Why travelling performers are angry over Government plans to change their children's schooling

A young woman who swapped a job on her mother's candyfloss van for a place at Cambridge University has hit out at government plans to stop children from travelling circuses and fairs being educated on the road.

Currently the children are registered at one school and keep that place even while touring.

The government wants to close the legal loophole that allows show people to educate their children on the road meaning they'd be expected to attend school every day.

Click below to watch a report by ITV News Anglia's Natalie Gray:


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