The British Sign Language (Scotland) Act 2015 requires the Scottish Ministers and public bodies listed in the Act to publish and consult on a draft of their British Sign Language (BSL) plan. In this context, the Scottish Government launched a written consultation between July and September 2023, seeking stakeholders’ views on the draft British Sign Language (BSL) National Plan 2023-2029. Alma Economics was commissioned by the Scottish Government to analyse the responses to that consultation.

Descriptive analysis was conducted on the closed-format questions, and thematic analysis was used to synthesise themes raised in the open-text questions and during over 40 community consultation events. The findings from our consultation analysis informed the BSL National Plan 2023-2029, published in November 2023.

➥ Our report is available here.