National Deaf Children’s Society Wins Sensory Award at Self Management Awards 2025

That the Parliament congratulates the National Deaf Children’s Society (NDCS) on winning the Sensory Impairment: Positive Self Management Award at the Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland’s Self Management Awards 2025; understands that NDCS supported Niamdh Braid, a deaf teenager, to set case law in Scotland through winning the right to have British Sign Language interpretation in school, and thus the same access to education as her peers; recognises the importance of inclusive communications in realising the right to education under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child; commends the young person for her resilience and drive through the tribunal process, and further commends NDCS for its role in supporting deaf children to advocate for their human rights.