Public Service Interpreting: The First Steps

The increasing movement of people between countries in the modern world requires that interpreters and translators take their place, shoulder to shoulder, with members of other professions in the public services such as doctors, lawyers and social woerkers. Interpreters and translators, and others with needed language skills, must therefore earn that place by undertaking what is necessary to become a recognised profession with nationally recognised training, assessments, qualifications and a code of conduct.