Summary of consultation responses

Annexe B – Respondents, alphabetical order

Organisations

Aberdeenshire Council Sensory Support Service	29
ACPOS (Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland)	43
Action Deafness	24
Action on Hearing Loss	5
Angus Council	14
British Deaf Association (Scotland)	10
Caithness Deaf Care	25
Capability Scotland	28
Church of Scotland	42
Deaf Action	22
Deaf Connections	34
Deaf Ex-Mainstreamers Group (DEX)	36
Deaf Services Lanarkshire	33
Deafblind Scotland	23
Donaldson’s School	20
Dumfries & Galloway Society for the Deaf	44
East Lothian Council	11
East Renfrewshire Council (Corporate Equality Unit)	12
Glasgow City Council	41
Hayfield Support Services with Deaf People	21
Hearing Dogs for Deaf People	17
Hearing Link (Scotland) – (confidential/not for publication)	48
Inclusion Scotland	35
Inverclyde Council (Community Health and Care Partnership)	16
Midlothian Council	39
Moray Council	49
National Association of Tertiary Education for Deaf people (NATED)	1
National Deaf Children’s Society (NDCS)	6
NHS Ayrshire and Arran	8
NHS Education for Scotland (NES)	15
NHS Grampian and NHS Orkney	4
North East Sensory Services	9
Orkney Equality Forum	27
Renfrewshire Council	26
Scotland’s Commissioner for Children and Young People (SCCYP)	3
Scottish Advisory Group on Deafblindness	13
Scottish Association of Sign Language Interpreters	19
Scottish Borders Council	38
Scottish Council on Deafness	2
Scottish Independent Advocacy Alliance (SIAA)	40
Scottish Youth Parliament	37
Self Directed Support Scotland (SDSS)	18
Sense Scotland	7
Signature Scotland	45
South Lanarkshire Council	47
STUC	46
Tayside Deaf Hub (Deaf Links)	32
Tayside Deaf Hub (Dundee Deaf Sports and Social Club)	30
Tayside Deaf Hub (Tayside Deaf Forum)	31

Individual Respondents

Amey, Rachel	17
Apps, Abigail	91
Bain, Anne	93
Begg, Juliette K	75
Belmonte, Paul	66
Bogan, Pamela	72
Boyd, Lesley	7
Bradshaw, Margaret	48
Brown, Barbara A	11
Butler, Stephen J	39
Byrne, Judy	131
Caldwell, Jude	15
Cameron, Dr Audrey M	125
Cameron, Iain	9
Carnegie, Martha	118
Cheskin, Amy	110
Church, Jamie	112
Church, Karalyn	101
Clark, Kay	73
Cochrane, Niamh	50
Crabb, Simon	103
Crockart , Mike MP	133
Currie, Caroline	4
Currie, Margo C M	63
David, Mike and Morag	132
Davidson, Lisa	80
Dawson, Audrey	58
Dawson, Rodney	59
Denerley, John	70
Dickson, Shaurna	128
Doering, Sally	21
Douglas, Shelagh	35
Drew, Alan	77
Duncan, Linda	45
Duncan, Robert M	126
Ellerington, Scott	32
Elliot, Marie	3
Evans, Rachel	60
Ferguson, Grant	121
Finestone, Catherine	86
Fletcher, Marion	25
Foley, Edward	94
Forrest, Joan	68
Forry, Anthony J	88
Frew, Suzanne Victoria	108
Gibson, Susan	123
Grant, Ross	83
Handsley, Anne	69
Hay, John A	38
Hay, Peter S	71
Herd, Evonne	64
Hutchinson, Tess	54
Imran, Maryam	29
Innes, Dr Deborah	92
Irvine, Andy	10
Johnston, David and Jennifer	22
Kearney, Hilary	113
Kelly, Alastair	74
King, Lesley	84
Kinsman, Margaret	76
Krupova, Nadia	2
Kydd, Margaret	100
Langlands, Kaz	37
Leith, Ella	95
Lennon, Silvana	33
Li, Lisa	16
Lightbody, Denise	62
Lironi, Joanne	109
Lochrin, Irene	111
Lomas, Sara	56
Lomas, Soumaya	31
Mackay, Brenda	12
MacQueen, Mark	87
Mair, Doreen	79
Mapson, Rachel	47
Marchbank, Carla	102
Martin, Helen	46
Matthews, Ben	67
McCann, Brian	82
McColl, Hilary	115
McCormack, Maire	97
McCormack, Matteo Cerri	98
McCusker, Janice	23
McCusker, Paul	43
McDevitt, Mary	104
McInally, Nicola	24
McNae, Lorna	89
McTaggart, Colin	13
Mellis, Leonard	61
Mooney, Helen	27
Morgan, Danielle	53
Mowat, Sue	30
Moyse, Margaret	44
Mullin, Neil	120
Neilson, Carrie	119
O’Neill, Rachel	117
Padden, Tessa	5
Pell, Alison	105
Pollitt, Kyra	51
Richards, Donald M	127
Richards, J	65
Richards, Linda	114
Rogers, Jacqueline	106
Rojas, Samuel	57
Rosie, Hamish	107
Russell, Rebecca	20
Shannan, Brian	99
Sharif, Tasnim	14
Shaw, Evelyn	78
Sheridan, Joseph	124
Stewart, Fiona	8
Stewart, Laura	34
Stewart, Vincent	40
Sugden, Janis	90
Thompson, David	1
Todd, Derek	28
Tulloch, Erelund	26
Turner, Graham H	85
Veitch, Gordon B	6
Verney, Arthur	41
Waugh, M Anne	42
Wheatley, Mark	18
Whitfield, John	36
Wilson, Charlotte	81
Wilson, David	55
Wilson, Irene	19
Wood, Gill	49
Wright, Shirley	52
Wylie-Black, Ben Newton	116
Young, L K	122
Young, Nicola	129
Young, Tamara	130
Anonymous	96

Sign And Be Heard – (containing 39 individual anonymous responses) 134

The member also received a petition with 937 signatories.

1 Responses from organisations 30 – 32 were identical, but have been logged separately as they were submitted by different sub-groups from within a larger organisation.

2 The 39 submissions from SABH have been treated as individual responses.

3 The petition has been treated as one submission and its terms were as follows: “We, the undersigned, support the general aim of the Proposed BSL Bill (Scotland) because we would like to see the aim extended to include the cultural aspects of BSL and the Deaf Community in a similar way to that of Gaelic. We would also like the aim to be extended to include a better awareness not only of the language among the hearing population, but also an awareness of the rich culture and history of the Deaf Community in Scotland. We would want to see a firm commitment in the Bill to include Deaf people as advisers to the Scottish Government so that they are at the heart of the Bill as it is their language. There should be a BSL Board like Gaelic speakers have and the Board should have a majority of Deaf BSL users on it. The legislation should be designed to promote the use of BSL, secure the status of the language and ensure its long-term future.”

4 The terms of the 76 responses included the following wording: “I support the general aim of the proposed Bill, but would like to see the aim extended to include a better awareness not only of the language among the hearing population, but also an awareness of the rich culture and history of the Deaf Community in Scotland. I want to see a firm commitment in the Bill to include Deaf people as advisers to the Scottish Government so that they are at the heart of the Bill as it is their language. I want there to be a BSL Board like Gaelic speakers have and I want the Board to have a majority of Deaf BSL users on it.”

5 http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/S1_Bills/Gaelic%20Language%20(Scotland)%20Bill/b69s1en.pdf