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Man kept in cells for days as translator unavailable
An asylum seeker who broke into an empty house to find somewhere to sleep was kept in jail for two nights as police tried to find an Arabic translator
New Inquiry: Interpretation and Translation services and the Applied Language Solutions contract
The Justice Select Committee is launching a call for written evidence on the provision of interpretation and translation services since Applied Language Solutions (ALS) began operating as the Ministry of Justice’s sole contractor for language services in February 2012
Stand-in and a beautician act as ALS interpreters in a murder trial
A murder trial should be a serious process with grave responsibility for all taking part. So can an unassessed stand-in and a beautician be used instead of an interpreter?
Outsourcing is not fit for purpose
It is clear that outsourcing provides unacceptable standards of service and higher costs, and is now questionable as a means of managing public services
