Declan O'Driscoll

Gypsy, Roma & Traveller Human Rights Consultant | Be kind 🇬🇧🇮🇪🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

[Declan O'Driscoll @Dec_ODriscoll]

Great to speak at @GypsyTravellerM parliamentary launch of Disrupting the School to Prison Pipeline event this evening. Thank you to all who came along and supported, and thank you to Sarah my co-author of this valuable report https://t.co/G7NXFpyPu1 #education #CriminalJustice

[London Gypsies&Travellers @LondonGypsyTrav]

@GypsyTravellers @GypsyTravellerM @GateHerts @Drive2Survive3 @KushtiBokDorset @Romanywriterdee @MJGTraveller @Moving4ChangeUK @chelsmacdonn @ReportRacismGRT @TravellerLGBT @bowers_jake

[Declan O'Driscoll @Dec_ODriscoll]

@TeamYouTube can you DM me. You have suspended my account for no reason.

[RTÉ News @rtenews]

Thomas McCann will become the first male Traveller in Ireland to graduate with a PhD, when he is conferred at a ceremony at Maynooth University this afternoon

https://t.co/RiK7Bu2D2c

[Friends, Families & Travellers @GypsyTravellers]

Gypsies and Travellers aren’t currently included in the NHS Dictionary, and so the health inequalities Gypsy, Roma and Traveller people face aren’t addressed properly.

To help create a fairer healthcare system, we wrote to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care.

[Runnymede Trust @RunnymedeTrust]

The High Court recently found parts of the PCSC Act to unlawfully discriminate against Gypsy & Traveller people

This #GypsyRomaandTravellerHistoryMonth, we must confront the racism these communities still face, particularly the politicised criminalisation of nomadic ways of life

[Leeds Gypsy and Traveller Exchange @LeedsGATE]

📣TOMORROW: History Month Schools Pack Launch event!

Teachers, educators... join us for bite-sized online training opportunity to network, ask questions and a tour of our schools resource pack (it's after school!😅)
Register for free: https://t.co/vgb7SNRs3F

[Just Like Us @JustLikeUsUK]

👆Just a reminder: LGBT+ inclusion in schools saves lives🌈

Our new billboards to mark #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek are illuminated around the UK, highlighting the importance of creating safe and supportive environments for LGBT+ young people🧡

[Report Racism GRT @ReportRacismGRT]

Would you like to learn more about planning?
See below for more info! @GateHerts

[Marc Willers KC @mwillersqc]

I’m delighted for my brave Romani client who put her head above the parapet and challenged the draconian new enforcement powers inserted into the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 by the Police Crime Sentencing and Courts Act 2022.

[Lewis Goodall @lewis_goodall]

NEW: Latest @TheNewsAgents Investigates - Britain’s hidden homeless children

Nearly 140,000 kids in Britain are now homeless, in so-called “temporary accommodation”. We went to a school where half of the kids don’t have a home to call their own.
https://t.co/p6RCi62MYv

[Friends, Families & Travellers @GypsyTravellers]

The level of comfort shown when using hate-filled language against entire communities should worry everyone.

We call out politicians time and time again, and little seems to change.

How can this be accepted, on #InternationalRomaniDay, of all days? (1/3)

[The Traveller Movement @GypsyTravellerM]

Here we go again on Roma International Day! Let's for a moment replace our ethnic group with another in your statement @LeeAndersonMP_ shocking ! Disgraceful....geering up and political rhetoric in an election year. We will not be used as political footballs

[Declan O'Driscoll @Dec_ODriscoll]

Fab work from the TM team! ❤️

[The Traveller Movement @GypsyTravellerM]

The wonderful panel 🌟 thank you to everyone who came along! As always, lots done and lots more to do.
Check out the toolkit here https://t.co/0EjQaGA7lg
@citybridgetrust

[Travellers' Times @TravellersTimes]

Have you seen @GypsyTravellerM's new Healthy Relationships toolkit? Take a look at their resource to help young people spot the warning signs of abuse and know their rights in a relationship 👇

https://t.co/A8C8ZQqxPo

[Dean Rheims 🏕️🚀🐎🌌🔥 @DeanRheims]

I'm looking forward to this Saturday's next lesson with Traveller+ Community Residency at @queerbritain it's really lovely to be able to share a space and time with everybody and it's been such an exploration of my queer-ness as a Gypsy Traveller. Such a fabulous project :)

[Declan O'Driscoll @Dec_ODriscoll]

It is incredibly important to this work that Gypsy and Traveller community members feel safe and supported to come forward about their experiences of unlawful racial discrimination.

Without whistleblowers it is almost impossible to enact change. #whistleblowers #GRT

[EHRC @EHRC]

Whistleblowing was crucial to our investigation into Pontins. In this case, a former employee got in touch to provide us with a copy of an ‘Undesirable Guest List’ in March 2020.

We've blogged about the importance of whistleblowing here: https://t.co/HSuGarVh8a