Draft Aberdeenshire British Sign Language (BSL) Plan 2024-30
March 5, 2024 Kincardine and Mearns Area Committee (Committee) Unknown View on council websiteThis summary is generated by AI from the council’s published record and supporting documents. Check the full council record and source link before relying on it.
Summary
...to approve the report on the Draft Aberdeenshire British Sign Language (BSL) Plan 2024-30 and provide comments to the Business Services Committee, including promoting links to community councils, ensuring BSL needs are considered in recruitment, aspiring for BSL to be part of all future policies, raising awareness of the plan via social media, and querying the possibility of teaching BSL in mainstream schools as a qualification.
Full council record
Purpose
This report presents Aberdeenshire's draft BSL
plan for consideration and comment. The draft plan will be
considered by all Area Committees as well as ECS and IJB before BSC
for sign off in April.
Content
Committee agreed the report and provided the
following comments to Business Services Committee:
1.
Promote links to community councils in reference to
‘democratic life’
2.
Ensure BSL needs considered under recruitment
3.
Aspiration that BSL will form part of all policies in future
4.
Raise awareness of the Plan via social media to the wider
Aberdeenshire community
5.
Queried if BSL can be taught in mainstream schools as a
qualification
Supporting Documents
Details
| Outcome | Approve |
| Decision date | 5 Mar 2024 |