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Capita fined over failure to provide interpreters to family courts
Judgment comes amid mounting concern within the judiciary over delays and extra costs caused by private contractors on court service
Capita still failing to hit interpreter target
Nearly three years after the outsourcing of courtroom interpreting to a single contractor, the service is still falling short of its key performance target, according to the latest government figures
Private Eye: Lip Service
The Ministry of Justice has rejected or deferred most of the recommendations made by the independent assessors it hired to reconsider the calamitous outsourcing of language services in the courts, currently run by Capita
Costs questioned over 5,532 police interpreter requests for help in 75 languages
Police had requests for interpreters able to translate 75 different languages in West Yorkshire during the last year, force statistics have revealed
