The Department for Education and Skills (DfES) will hold regional seminars with head teachers, practitioners and children's services directors over the next year to discuss how to improve the life chances and outcomes of these young people.
The Government is consulting directors of children's services on how they are engaging Traveller young people. Sheila Longstaff, policy adviser at the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Achievement Project, part of the Ethnic Minority Achievement Unit in the DfES, said: "The main problem is that there are no targets for inclusion of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller young people."
The unit is currently running an e-learning pilot with 26 local authorities to help Gypsy, Roma and Traveller young people to reintegrate into schools.
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