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See the latest from Prvate Eye about language services; click here
Noticed on 17th September 2025 -
Take Action - push the government to deliver on their insourcing promises; click here for more information
“Insourcing delivers better services; better value for money; a better deal for workers and more control over our local economies” -
Read the article headlined ‘UK Lords Call out ‘Appalling’ Treatment of Court Interpreters’ published on Slator
On September 9, 2025, the UK’s Public Services Committee (PSC) held a debate in the House of Lords with Baroness Levitt, Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the Ministry of Justice to discuss court interpreting services -
Read ‘Interpretation, Translation, and Confusion in Refugee Status Determination Procedures’.
Written by Anthony Good, it was originally published in the International Journal for the Semiotics of LawThis article examines the impact on legal processes of the need to use interpreters, drawing examples from refugee status determination procedures in the United Kingdom -
LCN shares insights into accountability and trust for victims with language needs in this report: ‘Access to justice for victims of crime with low proficiency in English: progress, challenges and lessons learned’
LCN’s report into police standards and practice and our learning since its launch shows how this situation can be improved -
Read ‘The vicious circle: how systemic barriers perpetuate maternity interpreting service inadequacies for migrant women in the UK’: click here for more
This is the latest research on interpreting services in maternity care, exploring how ‘vicious circles' of systemic challenges perpetuate health inequities for migrant women, researched and published by Li Li, a NRPSI Registrant -
Read the Grand Committee Debate focusing on Interpreting Services in the Courts (House of Lords Public Services Committee Report): click here for more
Hansard has published the debate in full. It can also be viewed at https://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/ebf91b44-80db-451a-a8e4-42230b034c71 -
Susan Grocott KC, a barrister at Deans Court Chambers and Co-Chair of the Bar Council Legal Services Committee, reports on the realities of interpreting and translation services in the courts; click here for more information
"...the current state of interpreting services ... presents a significant risk to the administration of justice, places undue demand on an already overburdened court system..." -
Marie Goldman MP chairs the Modernisation Committee regarding language accessibility in Parliament. and is actively encouraging public service interpreters who are constituents in Chelmsford to contact her directly about their experiences
Contact marie.goldman.mp@parliament.uk and share your information if you live in Chelmsford -
See your template letter to download (or copy/paste) and send to your MP in the House of Commons
You can easily download and use the template letter/email to ask your MP to support NRPSI’s call for proper recognition for qualified and experienced interpreters in the form of remuneration, terms and conditions that are commensurate with their pro -
See your template letter to download (or copy/paste) and send to the Chair of the House of Lords Public Services Select Committee that conducted the inquiry into court interpreting and translation services
You can easily download and use the template letter/email to lend your support to NRPSI’s call for the Committee “To explicitly recognise NRPSI as the register of public service interpreters for the justice system” -
On 9 September 2025 the House of Lords is due to debate the House of Lords Public Services Committee report ‘Lost in translation? Interpreting services in the courts’; click here for more information
The debate is being held in Grand Committee and will be introduced by the committee’s chair, Baroness Morris of Yardley -
‘7 Common Pitfalls’ article published on LinkedIn; read by clicking here
Sharing valuable thoughts and knowledge, written by NRPSI Registrant, Lachesis Braick, this article is a superb example of how to build your own brand and help your own marketing -
University of Leeds is organising a pre-study focus group discussion on ‘’Challenges of Arabic-English Court Interpreting: A Comparative Analytical Study’’, exploring language-related challenges
Please liaise with Saed Alshareef, PhD Researcher, University of Leeds, School of Languages, Cultures and Societies -
Learn how to no longer be a victim of the late payment culture in the freelance economy and gain hundreds of pounds back each year
The UK government’s new “toughest crackdown on late payments in a generation” has highlighted a long-standing truth: freelancers have been forced to act as unpaid banks and offer free credit lines for their clients for far too long
