Please provide me with the following information for the financial years 2020/2021, 2021/22, 2022/23:
The amount spent by the council on translation, interpretation and language services in all areas of council competence, including: Primary and secondary schools; adult social care services and child social care services; the provision of any social housing for which it has responsibility; libraries; recycling and waste collection; transport; and other area in which such expenditure has been made.
We can confirm the following information:
| 20/21 | 21/22 | 22/23 | ||
| 88978 | Language Line | £8,032 | £6,329 | £7,336 |
| 215980 | Multilingua | £119,040 | £102,138 | £174,485 |
| 181229 | Sign solutions | £16,383 | £20,855 | £37,095 |
| £143,455 | £129,322 | £218,916 |
We should clarify the following points where we do not hold the information:
• If schools/services have used a translation service other than one of the three above we have no way of identifying them and so no way of picking up the costs
• Where services are outsourced (e.g. Libraries) and funded via an overarching contract we have no way of identifying types of spend such as translation or spend with specific suppliers.