deafscotland has produced a number of Human Rights briefings. deafscotland made a Submission to the UK Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights: Inquiry on the ‘UK Government’s COVID-19 Response’. WORD PDF deafscotland wrote a letter to the Scottish Parliament’s Equality and Human Rights Committee asking if the…
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UK PARLIAMENT COMMITTEES
UK Parliament Scottish Affairs Committee: Coronavirus and Scotland Inquiry https://committees.parliament.uk/work/274/coronavirus-and-scotland/publications/ PDF UK Parliament Joint Committee on Human Rights: Inquiry on the UK Government’s COVID-19 Response PDF
SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT COMMITTEES
The Cross Party Group on Mental Health (CPGMH) The CPG on Mental Health focused on the theme of Access to Treatment and Joined-up Accessible Services from the Mental Health Strategy 2017-2027. SAMH and the CPGMH have published a report on…
Scottish Government Consultations
Consultation on the Letter of Rights for Scotland Our response is number 982140293: click here The Advisory Group on Economic Recovery Call for Views: Our response is number 94292526: click here Revenue Scotland The purpose of this consultation is to…
Giving evidence at the Scottish Affairs Committee
Our Chief Officer, Janis McDonald, gave evidence on Wednesday 4 November at the UK Parliament Scottish Affairs Committee. To watch the video, go to 14:01:58 minutes into the recording (the video is only available with audio): https://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/16858b78-bd6d-4030-9765-0d222e6d042d
Self-Management Survey:No 2
Deaf Links is taking forward the Self-Management work that it started with deafscotland. This second phase looks at moderate to severe mental ill-health and how to support Deaf BSL users themselves or are caring for BSL users who are mentally…
OUR CONFERENCE TOMORROW (17 MARCH 2020) IS CANCELLED
In line with the UK Government announcement at 5pm today, it is with much regret that we need to postpone our conference that should have taken place tomorrow (17 March) in the DoubleTree by Hilton in Glasgow. We apologise for any…
Corona Virus Update
We are following the most up-to-date government advice and our conference on Tuesday is still going ahead. We look forward to seeing you there…
Equality Action Pledge
The Coalition for Racial Equality and Rights (CRER) and Glasgow Council for the Voluntary Sector (GCVS) were asking organisations to sign up to the an Equality Action Pledge, which is committed to improving representation in the Third Sector. For more…
Lip reading outcomes
A lip reading survey was done earlier in the year in the NHS Highland area. The questions were based on the therapy outcome measures for hearing rehabilitation. To look at the results, go to https://www.surveymonkey.com/results/SM-RJ93Y5CW7/
Mental Health Summit Report
Thursday 10 October 2019 The first Connect Us Too Summit took place at the Scottish Sensory Centre in the University of Edinburgh. The event was chaired by Nigel Henderson, the Chief Executive of Penumbra, which is a large mental health…
Way to go, Hazel!
Dr Hazel McFarlane, disability researcher and activist, Policy and Implementation Officer and See Hear Lead for South Ayrshire Council, and co-facilitator for our Inclusive Communication and Accessible Information workshop/training, has been named in the Disability Power List 2019 of the…
Job Scheme – ITV SignPost & BSLBT – trainee scheme for Deaf Filmmakers
ITV SignPost has partnered with British Sign Language Broadcasting Trust (BSLBT) to offer a new trainee scheme aimed at getting young Deaf film-makers into the industry. Applications are now being invited from Deaf film-makers and production talent who want…
deafscotland Cycling Survey
deafscotland is producing information on staying safe while cycling for people affected by hearing loss. The following survey will be vital in producing this information and help make the roads safer for everyone. If you could please fill out…
Connect Us Too
deafscotland launched a series of mental health videos on Friday 12 April 2019 at the Tayside Deaf Hub. The videos can be viewed on the deafscotland YouTube site – see below for the links. Out Of My Head: https://youtu.be/0benfedpI-8 The…
2019 Mental Health Programme “Connect Us Too”
On Friday 12 April 2019 deafscotland, Deaf Links and ITV SignPost will be launching a series of related accessible video clips in British Sign Language (BSL) with subtitles and voiceover, introducing some key information from the See Me Campaign about…
Thank you for making our conference great!
deafscotland and Disability Equality Scotland would like to thank all the delegates, stall holders, workshop leaders, language/communication support professionals, sponsors and the hotel for making our Scottish Sensory and Equality Conference 2019: Communication for All a great day. We will…
Safety Survey is now live!
Our safety survey is now live. Please go to https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/ZSKVN7V to take part. This survey will take no longer than 10 minutes and will give us information on who knows what about personal safety and what gaps…
Stirling BSL Day
Historic Environment Scotland are running a day of BSL tours in Stirling on Saturday 22 September. The tours will be led by John Hay, and interpreted by Linda Duncan. The first tour of the day will be at the Engine…
“Mental Health and Wellbeing for all people affected by deafness: Past, Present and Future”
It is 10 years since SCoD published the research paper “Making the Case for Specialist Mental Health Services in Scotland”. SCoD has produced a paper that shows the developments that have been put in place for people with a hearing…
2021 Census: Question on Health Conditions
SCoD has been campaigning to get the health question in the Census changed since 2007. We have beein involved in the consultation on the health conditions question for the 2021 Census. As there is still little accurate data on the…