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MoJ ditches new court interpreting system in face of major backlash

I fully agree that the procurement department should be investigated to find out how this contract could have been awarded to a company with such an appalling track record. It seems that the civil servants just looked at the value of the contract and nothing else. You simply cannot replace 2300 professional interpreters with unqualified people and expect the contract to work. What next? Outsourcing the provision of surgeons to ALS and expecting to replace them with cleaners on a minimum wage!?! That would cut the health service bill, but at what cost? The rates offered by ALS are so low that even the unqualified non-English speaking persons turning up in our courts cannot afford to work for them. What a mess.

23-Feb-2012

5:10 pm