Make British Sign Language part of the National Curriculum.

• Petition
• Statistics

Popularity

This petition has 34,977 signatures in total, with signatories from all 650 constituencies. That makes it the 693rd most popular petition of all time.

Geography

This petition has a Diversity Rating of 77% (average) and a Local Issue Rating of 23% (average).

Signatures by Constituency

• 634 - North Tyneside
• 215 - Tynemouth
• 187 - Birmingham, Northfield
• 159 - Blyth Valley
• 140 - Newcastle upon Tyne North
• 137 - Newcastle upon Tyne East
• 135 - Thurrock
• 131 - Cannock Chase
• 127 - Milton Keynes South
• 121 - Aldershot
• 113 - Rochester and Strood
• 113 - Colchester
• 99 - Sittingbourne and Sheppey
• 99 - Derby North
• 98 - Blaydon
• 97 - Birmingham, Selly Oak
• 96 - St Helens North
• 95 - North Thanet
• 94 - Croydon Central
• 92 - Darlington
• 90 - Wythenshawe and Sale East
• 90 - Wyre Forest
• 89 - Birmingham, Erdington
• 89 - Halesowen and Rowley Regis
• 89 - Exeter
• 89 - Loughborough
• 89 - Stockton South
• 89 - Kettering
• 88 - Walsall North
• 88 - Norwich South
• 88 - South Shields
• 87 - Lewisham, Deptford
• 87 - City of Durham
• 86 - South West Bedfordshire
• 86 - Newcastle upon Tyne Central
• 86 - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
• 86 - South Thanet
• 85 - Manchester Central
• 84 - Birmingham, Edgbaston
• 84 - Derby South
• 84 - Wansbeck
• 84 - Telford
• 84 - Meriden
• 83 - Salford and Eccles
• 83 - Hornsey and Wood Green
• 83 - North East Hertfordshire
• 83 - Barking
• 82 - Wolverhampton North East
• 82 - Corby
• 82 - Gillingham and Rainham
• 81 - Washington and Sunderland West
• 81 - Hornchurch and Upminster
• 81 - Basingstoke
• 81 - Chatham and Aylesford
• 81 - Ashford
• 80 - Lincoln
• 80 - Stockton North
• 80 - Southampton, Test
• 80 - Lewisham East
• 80 - Broxtowe
• 79 - Bolton South East
• 79 - Solihull
• 78 - Chippenham
• 78 - Gateshead
• 78 - Jarrow
• 78 - Crawley
• 77 - Maidstone and The Weald
• 77 - Harlow
• 76 - Middlesbrough
• 75 - Bedford
• 75 - Dudley North
• 75 - Hove
• 75 - South Basildon and East Thurrock
• 75 - West Lancashire
• 75 - Mid Bedfordshire
• 75 - South West Wiltshire
• 75 - Dagenham and Rainham
• 74 - Greenwich and Woolwich
• 74 - Stevenage
• 74 - Leeds Central
• 74 - Bristol West
• 73 - Dartford
• 73 - Basildon and Billericay
• 72 - Upper Bann
• 72 - South Ribble
• 72 - Hastings and Rye
• 72 - Wells
• 72 - Wolverhampton South East
• 72 - Stourbridge
• 72 - Cheltenham
• 72 - Birmingham, Yardley
• 71 - Bromley and Chislehurst
• 71 - Redcar
• 71 - Weaver Vale
• 71 - Worsley and Eccles South
• 70 - Aylesbury
• 70 - Lewisham West and Penge
• 70 - Milton Keynes North
• 70 - Wellingborough
• 70 - Peterborough
• 69 - Canterbury
• 69 - Eltham
• 69 - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
• 69 - Bracknell
• 69 - Halton
• 69 - North West Durham
• 69 - Gloucester
• 69 - Preston
• 69 - West Ham
• 69 - Erith and Thamesmead
• 69 - Watford
• 68 - Erewash
• 68 - Waveney
• 68 - Ashfield
• 68 - Burnley
• 68 - Bath
• 68 - Leicester West
• 68 - Enfield North
• 67 - Houghton and Sunderland South
• 67 - North Swindon
• 67 - Wolverhampton South West
• 67 - Calder Valley
• 67 - Norwich North
• 67 - Walsall South
• 67 - Brighton, Pavilion
• 67 - Cardiff South and Penarth
• 66 - Motherwell and Wishaw
• 66 - East Devon
• 66 - Banbury
• 66 - Sunderland Central
• 66 - Northampton North
• 66 - Beverley and Holderness
• 66 - Bristol South
• 66 - Warrington North
• 65 - Nottingham North
• 65 - Southampton, Itchen
• 65 - Huntingdon
• 65 - Oxford East
• 65 - East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
• 65 - Leeds East
• 65 - St Helens South and Whiston
• 65 - West Bromwich West
• 65 - Bethnal Green and Bow
• 65 - Bosworth
• 64 - Chelmsford
• 64 - Huddersfield
• 64 - Hazel Grove
• 64 - Manchester, Withington
• 64 - Hemel Hempstead
• 64 - Wrexham
• 64 - Leeds West
• 64 - South Staffordshire
• 64 - Nottingham South
