[🔊 Sound on] Today is the premiere of new Bond movie #NoTimeToDie and we've released our own film showing a future where people with visible differences are the hero, love interest or main character - not just the villain. #IAmNotYourVillain Learn more: bit.ly/3udWBBi

October is Down Syndrome Awareness Month! Each day we will be sharing a fact about Down syndrome, and asking you…. ‘Did you know?’ #DownSyndromeAwarenessMonth #DownSyndrome #WouldntChangeAThing

"At the age of 42, I had to prove that I've got cerebral palsy" Youth worker Dominic Hutchins confronts Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg outside the party's conference in Manchester, saying "your party shut my job down" bbc.in/3DbV3eE

Could your business premises help a very worthy cause? @IammeScotland are currently looking for more business premises to be used as part of their Keep Safe initiative. sbrcentre.co.uk/i-am-me-scotla…

Today, South East Edinburgh police launched a multi-agency week of action to raise awareness of behaviours that would qualify as a Hate Crime & will include how to report.

There are approx. 3million disabled people in Ukraine. Reports show they're struggling to access safe shelter or evacuation. Together with SILC colleagues Disability Equality Scotland are calling for the protection of their rights. Read our statement below:

Fantastic work by fantastic people #WeSupportKeepSafe

Today is #KeepSafeAwarenessDay I lodged this motion at recognise @IammeScotland's outreach work to engage with businesses, organisations, local authorities and individuals to provide help and assistance so disabled and vulnerable people can feel safe in their communities.

Happy Deaf Awareness week from us. #deafawareness #genderbasedviolence #deafsurvivors Prof Jemina Napier, PhD, FAHA, FAcSS, FASLI @luccl81 Scottish Women's Aid SafeLives Police Scotland Deaf Links Scottish Women's Rights Centre

Question I'd like all potential Conservative leaders to answer (RT if agree) The energy price cap's predicted to rise 64% in Oct taking a typical bill to £3,244/yr; & rise again in Jan to £500/yr more than when May's help package was announced. What'll u do to avoid this & when?

I would watch 9 seasons of this.

Happy Sign Language Week! Did you know you can contact us using British Sign Language? In an emergency, use 999 BSL ⬇️ 999bsl.co.uk/download/ If it is not an emergency, use Contact Scotland BSL ⬇️ contactscotland-bsl.org

Met the skilled Judy Cook from Grange Academy today! She graciously offered her impressive #BSL skills, soon to be featured in @IammeScotland & Police Scotland's 'My Police, My Community' animation 🎥 Meeting Judy during #SignLanguageWeek made our meeting extra special🏅

Skinner, R. (2023). Would you like some background? Establishing shared rights and duties in video relay service calls to the police. Interpreting and Society, 0(0). journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/27…… SIGNS@HWU (aka Heriot-Watt BSL team) LINCS Heriot-Watt Heriot Watt CTISS SGSAH @TheSIPR Interpreting and Society

New v/blogpost from me, @luccl81, Prof Lorraine Leeson, PhD & Lianne Quigley (Sign Name: Smiley) summarising achievements through our joint funded Royal Society of Edinburgh Royal Irish Academy Scotland-Ireland Bilateral Network Grant - empowering deaf women by training police officers & interpreters in rural areas lifeinlincs.org/?p=3173

Police Scotland Garda Info Deaf Links Irish Deaf Society @luccl81 Lianne Quigley (Sign Name: Smiley) Prof Lorraine Leeson, PhD Royal Society of Edinburgh Royal Irish Academy Heriot-Watt Engage What a productive meeting between Police Scotland Garda Info Trinity College Dublin & Heriot-Watt University & Interesource Group reflecting on our learning from the JUSTISIGNS2 & SILENT HARM projects & discussing the potential for future cross-border collaborations

Police Scotland Garda Info Deaf Links Irish Deaf Society @luccl81 Lianne Quigley (Sign Name: Smiley) Prof Lorraine Leeson, PhD Royal Society of Edinburgh Royal Irish Academy Heriot-Watt Engage Trinity College Dublin Heriot-Watt University Interesource Group JUSTISIGNS2 It’s been a long but worthwhile day. Tired but satisfied that we have pathways to #impact. Thanks to @luccl81 & DC Stephanie Torrance, DC Sarah Winters & PC Stephanie Rose from Police Scotland for your time & enthusiasm

Designed to keep children safe, Police Scotland and @IammeScotland have co-developed a range of educational resources. They also run sessions on corporate parenting and exploitation (incl. CCE and CSE) tinyurl.com/2s4bbrac ✉️ [email protected] for more info

We are looking to spread a bit of Christmas BSL cheer this year. Please repost this far and wide. If your child’s school might be interested in that then please let them see this post. #bsl #bslcheer #festivebsl #LanguageLearning #britishsignlanguage

We held a ‘Meet the Police’ event today in the Scottish Parliament for the Deaf community and #BSL users. A variety of topics were discussed ranging from the role of the police, hate crime, home security and online safety. Click here for more: ow.ly/s51r50QzAPY