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Avon Consortium Traveller Education Service (ACTES)

We have a responsibility to provide education to the children of travellers who have settled in North Somerset.

We do this through ACTES which is a partnership with Bristol City Council, Bath and North East Somerset Council and South Gloucestershire Council.

ACTES supports the following five groups of travellers and aims to ensure the educational needs of their children are met:

  • Showmen (Fairground) Travellers
  • Circus Travellers
  • New Travellers
  • Irish Travellers
  • Gypsies

ACTES works in partnership with traveller parents, mainstream schools and other professionals in order to provide children with access to and a continuity of education.

The service is led by South Gloucestershire on behalf of the other authorities.

For further information contact the ACTES team on 01454 862 620 / 621 or 622.