Make British Sign Language part of the National Curriculum

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Popularity

This petition has 35,203 signatures in total, with signatories from all 650 constituencies. That makes it the 688th most popular petition of all time.

Geography

This petition has a Diversity Rating of 82% (average) and a Local Issue Rating of 18% (average).

Signatures by Constituency

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

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

Signatures by Region

• 4,853 - South East
• 3,956 - East of England
• 3,796 - North West
• 3,286 - West Midlands
• 3,240 - South West
• 3,067 - London
• 3,001 - Scotland
• 2,858 - Yorkshire and The Humber
• 2,648 - East Midlands
• 1,717 - North East
• 1,539 - Wales
• 679 - Northern Ireland

Signatures by Country

• 34,967 - United Kingdom
• 31 - Australia
• 30 - United States
• 25 - France
• 13 - Ireland
• 11 - Spain
• 10 - Gibraltar
• 10 - Germany
• 10 - Canada
• 9 - Jersey
• 7 - Netherlands
• 6 - Isle of Man
• 6 - Belgium
• 5 - New Zealand
• 5 - Switzerland
• 4 - Norway
• 4 - Italy
• 3 - Bahrain
• 3 - Guernsey
• 3 - Poland
• 3 - Cyprus
• 3 - Romania
• 3 - Pakistan
• 2 - Portugal
• 2 - Turkey
• 2 - Tunisia
• 2 - United Arab Emirates
• 2 - Brazil
• 2 - Denmark
• 1 - St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
• 1 - Costa Rica
• 1 - Bulgaria
• 1 - Tuvalu
• 1 - Uganda
• 1 - Austria
• 1 - Uruguay
• 1 - British Virgin Islands
• 1 - Sweden
• 1 - Czechia
• 1 - India
• 1 - Jamaica
• 1 - Japan
• 1 - Sri Lanka
• 1 - Indonesia
• 1 - Hong Kong
• 1 - Greece
• 1 - Oman
• 1 - Georgia
• 1 - South Africa