{"id":3355,"date":"2013-12-31T14:19:45","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T14:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=3355"},"modified":"2013-12-31T14:25:27","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T14:25:27","slug":"capita-cant-find-interpreters-for-common-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=3355","title":{"rendered":"Capita can’t find interpreters for common languages"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the time of the 2011 Census, there were some 521,000 Polish-born people resident in the UK, making them the third largest foreign born community after Irish and Indian born people in Britain.<\/p>\n

This being so, it’s surprising that Capita T&I cannot find sufficient Polish interpreters to attend court for work.<\/p>\n

Yesterday’s Echo, which covers the Southend on Sea<\/a> and Basildon<\/a> areas, reported that<\/a> the case of a man charged with with a robbery that left a woman seriously hurt in her own home and its adjournment.<\/p>\n

Marcine Stecki, 21, of no fixed abode, is charged with one count of robbery and possessing an offensive weapon after a robbery on 24th July in Leigh<\/a>, Essex. Stecki appeared at Basildon Crown Court on Monday for a plea and case management hearing.<\/p>\n

The reason why this case was adjourned until 13th January was that old favourite: no interpreter available.<\/p>\n

As interpreter Katya Ford remarked on Twitter<\/a> today:<\/p>\n

if Capita regularly fail to provide a Polish interpreter, imagine what it must be like for rarer languages!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Quite!<\/p>\n

Hat tip: RPSI Linguist Lounge<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At the time of the 2011 Census, there were some 521,000 Polish-born people resident in the UK, making them the third largest foreign born community after Irish and Indian born people in Britain. This being so, it’s surprising that Capita T&I cannot find sufficient Polish interpreters to attend court for work. Yesterday’s Echo, which covers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15],"tags":[31,22,20],"class_list":["post-3355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-politics","tag-crapita","tag-language","tag-politics-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3355","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=3355"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3358,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3355\/revisions\/3358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}