Rejected petition It is time to teach British Sign Language (BSL) in UK schools.

There are more than 900,000 people - 45,000 of them children - in the UK. Only about 151,000 people can "speak" BSL and 87,000 of these are deaf. Deaf people have a human right to be able to communicate. It is not a difficult lanuage to learn and should be widely taught in the UK

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Source: Action on Hearing Loss (formerly the RNID)

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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/178095

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Date submitted 28 March 2017
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