• 64 - North West Cambridgeshire
• 64 - Mid Norfolk
• 64 - Hartlepool
• 64 - Denton and Reddish
• 64 - Edinburgh North and Leith
• 63 - Torridge and West Devon
• 63 - Kingston upon Hull East
• 63 - Camborne and Redruth
• 63 - Orpington
• 63 - Tamworth
• 63 - Liverpool, Riverside
• 63 - Batley and Spen
• 63 - Ipswich
• 63 - Daventry
• 63 - Burton
• 63 - Filton and Bradley Stoke
• 62 - Blackburn
• 62 - Ribble Valley
• 62 - Orkney and Shetland
• 62 - Garston and Halewood
• 62 - Wycombe
• 62 - Romford
• 62 - Mansfield
• 62 - Reading West
• 62 - Rossendale and Darwen
• 62 - North East Derbyshire
• 61 - Stockport
• 61 - Salisbury
• 61 - Mid Derbyshire
• 61 - North East Bedfordshire
• 61 - St Albans
• 61 - North East Hampshire
• 61 - East Worthing and Shoreham
• 61 - North Durham
• 61 - Hertford and Stortford
• 61 - Bridgwater and West Somerset
• 61 - The Wrekin
• 61 - Bristol North West
• 60 - Windsor
• 60 - Rochford and Southend East
• 60 - Birkenhead
• 60 - York Central
• 60 - Rugby
• 60 - Bromsgrove
• 60 - Broxbourne
• 60 - Doncaster Central
• 60 - Eastbourne
• 59 - Folkestone and Hythe
• 59 - Ellesmere Port and Neston
• 59 - Northampton South
• 59 - Leicester South
• 59 - Reading East
• 59 - Edinburgh East
• 59 - Sleaford and North Hykeham
• 59 - Tottenham
• 59 - Leigh
• 59 - Coventry North East
• 59 - Leyton and Wanstead
• 59 - South Norfolk
• 58 - Bolton West
• 58 - Redditch
• 58 - Birmingham, Perry Barr
• 58 - Manchester, Gorton
• 58 - Thirsk and Malton
• 58 - Morley and Outwood
• 58 - Brent Central
• 57 - Stratford-on-Avon
• 57 - Bexhill and Battle
• 57 - Walthamstow
• 57 - Islington North
• 57 - Midlothian
• 57 - Ashton-under-Lyne
• 57 - Warrington South
• 57 - Kingswood
• 57 - Devizes
• 57 - Southend West
• 57 - Dudley South
• 57 - Luton North
• 56 - High Peak
• 56 - Oldham East and Saddleworth
• 56 - Old Bexley and Sidcup
• 56 - Bermondsey and Old Southwark
• 56 - Bury North
• 56 - Sheffield South East
• 56 - Sheffield, Heeley
• 56 - Sedgefield
• 56 - Doncaster North
• 56 - Worthing West
• 56 - Gravesham
• 56 - Charnwood
• 56 - Croydon North
• 56 - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford
• 55 - Easington
• 55 - Torbay
• 55 - Barnsley East
• 55 - South Cambridgeshire
• 55 - Holborn and St Pancras
• 55 - Croydon South
• 55 - East Surrey
• 55 - North Wiltshire
• 55 - Beckenham
• 55 - South Swindon
• 55 - Wentworth and Dearne
• 55 - Neath
• 54 - Harwich and North Essex
• 54 - North West Leicestershire
• 54 - Don Valley
• 54 - Stalybridge and Hyde
• 54 - Blackley and Broughton
• 54 - Newbury
• 54 - Uxbridge and South Ruislip
• 54 - Hereford and South Herefordshire
• 54 - Kingston upon Hull North
• 54 - Bridgend
• 54 - Leeds North West
• 54 - Plymouth, Moor View
• 54 - Welwyn Hatfield
• 54 - Liverpool, Wavertree
• 54 - Guildford
• 54 - Eastleigh
• 53 - South West Hertfordshire
• 53 - Bristol East
• 53 - South West Norfolk
• 53 - Faversham and Mid Kent
• 53 - Livingston
• 53 - Stretford and Urmston
• 53 - Rutland and Melton
• 53 - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
• 53 - Hackney South and Shoreditch
• 53 - Hyndburn
• 53 - Harrow West
• 53 - Luton South
• 52 - Barrow and Furness
• 52 - Worcester
• 52 - Clacton
• 52 - Tewkesbury
• 52 - Poplar and Limehouse
• 52 - Oldham West and Royton
• 52 - Warley
• 52 - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
• 52 - Twickenham
• 52 - Runnymede and Weybridge
• 52 - Buckingham
• 52 - Brighton, Kemptown
• 52 - Chipping Barnet
• 52 - Bradford East
• 51 - Gosport
• 51 - Portsmouth North
• 51 - Scarborough and Whitby
• 51 - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner
• 51 - Cambridge
• 51 - Stafford
• 51 - Cheadle
• 51 - Ilford South
• 51 - Ceredigion
• 51 - Mid Worcestershire
• 51 - Taunton Deane
• 51 - Tonbridge and Malling
• 50 - Gedling
• 50 - Yeovil
• 50 - West Dunbartonshire
• 50 - Newton Abbot
• 50 - Tunbridge Wells
• 50 - Stoke-on-Trent North
• 50 - Elmet and Rothwell
• 50 - Lichfield
• 50 - Sherwood
