Its objective is to provide a high-quality, impartial and professional language support to organisations and agencies who have clients with limited command of English language.  By doing so Language Point facilitates the clients' equal access to public services.

Interpretation and translation services are delivered by a pool of sessional workforce.  All staff undergo a strict selection procedure and we are trained to work effectively in a wide range of public sector organisations.  Their development is continuous and needs-based.  Professionals are encouraged to take part in the identification, design and delivery of our training modules.

Language Point require a simple and user-friendly procedure to be followed when booking an interpreter or a translator.  This procedure is explained in the  Guidelines. (368kb)A charge will be made for this service.

Language Point is recruiting sessional interpreters and translators on an on-going basis.  We currently have the following vacancies:

Interpreters in: Pushtu, Kurdish Sorani, Amharic, Tigrinya, French, Mandarin, Czech, Farsi, Polish, Portugese, Russian, Urdu and Japanese.

Translators in: Portugese, Kurdish SOrani, Punjabi, Bengali, Arabic, Pushtu, Hindi, Polish, Amharic, Tigrinya and Russian.

If you are interested in these vacancies, wish to receive the application pack or discuss them in more detail, please telephone Karen on 0191 566 1750 or email languagepoint@ssd.sunderland.gov.uk 

Language Point publicises information about its performance through Annual Reports.

Annual Report 2005-2006 (69kb)

Annual Report 2004-2005 (100kb)

Interpreting Request Form (10364kb)

Multiple Interpreting Request Form (371kb)

Monitoring of Interpreting Services (370kb)

Translation Request Form (374kb)

Monitoring of Translation Services (372kb)

For any additional information, comments or feedback you can contact the Co-ordinator of Language:-

Language Point
Social Services
Cassaton House
43-49 Fawcett Street
Sunderland 
SR1 1RR

Telephone: 0191 5661750
Fax:  0191 5661751
e-mail languagepoint@ssd.sunderland.gov.uk