Engagement with BSL users needed to deliver improvements
Channel: The Scottish Parliament
Date: 26/04/2015

The Scottish Parliament’s Education and Culture Committee has launched its Stage 1 Report for the British Sign Language (Scotland) Bill with recommendations emphasising the need for the bill to deliver tangible improvements for BSL Users. The Bill was introduced as a Member’s Bill by Mark Griffin MSP and the committee has been scrutinising it ahead of presenting its recommendations to the full Scottish Parliament  on May 5. In this video the Committee Convener, Stewart Maxwell MSP, reflects on the committee’s findings with BSL users who have been involved in campaigning for BSL rights.

For further information, please go to:

http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/CurrentCommittees/83760.aspx

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