Communications Review Update
UKCoD write to Ed Vaizey MP, Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), welcoming recent commitment to explore the improvement of broadcast access services for people with sensory loss in the Communications Green Paper. Letter to Ed Vaisey MP
Read MoreNew Disability Strategy
A joint APPGs meeting on the new Disability Strategy was held on 12th June. The final document on Disability Strategy will be published in the New Year. Minutes of the Meeting, 12 June 2012 – Disasbility Strategy
Read MoreThe Rt Hon Sir Malcolm Bruce
Sir Malcolm Bruce receives knighthood for public and political services in The Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2012
Read More“Don’t Leave Me Out!”
A new international media campaign has just been launched to raise awareness of captioning/STT in theatres and elsewhere, led by an American organisation called Collaborative for Communication Access via Captioning (CCAC)
Read MoreRelay Services
UKCoD writes to BT, MGB and UKCTA in response to their reply to signatories to the open letter published in the Times. The letter reads…
Read MoreRelay Services – Ofcom response
Ofcom have today published Review of Relay Services: Further Consultation. The Closing date for responses is 13 July 2012.
Read MoreRelay Services
Following the open letter in the Times, representatives from the sector are being copied into a reply from BT, UK Competitive Telecommunications Association and the Mobile Broadband Group, with it they included a letter sent to the Minister last November, initial reactions range from disbelief in the telecoms companies misunderstanding of deaf peoples needs to […]
Read MoreEuropean News
Many of you will hear good and bad things about European Union, especially with economic crisis in Greece and Eurozone problems. In the UK
Read More'Deaf People can Travel'
Durham, 19 May 2012, Jim Edwards ,Chair of UKCoD attended National Association of Deafened People AGM and Conference held at the
Read MoreParliamentary Report – April
Please see below April Parliamentary Reports: 27 April 2012 20 April 2012 To view previous reports
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