Submitted by Elizabeth Andrea Corbett on Tuesday 9th December 2025
Published on Tuesday 20th January 2026
Current status: Open
Open until: Monday 20th July 2026
Current Signatures: 4,250
(count is updated approximately hourly)
Relevant Departments
Tagged with
2022 ~ Access ~ British ~ British Sign Language ~ Deaf ~ Dying ~ Emergency ~ emergency services ~ Ensure ~ Equal ~ Equality Act ~ Equality Act 2010 ~ fund ~ health care ~ Healthcare ~ Prevent ~ Signed
Fund more British Sign Language (BSL) interpreters in the emergency services
Fund more BSL interpreting services to ensure they continue throughout emergencies from start until finish. As it stands interpretation from BSL 999 ends when emergency services is dispatched, but there is often no interpreter during the emergency.
We want to ensure deaf people have equal access to emergency services without communication barriers and ensure the Equality Act 2010 and BSL Act 2022 are upheld.
Research has shown that many deaf people are dying young or have complex healthcare due to barriers. We want to prevent healthcare inequalities among the deaf community.
If you want to sign this petition (as opposed to merely discuss it), you need to do that on the government's e-Petitions website.
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