12 November 2015
Dear colleague
Our Board is getting ready to meet on 2 November. It will be the last meeting of our current chair, Huw Vaughan Thomas.
The main agenda item is governance arrangements with Signature, which we'll be able to tell you more about soon. When we do, we'll also announce who will be taking Huw's place.
We will soon be publishing the new Code of Conduct and complaints process. As well as videos introducing them to sign language
users, they will be accompanied by a suite of guidance documents.
If you have questions about anything in this newsletter, please don't hesitate to contact us. You can also follow us on Twitter and like our Facebook page.
Kind regards
Kate Price
Registration Service Manager
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The Crown Commercial Service (CCS) has opened its language services framework agreement to tender.
The specification requires suppliers to provide communication and language professionals registered with either NRCPD or SASLI, or equivalent. We are also pleased to note contracts for non-spoken language services will be awarded on a regional basis.
Bids for Lot 4 (non spoken face to face and video language services) will be evaluated on a number of factors. They include a supplier's ability to meet demand and assure the competence of communication and language professionals.
We are therefore encouraged that the CCS is taking public protection seriously and putting the interests of service users first. We hope the contract will be awarded on that basis, and will be watching the process closely.
The Ministry of Justice has launched the pre qualification questionnaire for its second generation contract for language services.
We previously expressed our concern after the Ministry's failure to confirm it will make registration a requirement.
We are still waiting to see the contract specification, which is subject to a confidentiality agreement. However, we have secured the Ministry's agreement to share information about the standards that suppliers will have to meet with respect to communication and language professionals.
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ASLI has published two best practice guidelines, for legal interpreting and video interpreting.
The guidelines outline what ASLI believes interpreters should strive to achieve. They were developed in collaboration with experienced professionals, service users and providers of interpreters, as well as supported by academic research.
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Discipline |
|||||||||
Region |
Electronic Notetaker |
Deafblind Interpreter |
Lipspeaker |
Manual Notetaker |
Sign Language Interpreter |
Sign Language Translator |
Speech to Text Reporter |
Trainee SLI |
Trainee SLT |
East Midlands |
1 |
|
1 |
|
104 |
|
2 |
17 |
|
North West |
1 |
2 |
4 |
1 |
131 |
|
5 |
32 |
|
South East |
3 |
1 |
6 |
3 |
157 |
4 |
2 |
36 |
1 |
North East |
|
|
1 |
|
27 |
1 |
|
2 |
|
South West |
1 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
65 |
|
2 |
24 |
|
Strathclyde |
2 |
3 |
1 |
1 |
26 |
|
|
3 |
|
West Midlands |
1 |
4 |
2 |
4 |
106 |
1 |
|
52 |
|
East of England |
|
3 |
3 |
|
63 |
2 |
7 |
21 |
|
London |
|
1 |
3 |
1 |
94 |
3 |
5 |
19 |
2 |
Central Scotland |
|
|
1 |
|
15 |
|
|
3 |
|
Northern Ireland |
|
|
1 |
|
23 |
|
|
3 |
|
Wales |
|
|
5 |
|
43 |
1 |
2 |
5 |
1 |
Yorkshire & the Humber |
|
|
2 |
|
68 |
|
2 |
13 |
|
Grampian |
|
|
|
|
1 |
|
|
|
|
Highlands & Islands |
|
|
|
|
3 |
|
|
|
|
Lothian & Borders |
|
|
|
|
1 |
|
|
|
|
Tayside |
|
|
|
|
1 |
|
|
|
|
Dumfries & Galloway |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Eire |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
9 |
16 |
31 |
10 |
928 |
12 |
27 |
230 |
4 |