Jen Bird

Surely this has to stop, sign petition please!

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Reflections from Labour Party Conference: For the third year running, Signalise Co-op supported the Labour Party (UK) conference. It was a privilege to work with our brilliant BSL/English… | Jennifer... Reflections from Labour Party Conference: For the third year running, Signalise Co-op supported the Labour Party (UK) conference. It was a privilege to work with our brilliant BSL/English interpreter...

First experience of chatGPT editing out something political...
Wrote a round-up of the Labour Party and included Reform critising DWP for spending so much on interpreters (think return on investment people). Asked for a quick edit and it dropped it! 😲 www.linkedin.com/posts/jenbir...

Mutual and Co-operatives Sector Business Council reception … importance of #coops for the economy, for Places and the aims to double the size of the sector #labourconference @rosemarley.bsky.social

While everyone is getting hyped for the Labour Deputy Leadership

The Co-op Party is holding a by-election for its NEC in England North (NW, NE, Y&H)

I’m delighted to announce I’m standing as someone active our movement I know that Co-op values are only way Labour can defeat reform

Lisa Nandy MP at the diverse communities reception… diversity was part of growing up in the UK and we need to fight for the country we believe in

Diversity reception at #labourconference Baroness Jacqui Smith … other parties do not want equalities but Labour does, it is part of our mission

What an end to #dovasdag2025 #dövasdag in Sweden 🇸🇪 with the supremely talented SignMark 🤩🤩🤩 Tell me someone in the UK has booked him for his final tour in 2026… #deafdayuk anyone? #deaf #signlanguage

Kids are involved in #dovasdag #dovasdag2025 and I can see #deafpride #deafidentity and #signlangage… I imagine there are hearing parents here too mingling and absorbing #deafculture 🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪 this is community 🤩 2/2

THIS is how you do #deaf day #dövasdag #dovasdag2025 exhibition stands, performances, culture, information and debates… and the kids are right there, included and part of the community, art, #deafidentity and #signlanguage 1/2

Onto Stockholm and a busy day on Thursday meeting Sveriges Dovas Riksforbund (Swedish #deaf association) and 2 interpreters… everyone has been so welcoming! The global stories of what we’ve achieved are to be celebrated but even in #sweden so much more to do for #signlanguage and #accessibility

Trump Canceled Millions for Special Education Teacher Training. What's Next? More than $30 million for teacher training and parent resources will no longer flow as scheduled.

My colleagues are losing funding left and right: and its not just research it is to train specialists teachers. It was a quick Friday afternoon dump that got my field on fire, here is a mainstream article

#Disability #DEI #TeacherPreparation #Academia #Blind #LowVision #TSVI #COMS #Braille #Deaf

Chatting to an American couple in Stockholm. He was a pastor and his wife used to sign in church for a 5 year old deaf girl who’d tell her sometimes that she was using the wrong signs… The next sentence was no surprise… the girl came from a #deaf family #languageacquisition

If the NHS is going further down the privatisation route (please no) then this is what we should aspire to… co-operatively owned services that do not take remove money from local economies

I’m in Sweden… just been asked for age verification on Blue Sky and thought this was a great initiative. Turns out it’s in the UK too! bsky.social/about/blog/0... so good being on an ethical platform 🙌

I was in 🇫🇮 for my Churchill Fellowship research project and visited Kuurojen Litto (FAD) and WFD and saw the Finnish Deaf Museum, met some wonderful people. Brilliant to see a whole building dedicated to deaf people, history and interpreter training via Humak. If only we had this in the UK!

Which political parties support public ownership? We Own It have launched a 'Public Ownership Party Scorecard' - ranking each political party on their policies.

Check out this from We Own It.

weownit.org.uk/why-public-o...

Happy United Nations International Day of Sign Languages!

from Finland 🇫🇮 🇫🇮 🇫🇮

@signalisecoop.bsky.social

This is the culmination of 5 years of hard work and commitment by co-op members. So happy our work is recognised! Congrats to all those short-listed 🙌 and looking forward to meeting everyone!

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Visiting family and we’ve got on a train for 11 mins. It’s cost £40 as a family of 4. Just overheard a young family (standing room only for them) saying it would’ve been cheaper for them to drive. #nationalise the trains #privatisationfail @weownit.org.uk

Angela Rayner: Hands off our allotments | We Own It

Love our allotment, the community, getting outdoors and hanging with friends growing veg (and sometimes drinking beer). It is the best thing ever. Connection to the land is more important than ever...
Sign to keep our allotments: weownit.org.uk/act-now/hand...

Recently, I had to interpret for my Auntie. Hospital claimed 2 week wait, didn't know who had contract. She had only six days before passing away. Experiences like this only deepen my frustration with a system that awards contracts to providers who fail #Deaf people #interpreting 4/4

In 2022, @signalisecoop.bsky.social contacted registers and academics to clarify views on family as interpreters, as opinions varied. Most agreed it’s only acceptable if chosen by the Deaf person and the family member is a registered professional. Though some disagreed.

3 of now 4!

Tragic case shows the risks. Unqualified interpreters shouldn't be used. NHS staff need mandatory training on legal duties.

Denying an interpreter for medical consent has been called "abuse" or "assault" as patients may undergo procedures without full understanding, as happened fatally here 2/3

Lost in translation: Research shows health care interpreters are underused Education and training of Australian health practitioners should place greater emphasis on the importance of using professional interpreting services in clinical settings, according to a new book by M...

A woman with leg pain relied on her young daughter to interpret...doctor suspected a serious blood clot, referred... urgency was lost in translation. Care delayed. Two days later, the clot traveled to her lungs and she died. #interpreting (From bit.ly/3GZgt6k) medicalxpress.com/news/2025-07... 1/3

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Non-English speakers cost DWP £2.12 million in translation costs £500,000 has been spent on translation costs so far this year alone

Reform MPs want to cut #Deaf #AccessToWork uk.news.yahoo.com/non-english-...

#AccessToWork keeps #Deaf people in work, wages = ↑ treasury & employs #BSL #interpreters

Compare: Farage's MP salary £91,346 = rarely in his community & earns £1m (www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...)

Who is "scrounging"?

Platforms & fair work principles are baked into the co-operative democratic governance of platforms (voting, member rights, working together) such as bsky.app/profile/sign... I attended a workshop yesterday with some hugely brilliant minds on all things platform co-op. A good read buff.ly/whQflfR