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The government has tried to claim credit for a scheme that will significantly increase the number of interpreters trained to support Deafblind people, despite providing just £15,000 in new funding. In one of the Labour government’s few non-employment-related announcements aimed at […]
A partnership between Deaf people and British Sign Language (BSL) interpreters could be set to transform the future of interpreting across the UK. Leading Deaf figures are supporting a new co-operative that is developing an online platform that they hope will […]
A Deaf advice worker could lose her job because of a “ridiculous” ruling by Access to Work advisers, who rejected her application because they claimed the interpreters who helped her communicate with clients were “doing the work” for her. Lottie Powell […]
The government has resorted to asking employers to move Deaf members of staff to jobs that require less use of interpreters, according to campaigners protesting about the coalition’s changes and cuts to the troubled Access to Work (AtW) scheme. Members of […]