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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Craig Paton

Sign language law has brought significant benefits to deaf people – committee

The report was released on Friday (Jane Barlow/PA) - (PA Archive)

A sign language law passed a decade ago has “brought significant benefits” to deaf people, a Holyrood committee has said, but MSPs are “concerned” about a lack of access for young people.

The British Sign Language (Scotland) Act was passed in 2015, mandating the Scottish Government and councils to come up with plans to widen access to the language.

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