Test results for Travellers - find information about them

Here is the table of test results for this task. The score on each row is out of a possible total of 20, and the importance column is a rating of 1-5 according to how important testers considered being able to complete this task was.

Filter within results: or click headings to sort.

CouncilNavigationA-ZGoogleSite searchScoreTestsImportance
Argyll and Bute CouncilGave upVery easyGave up-93
Barnsley Metropolitan Borough CouncilVery easyVery easyVery easy203
Birmingham City CouncilVery easyVery easyVery easy163
Birmingham City CouncilVery easyVery easyVery easy123
Birmingham City CouncilVery easyVery easyVery easy13
Bracknell Forest CouncilGave upDifficultVery easy-53
Bracknell Forest CouncilEasyDifficultDifficult63
Bracknell Forest CouncilDifficultDifficultDifficult43
Brent CouncilGave upVery easyDifficult-51
Carlisle City CouncilVery easyVery easyEasy183
Cheshire East CouncilVery easyVery easyVery easy183
City of Edinburgh CouncilGave upGave upGave up-123
Coventry City CouncilGave upEasyEasy63
Great Yarmouth Borough CouncilEasyEasyDifficult73
Leicester City Council
Liverpool City CouncilVery easyVery easyVery easy163
Liverpool City CouncilVery easyVery easyVery easy163
London Borough of Hammersmith and FulhamGave upGave upGave up-123
London Borough of Hammersmith and FulhamGave upGave upGave up-123
London Borough of LewishamDifficultVery easyVery easy143
Newcastle City CouncilGave upGave upGave up-120
Nottinghamshire County CouncilGave upVery easyVery easy103
Plymouth City CouncilVery easyVery easyEasy93
Rotherham Metropolitan Borough CouncilVery easyEasyEasy31
Royal Borough of Kensington and ChelseaVery easyGave upGave up-93
Scottish Borders CouncilGave upGave upGave up-123
Stockton-on-Tees Borough CouncilDifficultDifficultEasy20
Wandsworth CouncilVery easyVery easyVery easy33
Wychavon District CouncilVery easyDifficultDifficult-13

Specific comments made about this task

Birmingham City Council - 2014-02-11
Found 'unauthorised encampments' easy enough under Environmental Health; finding positive information via navigation about/for Travellers was much harder.

Birmingham City Council - 2016-07-18
I found a single page which was an introduction, promising more detail - but that detail wasn't there

Bracknell Forest Council - 2014-03-07
Page, when found, is called 'Unauthorised encampments' - how meaningful is this to the customer? Search finds PDFs over the page.

Bracknell Forest Council - 2014-03-20
Content only refers to unauthorised encampments and how to report

Brent Council - 2014-05-01
PDF included very out of date information

Carlisle City Council - 2014-04-14
Plenty of information available as a PDF although it is quite long but was still useful.

Coventry City Council - 2014-02-05
The most helpful ways to search for this query was by navigation through the home page, Internal and Google search. These were rated as easy. However, the A-Z search was difficult but I got there in the end. I searched through the 'T' section for travellers but wasn't sure wich part to go on. On the other three helpful searches, I managed to find relevant information for travellers. To improve the A-Z section, they could put another heading like 'Traveller information' so it would be easier to find it.

Great Yarmouth Borough Council - 2014-09-04
Didn't think that travellers would be under G for gypsy once I searched under A-Z it came up under housing which I did not look under internally but looked under community or Environment as this is where I thought it might be. It may be that we have some catergories under the wrong headings on home page.

Liverpool City Council - 2015-01-15
"Gypsy and Traveller Service" does not show up within the internal search results. Also "Gypsy and Traveller Service" and "Gypsy and Traveller Sites" do not have any related links to one-another.

Liverpool City Council - 2015-01-15
"Gypsy and Traveller Service" does not show up within the internal search results. Also "Gypsy and Traveller Service" and "Gypsy and Traveller Sites" do not have any related links to one-another.

London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham - 2014-02-21
PDFs delivered in search results

Nottinghamshire County Council - 2014-10-30
Pretty easy to find and fairly good content.

Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea - 2016-07-20
Searches pulled up minutes of meetings talking about Travellers' sites, but no information.

Scottish Borders Council - 2014-03-05
The only thing I could find remotely related was a comment on the education out of school page saying they aim to promote inclusive approaches to learning for travelling children, and some FOI requests.

Wychavon District Council - 2017-07-20
An internal search did at least bring up some information about planning permission for Travellers' sites. In .pdf files. And the Google search at least pulled up an 18 month old council news story about a consultation.