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We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to provide funding through the Health Service, Social Services and Education to support the provision of Free Lipreading for Adults as part of the government programme to "Keep people in their own homes". More details

Submitted by Roger Keeling of Welcome Ear (Hard of Hearing) Association – Deadline to sign up by: 09 December 2008 – Signatures: 402

Petition update, 26 January 2009

You signed a petition asking the Prime Minister to "provide funding through the Health Service, Social Services and Education to support the provision of Free Lipreading for Adults as part of the government programme to "Keep people in their own homes"

The Prime Minister's Office has responded to that petition and you can view it here:

http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page18033


Prime Minister's Office

More details from petition creator

One of the basic needs of older people is to be able to communicate to find out about their needs, with a view to staying independently in their own homes. People with an hearing disability are now having to pay to learn Lipreading which is their main means of Communicating and 60% of those over the age of 60 have a significant hearing loss

Current signatories

Roger Keeling, the Petition Creator, joined by:

  • Abdullah Rhodes-Taylor
  • Mr Partis (petitions.pm.gov.uk/NHS-dentists4all/)
  • CAROL LEONARD
  • Anna Lyford
  • Elizabeth Messer
  • Ginni Petch
  • John Dawson
  • David Johnson
  • Helen Dean
  • Janice Barnett
  • Lynne Tapper
  • K. Halifax
  • Mervyn James
  • Margaret Hogarth
  • Liz Nobbs
  • Vanessa Deacon
  • Robert Anderson
  • Susan Griffiths
  • Pat Hamilton
  • Terry Spruce
  • Joan Keeling
  • Miriam Spruce
  • Rachel Spruce
  • Rev. David H C Good
  • Elaine Webster
  • Dorothy Jane Hogbin
  • Sue Davies
  • Angela Jackson
  • Christine E. Whitehead
  • Julie Ryder
  • Ayesha Gavin
  • betty hartley
  • Mickey Fellowes
  • Elaine Duckworth
  • sheila hinley
  • Alan Corcoran
  • James Rylance
  • Caroline Oliver
  • Dr Jonathan Rylance
  • Nick Rylance
  • ROSEMARY WOLF
  • Harold Myers
  • Roger Warr
  • Raj Sibia
  • Bill Allen
  • Ruth Owen
  • graham mccarthy
  • michael zuniga
  • Gillian Pickford
  • David Burrows
  • Mick Flatley
  • Barbra Keeble
  • Auxilia Malta (petititons.pm.gov.uk/SENCHILDREN/)
  • Cynthia Merrey
  • Margaret Knight
  • Rachel Brown
  • Mary Hall
  • Joy Piper
  • Anthony Saunders
  • Bryan Clark
  • Sue Fry
  • Tony Weeks
  • Trevor Harwood
  • Bethan Porritt
  • Louise Cantwell
  • Graham Maher
  • Judith Garman
  • Bethan Harries
  • Christine Wills
  • Patricia Bowman
  • C E Bowman
  • Clare Walters
  • David Wood
  • Mr. & Mrs. R.J. Banwell
  • david stenton
  • Sally Head
  • Rita Patterson
  • Hans Butler
  • Debbie Bevis
  • Mike Sadde
  • Vera Mckinney
  • Carol Mary Chapman
  • Ruth Calladine
  • Sue Young
  • Rebecca Young
  • Juliette RH Lowther
  • Liz Powell
  • John Cracknell
  • Peter F Gosse
  • Catherine
  • Mr & Mrs L. Beacham
  • Mr & Mrs D Goodwin
  • sonja beacham
  • elspeth L. Harte
  • Maria Oxland
  • Maureen Sheldon
  • byron felstead
  • richard martin
  • JB Peterson
  • S.Marilyn taylor
  • Arthur Styles
  • Debbie Walters
  • John Disdle
  • katie bailey
  • Linda Zack
  • Abigail Greenwood
  • Ruth Myers
  • john kw davies
  • Victor Markham
  • Geoff Brown
  • jenny burdge
  • Ishbel Donkin
  • Richard Byrnes
  • Terence Paget
  • Rosemary Jones
  • sheila savill
  • Mrs Orme
  • Martin Murphy
  • Paul Hanmer, FCA
  • Ginny Kanka
  • Gill Pestell
  • Geoffrey Walter
  • E Hutchings
  • Don Hitchcock
  • Claire-Louise Nobbs
  • David Myers
  • Fiona Pickett
  • J Straughan
  • Norah Clewes
  • Pam Eaves
  • Stephanie Bowyer
  • Tim Clewes
  • Roy Leeming
  • Helen Lowe
  • Sir Roger Sims
  • Alan Eaves
  • June neale
  • christine martin
  • Freda Keenan
  • Anne-Marie Byrne
  • Sarah Hassall
  • William J Holmwood
  • michael theobald
  • Marion Pearson
  • margaret steavenson
  • KATHRYN KNOX
  • Patricia Tester
  • Marian Byrne
  • Anne Darby
  • Johanna Hobbs
  • irene zuniga
  • Anne Orpin
  • anita cooper
  • Tina Wales
  • Elvire Roberts
  • Karen Gowing
  • teresa gardiner
  • Barbara Kersley
  • Maureen Fisher
  • Kathleen Price
  • Alan.M.Roberts. (BEM)
  • Peter Allison
  • Laura Gill
