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Kirklees Council won two awards this month (Oct) for British Sign Language videos on the website.
The first one was a Social Care Communication Award from the Association of Social Care Communicators in conjunction with Community Care magazine.
The second one was a Getting the Message Across Award from the National Information Forum, which was announced last Wednesday. The forum promotes and recognises excellence in devising innovative and effective ways to provide information to disadvantaged people.
The awards are for a range of eight web videos containing health and social care information in British Sign Language.
The videos were produced by council services working together including Kirklees Social Services Public Information Team and Services for Deaf People; and the council's Web Development Team. They can be seen by going online to http://www.kirklees.gov.uk/Deaf
People from the Deaf community were consulted about the production of the videos and were asked which topics they would like covering.
When the videos were available online, leaflets about the new service were posted to households in Kirklees, which were listed with Kirklees Social Services, Services for Deaf people, as containing at least one signing Deaf person. They were asked to look at the web videos, from home or a library, and give their views.
Cllr Dennis Hullock, cabinet member for Health and Social Care, said "It's fantastic news for Kirklees Council that we have won these awards, and more important, that the Deaf community have this information available on the Council's Website and in their own language. I hope many Deaf people find the information useful and that is opens the door for more information to be available in British Sign Language on websites."
Cllr Paul Battye, cabinet member for Adminstration and Business, said: "This new online service is just part of the council's commitment to communicating with all sectors of the community in Kirklees to make sure our services are accessible to everyone who needs them."
Meetings were also held in North and South Kirklees to find out in-depth what deaf people thought of the videos and what they wanted to include in future videos.
Kirklees Council won two awards this month (Oct) for British Sign Language videos on the website.
The first one was a Social Care Communication Award from the Association of Social Care Communicators in conjunction with Community Care magazine.
The second one was a Getting the Message Across Award from the National Information Forum, which was announced last Wednesday. The forum promotes and recognises excellence in devising innovative and effective ways to provide information to disadvantaged people.
The awards are for a range of eight web videos containing health and social care information in British Sign Language.
The videos were produced by council services working together including Kirklees Social Services Public Information Team and Services for Deaf People; and the council's Web Development Team. They can be seen by going online to http://www.kirklees.gov.uk/Deaf
People from the Deaf community were consulted about the production of the videos and were asked which topics they would like covering.
When the videos were available online, leaflets about the new service were posted to households in Kirklees, which were listed with Kirklees Social Services, Services for Deaf people, as containing at least one signing Deaf person. They were asked to look at the web videos, from home or a library, and give their views.
Cllr Dennis Hullock, cabinet member for Health and Social Care, said "It's fantastic news for Kirklees Council that we have won these awards, and more important, that the Deaf community have this information available on the Council's Website and in their own language. I hope many Deaf people find the information useful and that is opens the door for more information to be available in British Sign Language on websites."
Cllr Paul Battye, cabinet member for Adminstration and Business, said: "This new online service is just part of the council's commitment to communicating with all sectors of the community in Kirklees to make sure our services are accessible to everyone who needs them."
Meetings were also held in North and South Kirklees to find out in-depth what deaf people thought of the videos and what they wanted to include in future videos.