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February 9, 2021 by Liam O'Dell

Comments Off on Deaf News: UK Government contests #WhereIsTheInterpreter, saying legal claim serves ‘no practical purpose’

Lawyers acting on behalf of the UK Government have asked the High Court to reject a judicial review over #WhereIsTheInterpreter, […]

December 18, 2020 by Liam O'Dell

Legal proceedings have been launched against the Cabinet Office over its failure to provide a British Sign Language interpreter for […]

December 16, 2020 by Liam O'Dell

The “majority” of written government guidance on the coronavirus demands a Year 9 level of reading to understand it, a […]

December 11, 2020 by Liam O'Dell

Comments Off on Revealed: UK Government to fund BSL interpretation of COVID briefings on social media

The Cabinet Office is to provide British Sign Language (BSL) access to future coronavirus briefings on its social media accounts, […]

October 16, 2020 by Liam O'Dell

Calls for UK political leaders to make their coronavirus statements accessible to the Deaf community have ramped up this week, […]

September 16, 2020 by Liam O'Dell

Let’s take a step back – perhaps at the recommended two metres – and take another look at the news […]

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 […]

August 5, 2020 by Liam O'Dell

Comments Off on Revealed: UK Government failed to consider equalities impact for coronavirus briefings

The UK Government did not carry out an Equalities Impact Assessment for its daily statements on coronavirus, The Limping Chicken […]

August 21, 2014 by Editor

There are such a lot of insidious, barely noticeable changes happening right now that it’s pretty much impossible for anyone […]

June 26, 2014 by Editor

The government has put in place some new ‘reforms’ – changes to current practice, which are directly within the Special […]