Daniel Jillings - Rotary Young Citizen Awards 2025

Описание: Since 2018, Daniel Jillings has been actively campaigning for all students, both Deaf and hearing, to have equal opportunity to study British Sign language (BSL), as a GCSE in secondary education.

With the support of his local MP, Peter Aldous, and his mum, Daniel started working with National Deaf Children's Society (NDCS), to raise awareness of the BSL GCSE campaign, which, through the lobbying of Parliament and the launch of a legal challenge made possible by a successful crowd funding campaign, gained huge momentum, resulting in the Department of Education taking the first steps in developing the new BSL GCSE course in 2019.

Daniel’s tireless campaigning has resulted in extensive media coverage and production of an award-winning BBC documentary, recognising his instrumental efforts in achieving success in getting the BSL GCSE planning underway.

Daniel continues to work with NDCS to campaign for more Deaf people to train to become Deaf BSL teachers and he also hopes to see BSL A-level introduced in due course.

Daniel was nominated by Rotary Lowestoft East Point

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