  • Carol A. Carbine
  • 2FLipreading%2F
  • jean entwistle
  • Catherine McDonald
  • sara bond
  • Jackie Hawkins
  • Lorraine Hare
  • Amy Sheppard
  • Ellen Kaye
  • Roland Hilton
  • Melanie Heale
  • Emma Yvonne Paget
  • Brendan Carroll
  • Frances Dewhurst
  • Elizabeth White
  • Gavin Macpherson
  • A M Sturgess
  • Irene Hill
  • Joyce M. McDougald
  • Steve Cobb
  • Frank H Little
  • lucy Sharratt
  • Janet Bowstead
  • Judith Hobbs
  • Jill Newlands
  • Michael Searle
  • Janice Trim
  • Brian Archbold
  • Dr Maureen Cox
  • Sarah Tosh-Robb
  • Phillip Jarman
  • Sarah Knight
  • G D Hadfield
  • LAVINIA BUSBY
  • LAVINIA BUSBY
  • Jack Sandover
  • Sandra Long
  • Gillian Carter
  • A.G.S.Williams
  • Donald Gerrard
  • Heather Gerrard
  • Janet Perkins
  • Ingrid Sellman
  • Jim Smith
  • Muriel Sims
  • beverley ireson
  • Shakeel Khalil
  • Jane Shaw
  • nicola burton
  • Rita Ray
  • Janet Wright
  • Barbara Williams
  • Annie Chishholm
  • Julia Rosalind Lyons
  • Vanessa Roddis
  • mr keith ive
  • John Gravely
  • HAZEL ROBATHAN
  • Ann lewis
  • Liam Crawford
  • PAM GRIMSTONE
  • su reeve
  • BarBara Wearne
  • johanna nicholson
  • Aleander Lawrence
  • Pam Driscoll
  • Jonathan.E.Priestley
  • Jenny Knight
  • T. COLEGATE
  • charlie logan
  • Janet Burton
  • v jackson
  • Judith & David Wainwright
  • Janine Murphy
  • patricia Toy
  • Jennifer Ray
  • Jon Ray
  • Vicki Bishop
  • Simon Ray
  • Gillian Whittley
  • Paula Holbrook-Witt
  • Christine Patrickson
  • catherine littlewood
  • maree kettle
  • david dymock
  • Anne Forbester
  • Alison Duckham
  • Patricia Tout
  • Elizabeth Wayne
  • Michael Hart
  • Mrs H Joy Wallis
  • Revd Margaret Deans
  • Peter Williams
  • Anita Lim
  • Rosemary Wilson
  • VIRGINIA FRANCES DICKSON
  • David Barnett
  • barbara foster
  • Eileen Fell
  • Hilary Macaulay
  • KAREN OVER
  • Shirley and Alan Cowburn
  • Therese Guy
  • Moreton Rhodes
  • Jean Rhodes
  • George W Sharp
  • Bethia Hughes
  • Mary Kirby
  • Julie Scriven
  • Frances Jacobs
  • Mary Cook
  • Margaret Harris
  • Mrs M M Scott
  • Annie Bell
  • David G Wynn-Wilson
  • S Clifford
  • Norman Curnow
  • John Edwards
  • sarah linnell
  • Angela Holdaway
  • Karen Woodall
  • June Lewis
  • Lynda Campbell
  • Heather Smith
  • Dawn Springford
  • gillie jackson
  • Julia Hood
  • Debbie Watson
  • Sarah Smith
  • Dorothy Clarke
  • Christine Gladwin
  • Sandra Long
  • Christine Brown
  • jane papworth
  • Judith Tock
  • Graham Tock
  • corrainewildon
  • Ann Hopkins
  • Frances Ansell
  • catherine Hopkins
  • Lynda Street
  • Margaret Coates
  • Mrs P. Bend
  • julie calow
  • Elaine Oxley
  • andrew eden
  • Eric Morris
  • Jonathan Salas
  • Wilma McCreary MBE
  • Cynthia Higbee
  • J Oneill
  • Anne Edlmann
  • barbara jones
  • John Dutson
  • hazel berry
  • Alex Robinson
  • Jeanette Tunney-Dale
  • Ruth Deighton
  • Christine Davies
  • Bee Henderson
  • Molly Jo Davidson
  • Margaret Green
  • Glenda Lawrence
  • Betty Morris
  • Sallie Eden
  • janet ainsworth
  • Anne Minter
  • Sylvia Offler
  • Robin Vowles
  • Alison France
  • Jean Kendall
  • Lisa Duncan
  • kathryn parkin
  • Jean Hassall
  • Brian Larkin
  • Gordon Waite
  • helen braithwaite
  • Joy Badcock
  • G B Anow
  • Rajeev Bagga
  • Anne Peagam
  • Jackey Weightman
  • carol davis
  • Carole Boyes
  • Veronica Powell
  • Mrs P Howe
  • Doris Peck
  • Susan Heaven
  • martha glover allen
  • Gerald Frank William Warnes
  • Val Foster
  • STAN GOULD
  • chinks grylls
  • Primrose Williams
  • margaret cheesman
  • Anna Cox
  • Christine Steward
  • Xana Allen
  • Elisabeth Miller
  • Stephanie Cox
  • Georgina Healey
  • v hampson
  • Liz Tomlinson
  • Rowena Toon
  • Alan Hall
  • Hayley Smith
  • Helen Graham
  • Sharon Smith
  • michael baskott
  • Sylvia Willingale
  • Joan Broughton
  • debi tabernor
  • Bernard Cannon
  • Julie Round
  • Sharon Underwood
  • sue lynn
  • Frank Holmes
  • Kathie Edwards
  • Alan Hubbard
  • Clive Davidson
  • Frances Dobson
  • Anne Lemon
  • frances cammack
  • Michael J. Rains
  • Nigel McCampling
  • valerie mccampling
  • Will Green
  • Rebekah Darbon
  • Michael Little
  • Jacqueline Human
  • b.westwell
  • Lesley Pinchbeck
  • P Goodchild
  • Nicholas Bailes
  • Susan Riches
  • Rowan Butler
  • s yates
  • Geoffrey May

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