More About BSLISScotland

BSLISScotland is an independent company, which is registered as the Sign Language Interpreting Service Limited (SLIS Ltd). Between them, its founding directors have over 40 years experience of delivering and managing BSL/English interpreting services from within the public, voluntary and private sectors. Their aim has been to establish a major independent service and in doing so widen service choice and improve access to communication support for Scotland’s Deaf communities.

BSLISScotland has become one of the best known and respected services in Scotland, delivering communication support each year to hundreds of individual BSL users and hundreds of organisations across all sectors.

Indeed, such has been BSLISScotland’s commitment to quality that in its first year it supported its interpreters to undertake new learning programmes, ensuring that its staff members hold relevant professional qualifications at a higher level than those typically held by interpreters in Scotland. Higher even than the expectation of the registering body for Scotland at the time. BSLISScotland also employs a full-time Quality Standards Officer to: implement its Customer Service Policy; monitor business and staff performance; provide ongoing professional development opportunities; and, put in place measures to routinely obtain and evaluate customer feedback.

BSLISScotland is committed to best practice and continues to seek out new opportunities to make sure that it maintains its position as the leading BSL/English interpreting service in Scotland today.

In our first year, we also sponsored Scottish man Gerry Hughes - a profoundly Deaf Teacher – in his efforts to become the first Deaf person to sail single-handed across the Atlantic to the USA and at the same time compete with hearing people in the single-handed transatlantic race known as the OSTAR . We provided comprehensive administrative support from the early planning stages of his challenge and as you might expect we met all his communication support needs in order to remove the barriers that would otherwise have been around when he negotiated with insurers, equipment suppliers, the coast guard, race organisers and other participants. You may have seen our interpreters at work on TV when Gerry was featured on news programmes covering his amazing story and ultimate success.

Company Registration No. 263519
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VAT Registration No. 839 0296 08
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