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Provide a sign language interpreter on the live briefing on coronavirus updates

Submitted on Friday 24th April 2020

Rejected on Friday 3rd July 2020

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Provide a sign language interpreter on the live briefing on coronavirus updates

Petition Details

The government should have a sign language interpreter on their live briefing so the deaf community can be included in the updates.

Additional Information

As sign language is their only communication. The subtitles are not efficient as it’s not in time and hard to follow.
UK is the only country that does not provide this basic service. The government is not being inclusive.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

You may wish to sign some of these petitions:

Require British Sign Language Interpreters for emergency announcements on TV: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/301461

Provide live BSL interpretation for coronavirus briefings from the PM: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/301844

You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:

www.gov.uk/coronavirus
www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/

The Government has also created an online service to help you find out what you can do if you’re struggling because of coronavirus: www.gov.uk/find-coronavirus-support

You can read NHS tips to help if you are worried about coronavirus here: www.nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-matters/coronavirus-covid-19-anxiety-tips

You can read impartial analysis of the Government response to coronavirus and policy developments here: commonslibrary.parliament.uk/coronavirus/

You may also be interested to know that because of the large number of petitions that have been started in relation to coronavirus, the Petitions Committee has been questioning the Government about its response to the coronavirus outbreak.

Find out more: committees.parliament.uk/work/192/the-governments-response-to-coronavirus/

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