Open AccessAcross the great divide:The impact of digital inequality on Scotland’s Gypsy/Traveller children and young people during the COVID-19 emergency
Author(s) -
Lynne Tammi
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
international journal of roma studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2462-425X
DOI - 10.17583/ijrs.2020.6301
Subject(s) - pandemic , covid-19 , snapshot (computer storage) , inequality , economic growth , government (linguistics) , political science , geography , public relations , medicine , computer science , economics , virology , mathematical analysis , linguistics , philosophy , mathematics , disease , pathology , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty) , operating system
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.