• 50 - Lanark and Hamilton East
• 50 - Louth and Horncastle
• 50 - East Ham
• 50 - Rotherham
• 50 - Blackpool South
• 50 - Portsmouth South
• 50 - Glasgow Central
• 50 - North Devon
• 49 - Shipley
• 49 - Shrewsbury and Atcham
• 49 - Halifax
• 49 - Tiverton and Honiton
• 49 - Dover
• 49 - Surrey Heath
• 49 - Wallasey
• 49 - Henley
• 49 - Newcastle-under-Lyme
• 49 - Kilmarnock and Loudoun
• 49 - Lancaster and Fleetwood
• 49 - West Bromwich East
• 49 - Glasgow North East
• 49 - Vale of Glamorgan
• 48 - Heywood and Middleton
• 48 - Coventry North West
• 48 - Warwick and Leamington
• 48 - Nottingham East
• 48 - Altrincham and Sale West
• 48 - Harrogate and Knaresborough
• 48 - Chorley
• 48 - Bexleyheath and Crayford
• 48 - Arfon
• 48 - Birmingham, Hall Green
• 48 - Berwick-upon-Tweed
• 48 - Braintree
• 48 - Sheffield Central
• 48 - Islington South and Finsbury
• 48 - South Northamptonshire
• 48 - Weston-super-Mare
• 48 - Edinburgh South West
• 48 - Great Yarmouth
• 47 - Romsey and Southampton North
• 47 - Wealden
• 47 - South East Cambridgeshire
• 47 - Macclesfield
• 47 - Dewsbury
• 47 - Coventry South
• 47 - Ilford North
• 47 - Brent North
• 47 - Bury South
• 47 - Finchley and Golders Green
• 47 - Colne Valley
• 47 - Bradford South
• 47 - Aberdeen North
• 46 - Forest of Dean
• 46 - South Holland and The Deepings
• 46 - Derbyshire Dales
• 46 - Rayleigh and Wickford
• 46 - Stone
• 46 - East Lothian
• 46 - Mid Sussex
• 46 - Rutherglen and Hamilton West
• 46 - Aldridge-Brownhills
• 46 - Castle Point
• 46 - Reigate
• 46 - Mitcham and Morden
• 45 - Dulwich and West Norwood
• 45 - Swansea West
• 45 - Stroud
• 45 - South Leicestershire
• 45 - Camberwell and Peckham
• 45 - Sutton Coldfield
• 45 - South Suffolk
• 45 - Hitchin and Harpenden
• 45 - Westmorland and Lonsdale
• 45 - Barnsley Central
• 45 - Rushcliffe
• 45 - Birmingham, Hodge Hill
• 45 - Stoke-on-Trent South
• 45 - North Shropshire
• 45 - Bolton North East
• 45 - Gainsborough
• 45 - Wigan
• 44 - Chingford and Woodford Green
• 44 - Stoke-on-Trent Central
• 44 - Ogmore
• 44 - Hertsmere
• 44 - Tooting
• 44 - Airdrie and Shotts
• 44 - Woking
• 44 - Witham
• 44 - Belfast South
• 44 - Enfield, Southgate
• 44 - Somerton and Frome
• 44 - Glasgow South
• 44 - South Derbyshire
• 43 - Harrow East
• 43 - Richmond Park
• 43 - Hemsworth
• 43 - Morecambe and Lunesdale
• 43 - Richmond (Yorks)
• 43 - Glasgow East
• 43 - Pudsey
• 43 - Nuneaton
• 43 - Harborough
• 43 - Bournemouth West
• 43 - Brentwood and Ongar
• 43 - Chesham and Amersham
• 43 - Chesterfield
• 43 - Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
• 43 - Bury St Edmunds
• 43 - Blackpool North and Cleveleys
• 43 - Horsham
• 42 - City of Chester
• 42 - Liverpool, West Derby
• 42 - Alyn and Deeside
• 42 - Grantham and Stamford
• 42 - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
• 42 - Edmonton
• 42 - Wantage
• 42 - Dunfermline and West Fife
• 42 - Truro and Falmouth
• 42 - Kingston and Surbiton
• 42 - Isle of Wight
• 42 - Hammersmith
• 42 - Spelthorne
• 42 - North Cornwall
• 41 - Maldon
• 41 - Wyre and Preston North
• 41 - Wokingham
• 41 - South West Surrey
• 41 - Liverpool, Walton
• 41 - Ealing Central and Acton
• 41 - North West Norfolk
• 41 - East Yorkshire
• 41 - Central Devon
• 41 - Bradford West
• 41 - Ealing North
• 41 - Sevenoaks
• 41 - Carshalton and Wallington
• 40 - East Dunbartonshire
• 40 - York Outer
• 40 - Fareham
• 40 - Bootle
• 40 - West Worcestershire
• 40 - Epping Forest
• 40 - Edinburgh West
• 40 - Birmingham, Ladywood
• 40 - Clwyd West
• 40 - Hendon
• 40 - Makerfield
• 40 - Hayes and Harlington
• 39 - Epsom and Ewell
• 39 - Great Grimsby
• 39 - West Suffolk
• 39 - Hackney North and Stoke Newington
• 39 - Skipton and Ripon
• 39 - East Londonderry
• 39 - Bishop Auckland
• 39 - Mole Valley
• 39 - Amber Valley
• 39 - North Norfolk
• 39 - Vauxhall
• 39 - Havant
• 39 - Fylde
• 39 - Falkirk
• 39 - Ross, Skye and Lochaber
• 38 - Brentford and Isleworth
