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              BDA Statement: A collaborative journey to celebrate BSL in football
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              British Sign Language takes its rightful place at Anfield – and beyond
            • Header image for web page
              Open Call – New Opportunity for LFC fans
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BSL Bill

We’re live from Westminster!

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As Parliament passes British Sign Language Bill today, recognising BSL as a language of Great Britain for the first time, re-watch our footage of the day’s events and the moment it all happened!

27th April 2022

British Sign Language Bill passes 2nd reading in the House of Lords

BSL-Bill-Second-Reading-Feat

A Bill to recognise British Sign Language (BSL) as a language of England, Scotland and Wales passed unopposed by Peers on Friday 25 March on its second reading in the House of Lords. It will now move on to Committee Stage.

25th March 2022

BSL Bill for Wales – What’s next?

Welsh_Assembly_chamber_seating

On 24th February 2021, Mark Isherwood, MS for North Wales introduced a motion to the Senedd – the Welsh Parliament. This was for a ‘Member’s Legislative Proposal for a British Sign Language Bill for Wales’.

23rd March 2021

Update – Meeting with NI MLAs & Kate Green MP

bda-chair-update-20-11-17

Video update from BDA Chair with what has been happening lately.

20th November 2017

Channel 4 – ‘The Political Slot’ – BDA response

The Political Slot

The BDA Board of Trustees have accepted Asif Iqbal resignation forthwith from the BDA Board of Trustees and we thank him for his term as a trustee.

18th October 2017

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