Deaf campaigner launches fresh legal challenge against government
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Covid: Deaf campaigner takes legal action over No 10 briefings
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in england last year, but deaf people say it s a wider issue. they point to other nations like scotland and wales, who have had british sign language in person interpreters at covid briefings. lynn stewart taylor started the where s the interpreter? campaign after she no idea what had been said in the first covid briefing and was inundated with messages from deaf people, asking for help. lots and lots of other countries have managed to get the interpreter in the same room and it s just accepted, it s accepted that members of the deaf community get the information at the same time as the hearing members of the community. we seem to be the only country that haven t been able to make that happen and we feel very separated and segregated. we don t feel accepted and we don t feel our language is respected and recognised. it s almost as if we don t exist. the government says it s committed