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Blue Jones in Downing Street.

Blue Jones is a Youth Parliament member, and the overal winner of the Try-Angle Awards in Canterbury this year. He is campaigning for National Children's Rights Day to become a national holiday. He hopes it will help children to understand their rights and tackle the problems of bullying and racial discrimination that many Gypsies and travellers face.

Jonny

Jonny Goldsmith is presenting a petition which calls for National Roma Day, on the 8th April, to become a national holiday. It will give the same prominence to Gypsies that such events as Black History Month give to other ethnic minorities. He hopes the day will help recognise the Gypsy and traveller culture, and give them time to travel.

Libby

Libby is campaigning for more local sites for Gypsies and travellers. There are many young travellers who still live on the roadside and find it impossible to go to school to get a basic education. Many Gypsies and travellers face bullying when they do attend school because of their lack of reading and writing skills.