• 38 - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton
• 38 - Slough
• 38 - Llanelli
• 38 - Thornbury and Yate
• 38 - Carmarthen East and Dinefwr
• 38 - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
• 38 - North East Cambridgeshire
• 38 - Sutton and Cheam
• 38 - Hampstead and Kilburn
• 38 - Lewes
• 38 - Meon Valley
• 38 - Edinburgh South
• 38 - Newark
• 37 - Westminster North
• 37 - Wirral South
• 37 - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
• 37 - Esher and Walton
• 37 - Crewe and Nantwich
• 37 - Stirling
• 37 - North West Hampshire
• 37 - Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill
• 37 - North Warwickshire
• 37 - St Austell and Newquay
• 37 - Rochdale
• 36 - Keighley
• 36 - Winchester
• 36 - North Down
• 36 - South East Cornwall
• 36 - New Forest East
• 36 - Knowsley
• 36 - Boston and Skegness
• 36 - Poole
• 36 - Feltham and Heston
• 36 - North Ayrshire and Arran
• 35 - South Dorset
• 35 - Suffolk Coastal
• 35 - Beaconsfield
• 35 - Wakefield
• 35 - Hexham
• 35 - Swansea East
• 35 - Linlithgow and East Falkirk
• 35 - Maidenhead
• 35 - Rother Valley
• 35 - Haltemprice and Howden
• 35 - Dundee West
• 35 - Saffron Walden
• 35 - Tatton
• 35 - Mid Dorset and North Poole
• 35 - Cardiff Central
• 35 - Witney
• 35 - Aberavon
• 34 - West Dorset
• 34 - North Dorset
• 34 - North East Somerset
• 34 - Sefton Central
• 34 - Copeland
• 34 - Oxford West and Abingdon
• 34 - Putney
• 34 - Clwyd South
• 33 - Bassetlaw
• 33 - Arundel and South Downs
• 33 - The Cotswolds
• 33 - Carlisle
• 33 - Congleton
• 32 - Bolsover
• 32 - Paisley and Renfrewshire South
• 32 - East Hampshire
• 32 - Totnes
• 32 - Aberconwy
• 32 - Staffordshire Moorlands
• 32 - Ynys Môn
• 32 - North Herefordshire
• 31 - Cardiff North
• 31 - Glasgow North West
• 31 - Angus
• 31 - Bournemouth East
• 31 - North Somerset
• 31 - Ochil and South Perthshire
• 31 - Belfast North
• 31 - Leicester East
• 31 - Caerphilly
• 30 - Glasgow North
• 30 - Ludlow
• 30 - Pendle
• 30 - Broadland
• 30 - Moray
• 30 - Gower
• 30 - Eddisbury
• 30 - Streatham
• 30 - Chelsea and Fulham
• 30 - South West Devon
• 29 - Cardiff West
• 29 - Glasgow South West
• 29 - Chichester
• 29 - Delyn
• 29 - Brigg and Goole
• 29 - Selby and Ainsty
• 29 - Battersea
• 29 - Kenilworth and Southam
• 28 - Central Ayrshire
• 28 - Wirral West
• 28 - Glenrothes
• 28 - Southport
• 28 - West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
• 27 - Cleethorpes
• 27 - East Antrim
• 27 - Pontypridd
• 27 - St Ives
• 27 - Gordon
• 27 - Scunthorpe
• 27 - Penrith and The Border
• 27 - New Forest West
• 26 - Blaenau Gwent
• 26 - Belfast East
• 26 - Argyll and Bute
• 26 - Mid Ulster
• 26 - Aberdeen South
• 25 - Paisley and Renfrewshire North
• 25 - Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire
• 25 - Torfaen
• 24 - Ealing, Southall
• 24 - Leeds North East
• 24 - Newry and Armagh
• 24 - Newport East
• 24 - Dundee East
• 24 - Lagan Valley
• 23 - Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock
• 23 - Monmouth
• 23 - Christchurch
• 23 - Kensington
• 23 - Inverclyde
• 22 - Dwyfor Meirionnydd
• 22 - Workington
• 22 - Cities of London and Westminster
• 22 - Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
• 22 - Foyle
• 22 - Penistone and Stocksbridge
• 21 - Rhondda
• 21 - Dumfries and Galloway
• 21 - Vale of Clwyd
• 21 - Cynon Valley
• 21 - Preseli Pembrokeshire
• 21 - Islwyn
• 20 - Newport West
• 20 - Wimbledon
• 19 - Strangford
• 19 - Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney
• 19 - East Renfrewshire
• 18 - Perth and North Perthshire
• 18 - Sheffield, Hallam
• 18 - Banff and Buchan
• 18 - South Antrim
• 17 - South Down
• 17 - Fermanagh and South Tyrone
• 17 - Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale
• 17 - Belfast West
• 15 - Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
• 15 - Brecon and Radnorshire
• 14 - Na h-Eileanan an Iar
• 14 - North Antrim
• 13 - North East Fife
• 12 - Montgomeryshire
• 10 - West Tyrone

