'Britain has a duty to help the most vulnerable Gypsies and Travellers'

Click the picture above to read the full text of Mike Doherty's article on Britain's duty to help the most vulnerable Gypsies and Travellers. Source: screengrab from the Guardian website 

'The UK's Romany, Gypsy and Traveller communities have been rocked to the core by a recent spate of suicides among their young men and women.', writes Mike Doherty in the Guardian.

Rates of depression or anxiety, which many Travellers refer to as "nerves", may be over four times higher than they are in the settled community.

Something is clearly wrong, yet the background to these problems is rarely understood and most local health authorities- nearly three quarters- are failing to monitor the health of Gypsies and Travellers.

Read the full article by Mike Doherty here on the Guardian website.