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	Culturally appropriate practices is about caring for diversity, identifying needs &amp; potentials for culturally appropriate social care support services for traveller&rsquo;s &amp; children&rsquo;s welfare. <strong>&lsquo;Caring for Diversity&rsquo;</strong> is a report commissioned in 2002 and published in 2003 with the assistance of Traveller Familes Care and Shared Rearing Service. The research encompasses info on <strong>Irish traveller children in foster care</strong>, and residential care, deliberating on principle needs, such as: &nbsp;Registering the traveller community as an ethnic group, and maintaining foster child links with the travelling community. The emerging theme of Caring for Diversity was recognition that the traveller group are in Ireland travelling as a cultural people with ethnic status, which gives them a<strong> legal status as a people</strong>. &nbsp;</p>
