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A Sign Language Interpreter has submitted, anonymously, this story for you all to read. Comment is made afterwards.
If I remember rightly, the government recently claimed that ALS had increased its fulfilment rate to around 90%. Where did that figure come from if central records of non-attendances aren't being kept - from ALS itself?
The tribulations of Applied Language Solutions (ALS) are everywhere in the blogosphere these days. It remains to be seen whether the company will hold on to its monopoly of court interpreting services in England and Wales despite its dismal performance to date.
'The Ministry of Justice are receiving daily management information from the contractor concentrating on priority areas of interpreter availability and fulfilment of bookings. I have no plans to place these reports in the Library.'
