Provide accessible mental health services for deaf people in Wales.

Rejected 9 signatures

What the petition asks

There are currently little to no accessible mental health services for deaf people in Wales. Most organisations are telephone based & not practical.Accessing secondary mental health care such as crisis teams are also inaccessible. Online & face to face support groups are also hard to participate in.

Many deaf people struggle with isolation and are more vulnerable to abuse. In Wales there is no service that is fully accessible to deaf people & as a result many suffer alone. Crisis charities are predominantly telephone based which is not practical. Primary & secondary care lack accessible therapies and no safe and effective way to communicate to deaf people in distress. Professionals doing Mental health assessments also lack deaf awareness when making a diagnosis.

Why it was rejected

It asked for something that is not the responsibility of the UK Government or Parliament.

Your petition is about something that the Welsh Government is responsible for. That means that the UK Government and Parliament can't look into it.

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Timeline

26 Mar 2023	Petition opened for signatures
28 Mar 2023	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 9

Status Rejected

Rejected 28 Mar 2023

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