded Princess Elizabeth’s children from taking a royal style and title.

The Princess Royal’s children, Peter and Zara Phillips, who do not hold titles, were Master and Miss Phillips when they were born. They were not entitled to be HRHs under the 1917 decree as they were born down the female line. The Earl and Countess of Wessex’s children, Lady Louise Mountbatten-Windsor and Viscount Severn, are actually entitled to be a princess and prince as children of the son of the Sovereign.

Meghan’s full name is Rachel Meghan Markle, but as she was referred to as Meghan in Buckingham Palace’s announcement it is likely she will use this name officially.

However, the 36-year-old actress won’t be known as Princess Meghan. The pair will instead be known as the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. This is because due to rules governing the British crown, only those born into the royal family can use the title Prince or Princess, followed by their first name.

Harry’s mum Diana was given the title Princess of Wales — a courtesy title held by the wife of the Prince of Wales — but she was never formally referred to as Princess Diana for the same reason.

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Identity is a way of ‘slotting’ people into the society in which they live and giving them a sense of belonging.

There are over 7 billion people on Earth and no two of them are alike. Even identical twins have separate and distinct identities.

Identity is about how individuals or groups see and define themselves, and it is how they are defined by other people. The concept of identity is important as it allows us to form social connections to others. It is only through building our own identities and learning about the identities of others that we come to know what makes us similar to other people and what makes us different.

How you see yourself will influence the friends you have, the social groups you mix with and who you will marry and settle down with. If people didn’t have identities, they wouldn’t have the means to relate to their neighbours, communities and people they came across on a daily basis. Identity is a way of ‘slotting’ people into the society in which they live and giving them a sense of belonging.

Culture plays a huge part in an individual’s identity. Cultural identity is the feeling of belonging to a group. It’s a part of a person’s self-conception and self-perception and is related to nationality, ethnicity, religion, social class, language, gender, generation and locality. We are not born with a culture, we are born into culture and it’s something we learn.

Culture can also be used to describe our way of life and the values, beliefs, and attitudes that we use in everyday life. This could include art, literature, music, sport, religion, sexuality, aesthetics, race, history and even food. When asked to define cultural identity, many people respond to the question by comparing it to a lifestyle or value. Culture and identity go hand in hand when describing a person’s background, religious persuasion and possible sexual orientation. Culture is the underlying foundation of traditions and beliefs that help a person relate to the world around them.

Elements of Culture:

• Symbols • Language • Values • Beliefs • Rules and Expectations

Every culture has its own unique patterns of behaviours, even in countries which share the same language, their habits and customs may be quite different. This is where we get the expression ‘culture shock’ from. Some people feel disoriented when they become immersed in a new culture.

Identity and culture go hand in hand and we can’t talk about one without drawing links with the other. Identity is extremely important for people’s self-perception and an individual’s culture heavily influences their identity.

Last year the Traveller Movement published a report entitled “The last acceptable form of racism?” (September, 2017) in which it stated that according to research, 91% of Gypsy, Roma or Traveller people had experienced some form of discrimination directly related to their ethnicity.

The report goes on to say that many people from Gypsy, Roma or Traveller communities (GRT) are reluctant to disclose their ethnicity on forms in case it results in them being refused services such as healthcare or education.

While it has become socially unacceptable to use derogatory, racist terms about (or to) members of other ethnic groups, it is commonplace to hear people using offensive slang about the GRT communities and for it to go unchecked.

The media is full of horror stories about vigilante groups burning down GRT homes and school children being subjected to horrifying verbal and physical abuse which, were it to happen to other communities would be considered hate crime.

So, who are the GRT community? It is important to realise that not all travellers share the same ethnicity. There are distinct ethnic groups with separate traditions, customs and languages.

The word ‘Gypsy’ comes from ‘Egyptian’ as it was mistakenly believed in the 16th century that the group had travelled from Egypt across Europe and into Britain. It is now thought that nomadic families left north west India and reached Europe in the 13th century, arriving in Britain in the 16th century. It is thought that these families are now the Roma and Sinti peoples. Many speak the language of the country in which they live as well as Romani or a dialect of Romani. The Roma people have endured persecution throughout their history and during WWII, Hitler and the Third Reich tried to eliminate anyone with Roma blood. Roma were sent to concentration camps and subjected to forced labour; in some places, experiments were carried out on Roma and Roma women were forcibly sterilised.

Roma are still harassed and discriminated against across Europe; the French government has a particularly aggressive policy towards illegal settlements and in 2013 alone, deported almost 11,000 Roma people back to Romania or Bulgaria.

Travellers is a term widely used to refer to Irish and Scottish Travellers. Due to various policies made by the Republic of Ireland’s government in the 1960s, many Travellers migrated from the Republic of Ireland to the UK. Irish Travellers are a distinct ethnic group separate from settled Irish people although because they have traditionally not kept written records, academics cannot agree on where the Irish Travellers originated.

Irish Travellers speak English as well as Cant or Gammon which are dialects of Shelta.

Irish Travellers have been recognised in the UK as a distinct ethnic group since the 2011 census. Many Irish Travellers report bullying at school and say that pubs, restaurants and shops will routinely refuse them service because of their ethnicity.The GRT community also includes ‘showmen’ (fairground families), circus families and bargees (or boat people).

These days many Roma and Travellers live in bricks and mortar houses (sometimes out of choice, sometimes not) but they do not lose their ethnicity because they are no longer nomadic. There is a common misconception that GRT communities do not go to school, do not work, live on benefits, do not pay taxes and are criminals.

While this may be true of some members of GRT communities, as it is true of all communities, most Roma or Travellers are law-abiding citizens who live on authorised sites and pay for utilities and pay community tax just like everyone else.

What is true is that GRT communities often struggle to access the most basic services such as healthcare and education often, in part, due to their nomadic lifestyles. Children’s education can be sporadic due to enrolling in several different schools over the course of their education and they often leave schools due to bullying. Low levels of literacy make it difficult to access other public services particularly with the introduction of universal credit which means having a computer is necessary.

Did you know that GRT communities have produced a great many stars including Sir Michael Caine, Charlie Chaplin, Bob Hoskins, Ronnie Wood, David Essex, Yul Brynner, Eric Cantona, Cher Lloyd and Tyson Fury?

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