Analysis and Comment
What happens when ALS fails to provide an interpreter
'A colleague has received information from a reliable source that when ALS fails to provide an interpreter after a booking was made by a court, it is recorded as a cancellation and ALS charges a cancellation fee'
ALS Fact Check: Almost 70 percent of Courts hit by Interpreter Chaos
'Even if the figures are to be believed (they came from ALS and cannot be verified at the moment), they indicate a severe failure'
Some Twitter Updates on ALS Failures
FWA failures as discussed on Twitter
Controversy over court interpreters contract
'[..]It soon became clear that many of the interpreters we knew and trusted had not signed up to work for ALS. This was because the ‘contract for services’ meant that many of them would be simply unable to work for the money being offered for their services. '
