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Society of Official Metropolitan Interpreters UK Ltd (SOMI UK Ltd) Formed in 2009 to represent Metropolitan Police interpreters. Its purpose is to make representations on behalf of its members, to advocate for their rights and interests, and to liaise and negotiate with work providers and official bodies.
British Sign Language (BSL) is a sign language used in the United Kingdom and is the first or preferred language among the deaf community in the UK. While private correspondence from William Stokoe hinted at a formal name for the language in 1960, [ 3 ] the first usage of the term "British Sign Language" in an academic publication was likely by ...
Clark Denmark is a British activist, lecturer and interpreter. He is deaf and a British Sign Language (BSL) user, and he is widely recognised within the Deaf community for his role in advancing the recognition and wider understanding of BSL.
RAD provides high quality British Sign Language/English Interpreters, Deafblind Interpreters, Lipspeakers, Note-takers and Speech to Text Reporters. There is also an emergency service that is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Known by interpreters and users alike as the National Register, or just ‘the Register’, NRPSI manages the UK's largest register of accredited interpreters. The three-year strategy published by NRPSI in 2016 states that the organisation's ultimate goal is statutory regulation of the public service interpreting profession [ 21 ] which would ...
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On 28 April 2022, the British Sign Language Act 2022 was given royal assent, giving BSL a similar status to Welsh in Wales, Scottish Gaelic in Scotland, and created a duty for the UK government, public bodies and English local authorities to promote the use of BSL, but it did not extend this obligation to devolved matters for Scotland, and Wales.
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