This petition was submitted under the Parliamentary boundaries prior to June 2024, so the names may not be current constituency names

Signatures by Region

• 4,721 - South East
• 3,939 - North West
• 3,751 - London
• 3,631 - West Midlands
• 3,388 - East of England
• 3,002 - North East
• 2,819 - South West
• 2,635 - East Midlands
• 2,572 - Yorkshire and The Humber
• 2,181 - Scotland
• 1,331 - Wales
• 483 - Northern Ireland

Signatures by Country

• 34,769 - United Kingdom
• 28 - Australia
• 23 - United States
• 17 - Ireland
• 13 - Spain
• 12 - Canada
• 12 - France
• 12 - Germany
• 9 - Gibraltar
• 7 - Isle of Man
• 7 - New Zealand
• 5 - Switzerland
• 4 - Guernsey
• 3 - United Arab Emirates
• 3 - Vietnam
• 3 - Belgium
• 3 - Tuvalu
• 3 - Netherlands
• 3 - Hong Kong
• 3 - Japan
• 2 - St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
• 2 - Sweden
• 2 - Malta
• 2 - Norway
• 2 - Oman
• 2 - Israel
• 2 - Thailand
• 2 - Austria
• 1 - Slovakia
• 1 - Romania
• 1 - Pitcairn Island
• 1 - Philippines
• 1 - South Africa
• 1 - Turkey
• 1 - Uganda
• 1 - Vatican City
• 1 - Malaysia
• 1 - Bulgaria
• 1 - Costa Rica
• 1 - Cyprus
• 1 - Denmark
• 1 - Western Sahara
• 1 - Finland
• 1 - Greece
• 1 - Hungary
• 1 - Italy
• 1 - Jamaica
• 1 - Cayman Islands
• 1 - Latvia
• 1 - Barbados