This is an issue that I feel passionately for and am proud to support.
I stood on a Labour manifesto that pledged to make British Sign Language a fully-recognised language – and one of the implications of that would of course mean it could be taught as a GCSE.
I was very moved to see my friend and colleague Dawn Butler MP, to be the first MP to use BSL to ask a House of Commons question last year, to make the case for a law to protect the language. I also backed Liz Twist MP’s calls in Parliament to make BSL a part of the national curriculum.
The Labour Party are pushing the government hard on this issue, and I will continue to work with Labour colleagues to lobby Nick Gibb MP and the government to recognise BSL as an official language, to make it a part of the national curriculum, and to allow it to be taught as a GCSE subject.
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