Let's Make a New Year's Resolution that Sounds Good!

Too many deaf children are struggling to listen and learn in noisy, echoing school buildings. 

NDCS Cymru wants the Welsh Government to use the new powers it received on New Year's Eve 2011 to strengthen the law on acoustics in new school, college and nursery buildings.

More than half (39) of the Assembly Members (AMs) have now signed up to a special New Year's Resolution in support of good acoustics. This is great news and will help us in taking the campaign forward.

NDCS Cymru would like to say a big thank you to everyone who took part in our online action, encouraging their local AMs to give their support. The following AMs signed the New Year's Resolution:

Lindsay Whittle, Peter Black, Bethan Jenkins, Mark Isherwood, Keith Davies, William Powell, Rebecca Evans, Darren Millar, Paul Davies, Ken Skates, Julie James, Sandy Mewies, Nick Ramsay, Mohammad Asghar, Vaughan Gething, Angela Burns, Byron Davies, Aled Roberts, Rhodri Glyn Thomas, Janet Finch-Saunders, William Graham, Mick Antoniw, Eluned Parrott, Ann Jones, Julie Morgan, Mike Hedges, Russell George, Ieuan Wyn Jones, Jenny Rathbone, Jane Hutt, Joyce Watson, Christine Chapman, Kirsty Williams, Suzy Davies, Mark Drakeford, David Rees, Antoinette Sandbach, David Melding, Llyr Gruffydd.

Our research tells us that the current legal standards on  acoustic standards are often ignored.

NDCS Cymru surveyed local authorities across Wales. Of the 262 buildings identified:

• only 11% had definitely been tested for compliance with acoustic standards
  
• only 31% had involved any input from an acoustic specialist..

Download our campaign report to find out more> (550 kb)

Following calls from NDCS Cymru, the Welsh Government agreed to ensure that all school buildings funded through it's 21st Century Schools Programme from June 2010 would sound good.

This was great news. But it will only affect schools built through this particular programme.

To make sure that all new school, nursery and college buildings in Wales will sound good, we now need the Welsh Government  to use its new powers to change regulations on school acoustics.

Do you want to find out what it is like to be a hearing aid/cochlear implant user in a classroom with poor acoustics?

Listen to our sound simulation >

Ten other oranisations are supporting our campaign.
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Deaf pupils met with AMs to explain how poor acoustics affect them.
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