Chamber
Meeting of the Parliament 16 March 2016
16 Mar 2016 · S4 · Meeting of the Parliament
Item of business
Portfolio Question Time
British Sign Language (Scotland) Act 2015 (Implementation)
Education and Lifelong Learning
We have established a British Sign Language national advisory group, which will inform the development of the first BSL national plan. On Friday, we announced that the group will comprise nine Scottish public bodies that are subject to the 2015 act and 10 deaf people whose first language is BSL. An 11th BSL representative is a hearing parent of a deaf child. The group will meet six times in the next 18 months and the first BSL national plan will be published by October 2017.
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14. Dennis Robertson (Aberdeenshire West) (SNP)
SNP
To ask the Scottish Government what progress it is making in implementing the British Sign Language (Scotland) Act 2015. (S4O-05669)
The Minister for Learning, Science and Scotland’s Languages (Dr Alasdair Allan)
SNP
We have established a British Sign Language national advisory group, which will inform the development of the first BSL national plan. On Friday, we announce...
Dennis Robertson
SNP
I am sure that the minister will agree that it is important for parents and families to get involved at home in the teaching of a child. What specific suppor...
Dr Allan
SNP
I very much agree that parents are the most important people in a child’s life and that we need to support what they do. We are providing substantial funding...