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'Are these the actions of a competent, accountable government department which is careful to ensure that procurement contracts run smoothly, that taxpayers' money is spent wisely in a sector where the cost of disruption can be huge, and that requests for information are dealt with transparently and promptly?'
After months of failing to send interpreters for court cases (Eyes passim), and having been condemned as "wholly inadequate" by government auditors, Applied Language Solutions has found itself in the dock
Senior procurement officials at the Ministry of Justice did not read a consultants’ report warning of the risks in a £42m contract to provide courtroom interpreters, it emerged at a parliamentary hearing yesterday
'I registered on the ALS portal to work as a court interpreter. The whole process was very easy. The only thing I had to do was to give them a name they could put in their template emails and a telephone number they could call me at.'
