Sign Language: Finance

(asked on 7th July 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his policy is on future funding for supporting adult sign readers; and if he will make a statement.


Answered by
Alistair Burt Portrait
Alistair Burt
This question was answered on 14th July 2015

It is the responsibility of local providers and commissioners to make the reasonable adjustments required by the Equality Act 2010 to ensure that disabled people are not placed at a substantial disadvantage compared to non-disabled people.

Arrangements for the provision of sign language interpretation and translation services by National Health Service bodies and NHS service providers are a matter for local determination.

In order to reduce unacceptable variation in the provision of accessible information and communication support to disabled people, including adult sign readers, NHS England published an accessible information standard, SCCI1605, on 3 July. The standard sets out that all organisations providing NHS or adult social care must take steps to ensure that people receive information that they can access and understand, and receive communication support if they need it. Organisations must comply in full with the standard by 31 July 2016.

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