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March 22, 2023 by Liam O'Dell

Comments Off on Interview: Minister for Disabled People Tom Pursglove on Where Is The Interpreter, Access to Work delays and more (BSL)

Following his speech at the British Deaf Association’s first ever British Sign Language (BSL) conference, during which he announced the […]

January 28, 2022 by Liam O'Dell

Comments Off on BREAKING: British Sign Language (BSL) Bill passes second reading in Commons

A Bill to recognise British Sign Language (BSL) as an official language moved one step closer to becoming law on […]

November 16, 2021 by Liam O'Dell

Access to Work (AtW), the UK Government scheme which supports disabled people in the workplace, is continuing to experience administrative […]

October 21, 2021 by Liam O'Dell

The UK Government needs to reform its Access to Work and Disability Confident schemes in order to address disadvantages encountered […]

September 22, 2021 by Liam O'Dell

Lengthy delays to Access to Work payments – sometimes of many months – are causing severe anxiety for communication professionals, […]

August 20, 2020 by Liam O'Dell

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is to better its support for deaf customers using video relay, it has […]

March 9, 2020 by Liam O'Dell

I’ve written before about domino effects – the constant barriers which come up at every stage of a deaf child’s […]

May 19, 2016 by Editor

Ethel Neal, a Deaf woman from South London, has been found guilty of three counts of fraud. Three other Deaf men, Paul Neal, Stephen Dering […]

May 12, 2016 by Editor

A Deaf man has been jailed for 20 months for defrauding the DWP out of £80,000 in Access to Work […]

February 5, 2016 by Editor

In a move that is sure to worry Deaf people who use the Access to Work scheme, which gives Deaf and […]