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Council's lost in translation

Ailsa Cranna
6/ 3/2008

COUNCIL bosses have defended spending over £216,000 on translation and interpretation services for residents who do not use English as a first language.

In the last 10 months the city have spent £8,300 on mainly phone services, and have match-funded a further £108,000, with Salford Primary Care Trust, to translating documents for ethnic communities.


 

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   rightly said brother
Cool As ICe, www.thatzcool.co.uk
3/04/2008 at 13:18
   If I went to live in Bulgaria, Poland , Romania, India, Pakistan etc etc how much help would I receive?? None I would say.

If you want to be here you need to integrate not isolate, If you provide a hotel room culture for these people they will never be part of society.

Mark in Irlam
MarkinIrlam, Irlam
20/03/2008 at 01:34
   Well said Richard.
had enough, Worsley
13/03/2008 at 11:57
   This is Salford in England. The language we use is English. Not a single penny should be spent of English taxpayers' money on providing translation services for foreigners. Foreigners should learn to read, write and speak English if they wish to live and work in England, or else fund the translation services they need out of their own pocket.
Richard Carvath
6/03/2008 at 16:32
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