The austerity measures of the government has meant that the college has had a funding reduction in its work with adults of 24% which equates to £3.7M for Telford College. Due to this reduction in funding, it is likely that the BSL courses will be discontinued. This will only have a negative affect on the local deaf community, less people learning BSL means less people training to be interpreters, it means less people are deaf AWARE.

The BSL courses run at TCAT not only teaches the basics of sign language, it gives an opportunity to learn about the deaf world and an insight in to deaf culture.

Please help keep BSL at TCAT, show your support by signing this petition.