Sign up to be part of legal case for BSL interpreters at daily TV crisis briefings (with BSL)

Sign up to be part of the legal case here.

A legal case is being launched which seeks to ensure that BSL English interpreters are provided at live televised daily briefings from the government, so that deaf people who use BSL as their first language have full access to the critical information released during the coronavirus crisis.

Watch the BSL video below (if it doesn’t appear, click here to view it), or scroll down for more information in English:

If you’ve been affected by the lack of interpreting provision, you can sign up to be part of the legal case by filling out an online form at this link.

There is no financial risk involved.

The case is being supported by a range of deaf organisations and individuals, and has been taken on by Fry Law.

The organisations and individuals supporting this and working for change are (in alphabetical order):

Access Bedford

Action Deafness

ASLI – Association of Sign Language Interpreters

BATOD – British Association of Teachers of the Deaf

CfD – Centre for Deaf and Hard of Hearing People

Deaf4Deaf

DCAL – Deafness, Cognition and Language Research Centre, University College London

DTOD – Deaf Teachers of the Deaf UK

DPAC – Disabled People Against Cuts

DeafPLUS

Gloucester Deaf Association

Lynn Stewart-Taylor

NUBSLI – National Union of British Sign Language Interpreters

NRCPD – National Register of Communication Professionals working with Deaf and Deafblind People

Reasonable Access

SignHealth

Stop Changes to Access to Work

The Deaf LGBTIQA Project

The Limping Chicken Blog

The Royal Association for Deaf People

UK Council on Deafness