Profoundly deaf Yusuf Nuur, 14, from Manchester, met Prime Minister David Cameron yesterday at the Conservative Party Conference. Yusuf called on the Prime Minister to support the Stolen Futures campaign, run by the National Deaf Children’s Society (NDCS), and stop council cuts to vital school support for deaf children.
At the Conference, the young NDCS campaigner urged the Prime Minister to also support a debate in Parliament to protect funding for education services, including Teachers of the Deaf who provide support for deaf children in a classroom.
Yusuf said: “I was absolutely chuffed that I had the opportunity to speak to Mr Cameron and to highlight the need to stop any reductions in education for deaf children. The Party Conference was a brilliant opportunity to meet with people who actually have the power to make change happen for deaf children.”
To support the Stolen Futures campaign go to www.ndcs.org.uk/stolenfutures.
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jo
October 1, 2013
Yusuf Nuur,what an amazing opportunity this must have been, its such a shame when the children of this world have to stand up and say whats necessary
pennybsl
October 1, 2013
Delighted!!!!!
Deaf children are TOMORROW’s citizens, Deaf & hearing worlds, they are the future – we must ensure the Government (whatever party in charge) STOPS its meddling about in education, health, care and support packages.
Especially in stupidly delegating vulnerable issues to inexperienced ministers of education, health and care. It has to be said, because all our hard work in Deaf Equality and Access have been unbelievably regressed within the last few years.
We prefer all d/Deaf and SEN children to be supported by an All-Party Consortium, because party politics ignorant of genuine expertise in Deaf & SEN Education have wasted billions of pounds, changing the goalposts so many times in the last ten years, that those children’s futures are actually at serious risk.
There is always a ripple effect from each Deaf / SEN child – family, community, society – when ignorant tight-fisted cuts are done by LAs who are now vastly inconsistent with its neighbouring boroughs on SEN policy. That fragmented approach is an abuse of Human Rights towards the child, if one looks at the situation from a vantage point.
Well done the NDCS.