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This petition is now closed, as its deadline has passed.
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Ask local libraries to not discriminate against their visually impaired readers, especially children. More details
Submitted by Lynsey Scott of PVIC support group – Deadline to sign up by: 16 April 2008 – Signatures: 214
Petition update, 04 June 2008
You signed a petition asking the Prime Minister to "Ask local libraries to not discriminate against their visually impaired readers, especially children."The Prime Minister's Office has responded to that petition and you can view it here:
http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page15654.asp
Prime Minister's Office
More details from petition creator
As a parent of a registered blind child who has to continuously battle with the local library, I would like all libraries to have to label all childrens large print books and put them together in a well labelled section. This is often done for adult LP books, but not childrens books. I would also like them to purchase and make available much larger print books for young readers in a print size or approx 36 pt.
I would also like there to be accessible computers for low vision and blind people and for these to be available in the childrens sections of bigger libraries also.
I would also like to see CCTV equipment and text to speech readers in all libraries, as the large print books available in libraries are not nearly large enough for children I know and they need further magnification to read these books and any others.
I would like to see libraries consider that blind children may attend their story sessions and offer tactile experiences such as 'bag books' and to be more aware of how to include VI children in national library reading schemes.
I would also like local libraries to fund RNIB talking books for their VI readers.
Current signatories
Lynsey Scott, the Petition Creator, joined by:
- Andrew Constantine, English Democrats
- Sarah Pock
- Jean Thompson
- Jane Renton
- Julie Feighan
- Roberta Donaldson
- Manda Stenson
- Emmanuele Higgins
- Gareth Wait
- Deborah Hall
- Beverley Jacobson
- Carole Butler
- lucy hall
- Paul Scott
- sidney hall
- W. Drake
- Laura Hughes
- cerez doyle
- Kiera Bentley
- Cheryl Marley
- lorna murray
- Phyllis Styles
- Hazel Shaw
- ruth gavra
- Sally Appleyard
- D Rock
- Bridgid Weaver
- sandra laver
- Mr T L J Daniels
- Carole Bennett
- Alison Collins
- Alan Western
- Sue Carter
- Claire Mason
- Suzanna Plummer
- Wendy Thompson
- Michael Longlands
- karen Helsby
- Claire Nicholson
- Yan Overfield
- Shane Murray
- Nina Boys
- paul white
- VIlibraryaccess
- Louise Ingham
- John Hind
- Sylvia Wensley
- Philippa Taylor
- Cath Tyrie
- siobhan worsnop
- Brendan Burns
- Brigitte Kemish
- Ann Owens
- Alison Collins
- muriel stretton
- patricia watson
- Jeremy Bowen
- Dawn Mines
- Caroline Brunt
- ronnie chikwama
- Zahida Khan
- Rebecca Thurgur
- Gill Rourke
- Natalie Thompson
- Derek Sarath
- Gill Ping
- Paula Page
- Heather Wilkinson
- Wendy Sharpe
- Clare Gailans
- Clare Crawford
- Jean Henderson
- Sarah Crabb
- Helen Watts
- Carol Spencer
- Leon Lloyd
- Tom Clark
- Rachel Skelton
- Colin Elliott
- Sarah Thomas
- Julie Breedon
- Pat Crook
- Emma Laycock
- Nicola Hickinbottom
- Liz Farrell
- Jane Hawthorn
- Helen Steward
- John Maher
- Elizabeth Illingworth
- Ann Bell
- Tim Powell
- Mrs Pat Jarvis
- Melanie Anderson-Pike
- Roger Cornwell
- Andrew Edgington
- Heather Tucker
- Christina Price Jones
- Claire Kerfoot
- Audrey davies
- Jayne Webb
- Mark Austen
- Michael P Wootton
- Lindsey Harland
- Angèle Thompson
- Dawn Voellner
- Eileen Willis
- Yvonne Holt
- M L Cowhie
- Melanie Byford
- Angela Nicholls
- Jack Palmer
- Yvonne Dolan
- Paul Thompson
- ann rice
- Linda Davidson
- Elizabeth Baker
- Margaret Brown
- Elizabeth Mary Stace
- Elaine Kenealy
- Jill harty
- Sophie Playford
- james thomas
- Ann-Marie Cross
- Darren Simon
- Marie Logush
- Mrs. B. Chauhan
- lynda.rowe
- Sheila Morris
- saliha
- Yvette Raikes
- Daniel Gray
- Lerryn Gray
- Tina Panton
- jackie donegan
- Bronwyn Large
- Anela Naz
- Vikki Marriott
- Julie Barkley
- Mr D K Parmar
- Eileen Carpenter
- Helena Williams
- Tim Fawcett
- Daniel Gallimore
- Anna Brewer
- mandy macfarlane
- Claire Wilson
- leanne mowlem
- jenifer walters
- Sheila Seabourne
- Pauline Palfreyman
- Annaliese Stanton, New College Worcester
- Sandra Sutherland
- Susan Walker
- Andy Jordan
- gloria Joy
- Caroline Hallett
- Lauren Easter
- Dave Kay
- carol snelgrove
- sara riggs
- Robert Young
- Diana Garrett
- Mike Holroyd
- laura bassett
- Sofie
- Ian Duncan
- Patrick Duffy
- Johanna Pellatt
- Maire Stafford
- Dr J M Stonehouse
- Christopher Jones
- Yvonne Smith
- Amrat Chauhan
- Nathan Hazlehurst
- Angela Claisse
- kevin selwood
- Susan Hogg
- David Liley
- S Purchase
- SAMANTHA OSMAN
- Sian Child
- Linda Barnes
- Stuart Purchase
- Mike Crisp
- Caroline Baxter
- Caroline bowman
- Rebecca Russell
- Jane Watson
- Caroline Findlay
- Lara Green
- philip crouch.co.uk
- Phil Lee
- aisling cooper
- Hazel Groves
- david mcmullan
- Tracy Wilson
- Neana Lawson
- caroline dutton
- Gillian Pruden
- ffion wyn davies
- E Sanders
- Richard Boughey
- catherine hart
- J A S White
- John White
- adam bissell
- jack moffat
- Lisa Morris
- The Libraries budget is so tight that they have little funding for this.
- Tony McDonough
- Anne-Marie Akinwande
- Kathy Williams
- sarah malyon
