6 February 2015
[…]
The two failures which had grabbed the headlines – and prompted the review –
were the electronic monitoring contracts with suppliers G4S and Serco, and the
court interpreters contract with Capita.” […]
Staffing
issues relating to the interpreters contract brought “total chaos” to the
courts system, according to the Public Accounts Committee in 2012.
A
year on from the damning report on its procurement contracts, the Ministry of
Justice is getting its house in order, its director of commercial and contract
management, Vincent Godfrey, tells Colin Marrs" "And, although he
admits serious failings with the interpreters’ framework, in mitigation he
pleads: “People neglect the fact that we’ve saved around £12 million a
year." “If you look at a league table of who causes disruption to courts,
interpreters is negligible,” he says. […]
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