{"id":1565,"date":"2013-04-05T13:29:35","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T13:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=1565"},"modified":"2013-04-05T13:29:35","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T13:29:35","slug":"ministry-of-justice-is-not-the-ministry-of-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=1565","title":{"rendered":"Ministry of Justice is not the Ministry of Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting fact emerged today in an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidetime.org\/articleview.asp?a=1462&amp;c=court_translation_services_slammed\">article in Inside Time<\/a> (<em>masthead: the National Newspaper for Prisoners. Ed.<\/em>) about the mess that Capita Translation &amp; Interpreting&#8217;s making of the interpreting contract it has with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justice.gov.uk\/\">Ministry of Justice<\/a> (<em><a href=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=1538\" title=\"New figures show court interpreting service getting worse\">posts passim<\/a><\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>The final paragraph of the Inside Time article mentions last year&#8217;s Civil Service People Survey, according to which just 28% of MoJ staff had confidence in their senior management and only 32% said the department was well managed. Moreover, a mere 18% of staff felt changes to services were for the better and only 23% said that change was well managed.<\/p>\n<p>What was even more surprising to me &#8211; and I hope to any other reasonable person &#8211; was the response of the MoJ&#8217;s spokesperson to these damning verdicts of the Ministry, as follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>These results show that staff are growing in confidence in the leadership and management of change in the department.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What are they putting in the senior management&#8217;s and ministers&#8217; tea at 102 Petty France, London SW1? I think we should be told.<\/p>\n<p><em>Hat tip: Yelena of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkrussian.com\/\">Talk Russian<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting fact emerged today in an article in Inside Time (masthead: the National Newspaper for Prisoners. Ed.) about the mess that Capita Translation &amp; Interpreting&#8217;s making of the interpreting contract it has with the Ministry of Justice (posts passim). The final paragraph of the Inside Time article mentions last year&#8217;s Civil Service People Survey, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17,15],"tags":[16,10,22,20],"class_list":["post-1565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-oddities","category-politics","tag-english-usage","tag-facepalm","tag-language","tag-politics-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1566,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565\/revisions\/1566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}