Government to examine report on Roma social exclusion in 2010

The government’s report on the Roma minority for 2010 states that a considerable part of the population lives in a condition of social exclusion. The cabinet is to examine the report next Wednesday. The document cites a serious systemic and social problem with sweeping political impacts and an alarming lack of progress in integrating Roma children from excluded environments. It also notes that a number of municipalities have created a system of residential and social policies that essentially displace troublesome groups of people to the community’s outskirts. Problems with unemployment and education it says are then rampant in such areas. Recent statistics show there are around 400 slums in the Czech Republic with an estimated number of 80,000 inhabitants, predominantly from the Roma minority.