{"id":3374,"date":"2014-01-03T17:43:23","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T17:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=3374"},"modified":"2014-01-04T12:06:31","modified_gmt":"2014-01-04T12:06:31","slug":"polish-interpreters-still-hard-to-find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=3374","title":{"rendered":"Scarcity of Polish interpreters spreading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago, this blog reported on Capita&#8217;s seeming inability to find an interpreter for Polish &#8211; the third largest foreign born community in Britain after Irish and Indian born people &#8211; for a court case in Essex (<em><a href=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=3355\" title=\"Capita can\u2019t find interpreters for common languages\">posts passim<\/a><\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>This is not an isolated incident and appears to be spreading.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokesentinel.co.uk\/brief\/story-20394944-detail\/story.html\">Stoke Sentinel carries a brief report<\/a> of a 32 year-old man from the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bentilee\">Bentilee<\/a> area of Stoke on Trent whose case has been adjourned until 9th January.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Sentinel&#8217;s report:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A 32-year-old man will appear in court next week accused of beating a woman. Arthur Neckar faces a charge of assaulting Anna Pirtrowska by beating on December 14. Neckar, of Wellfield Road, Bentilee, appeared at North Staffordshire Justice Centre yesterday where his case was adjourned to arrange for a Polish interpreter to attend.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Surely the court&#8217;s time and public money would have been saved had a Polish interpreter been present in court for the initial hearing?<\/p>\n<p><em>Hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkrussian.com\/\">Yelena McCafferty<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago, this blog reported on Capita&#8217;s seeming inability to find an interpreter for Polish &#8211; the third largest foreign born community in Britain after Irish and Indian born people &#8211; for a court case in Essex (posts passim). This is not an isolated incident and appears to be spreading. Today&#8217;s Stoke Sentinel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15],"tags":[31,22,20],"class_list":["post-3374","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\/3374","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=3374"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3385,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3374\/revisions\/3385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}