Professor Michelle Norris:

On the question of the approved housing bodies, we met these bodies and their representative body. We have figures in the report on Travellers' success in getting into mainstream social housing accommodation. We acknowledged that Travellers get more mainstream council housing pro ratathan the size of their community would suggest. They are successful in getting into mainstream council housing; there is just not enough of it. They are also successful in getting into approved housing body, AHB, housing, albeit not at the same rate as getting into council housing. The specific issues we identified with the approved housing bodies is their role in the delivery of Traveller-specific accommodation. They are now major providers of social housing but the level of Traveller-specific accommodation provided by approved housing bodies is extremely low.

We identified only two or three sites. As they are now major providers of social housing, we would like to see more of that.