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The government is facing the threat of fresh legal action after it failed to provide a British Sign Language (BSL) interpreter at a televised pandemic briefing by the prime minister, despite spending £2.6 million on a new media room. Deaf campaigners […]
The “vast majority” of important COVID-19-related information provided by the UK government is not accessible to users of British Sign Language (BSL), a new investigation has found. A report on the investigation will be submitted by lawyers for BSL-user Katie Rowley […]
A Deaf campaigner is set to take legal action against both the government and the Labour party after they both failed to provide British Sign Language (BSL) interpreters at televised coronavirus briefings this week. Katie Rowley, who is pregnant, said it […]
A Deaf activist is walking from Gloucester to Downing Street to draw attention to the government’s “callous and heartless” refusal to provide a British Sign Language (BSL) interpreter at its coronavirus TV briefings. Lynn Stewart-Taylor, founder of the #WhereIsTheInterpreter campaign, and […]