Across the great divide:The impact of digital inequality on Scotland’s Gypsy/Traveller children and young people during the COVID-19 emergency
https://doi.org/10.17583/ijrs.2020.6301
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This article examines current Scottish national and local government awareness of, and responses to, the learning and development needs and entitlements of Gypsy/Traveller children and young people pre and during the COVID-19 pandemic. A snapshot analysis of emerging testimony from Learning and Development Workers and parents and young people focuses on, and gives insight to, how the lack of access to digital devices and data and front-line workers’ discretionary decision making has impacted on young Gypsy/Travellers’ ability to access formal and non-formal learning and development during the pandemic.
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