BSL Bill

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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!

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

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.

BSL Bill for Wales – What’s next?

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’.

Update – Meeting with NI MLAs & Kate Green MP

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

Channel 4 – ‘The Political Slot’ – BDA response

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.

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