Legal status of BSL

Press Release: BDA challenge UK Gov at UN

The British Deaf Association, with other Deaf and Disabled People’s Organisations (DDPOs) from across the United Kingdom, will today attend the United Nations in Geneva to highlight the government’s ongoing human rights violations and evasive behaviour towards a major United Nations committee.

BDA welcomes “historic” decision

BDA NI welcomes the Health and Social Care Board’s recent decision to remodel the current system for providing British Sign Language and Irish Sign Language interpreters for Health and Social Care.

BBC to provide Election debates in BSL

The BBC will be having two General Election “Question Time“ programmes with all the political party leaders, and the repeat programmes of QT will be interpreted into BSL.

Conservatives refuse BSL translation of Manifesto

The Conservative party have refused to provide BSL interpretation of their Manifesto despite repeated requests

Legal status for BSL – Scotland

Currently the Scottish Parliament considers a BSL (Scotland) Bill introduced by Mark Griffin MSP that all national and local public authorities must produce a BSL plan to ensure that Deaf people can have access to their services. This will be the UK’s first ever parliamentary Bill solely focusing on BSL so we hope this will […]

Campaigning for BSL

The British Deaf Association has campaigned for 120 years on the rights of Deaf people and sign language users.

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