‘Abysmal’ first year figures show government’s BSL Act ‘betrayal’

More than half of government departments have ignored new legislation that was supposed to boost the use of British Sign Language (BSL) in their communications, a new report has revealed. The report shows how often each department offered a British Sign Language (BSL) version of government publications and announcements or a BSL interpreter for press conferences in the first year of the new British Sign Language (BSL) Act.