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Media Reports Chaos: Interpreters, Make Your Stand
In a previous post there was a description of the sheer number of spoken language organisations and campaigns and the resulting lack of unity. What is impressive now is the amount of interpreters...
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MoJ Interpreting Contract: Parliamentary Questions Update
Parliamentary questions that were being asked by the MP Andy Slaughter were published on a few forums this week. The answers by Minister Crispin Blunt were sent around today and are published below....
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Police Procurement: Obtaining Less Value for Money for Interpreting Services
The deadline for the Home Office consultation is today. It is entitled Obtaining Better Value for Money from Police Procurement. This is the second consultation following on from the first which closed...
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Interpreters: Undervalued, Under-respected and Under-employed
There are many reasons as to why I started this blog. Mostly it is because in the face of a changing market I felt interpreting had become undervalued. The profession was changing as a result and was...
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Unqualified ‘Signer’ used in Court
It is generally accepted that interpreting provision for the courts has been rather less than efficient over the last three months. It has borne a frightening situation and now an alleged breach of the...
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When we resign ourselves to acceptance, do we desensitise ourselves to what...
Have Interpreters resigned themselves to accept and even expect that level of access provided to the Deaf community, that they have trained to serve, to be as poor as it is in this current day? I am...
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Interpreting by Numbers
Some interesting stats: 1000 Sign Language Interpreters on the NRCPD register (I include Trainee Interpreters who are not registered as such). 400 who could register but don’t, a guesstimate. 250 on...
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BBC: See Hear Interpreting Special
In the face of growing threat to the Sign Language Interpreting profession in the UK and the lack of access Deaf people are experiencing in the light of budget cuts, the BBC’s Deaf community...
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CSWs – Register your Disinterest for proper Deaf access
We have an established register for interpreters, the NRCPD. Though not everyone has faith in that register. I would suggest that is partly due to interpreters regularly accepting work for which they...
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BSL Presentation on Interpreters: A Change of Contract or a Change of Heart
A big thank you to Paul Neal of Neal Communications Agency (NCA) for making this video. It is a completely accurate description, in BSL (transcript in English available), of what is currently happening...
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Yellow Fever: Causing Confusion over Registered Interpreters
Sign Language Interpreters in the UK are regulated by the NRCPD. The main, and only for most, professional membership association is ASLI. The differences are clear cut. One regulates: provides a...
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PSA accreditation: It has nothing to do with the medical model
The NRCPD has sought answers from the Professional Standards Authority (PSA) as to whether they could apply as a voluntary register to be accredited. We still have no clear answer but is this really a...
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NRCPD Statutory Regulation Survey
The NRCPD have sent out a survey to communication professionals to assess their thoughts on statutory regulation. The deadline is Friday 11th July. My answers are below. If anyone has any comments...
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Are Statutory Regulation and CPD cure-alls for the ills in interpreting?
Roger Beeson NRCPD Registered BSL/English Interpreter (since 1988) Roger Beeson is a self-employed interpreter based in London. He was a founding member of ASLI and has held various offices, including...
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