Language Provision in the Scottish Public Sector: Recommendations to Promote Inclusive Practice
Abstract: Public service providers in Scotland have developed language support, largely in the form of interpreting and translation, to meet the linguistic needs of those who cannot access their services in English. Five core public sector services were selected for inclusion in a research project that focused on the aforementioned language provision and related equality issues: the Scottish Courts and Tribunal Service, NHS Lothian, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, the City of Edinburgh Council and Glasgow City Council. The frameworks within which these public service providers operate - namely, the obligations derived from supranational and domestic legal and policy instruments - were analysed, as was the considerable body of standards and strategy documents that has been produced, by both national organisations and local service providers, in order to guide service delivery. Although UK equalities legislation has largely overlooked allochthonous languages and their speakers, this research fo
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
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Englisch
- Anmerkungen
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Veröffentlichungsversion
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: Social Inclusion ; 9 (2021) 1 ; 45-55
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Veröffentlichung
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Mannheim
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SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
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2021
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McKelvey, Róisín
- DOI
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10.17645/si.v9i1.3549
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urn:nbn:de:101:1-2023010307544059623616
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Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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25.03.2025, 13:46 MEZ
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Beteiligte
- McKelvey, Róisín
- SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
Entstanden
- 2021
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