When a health watchdog body warns that their performance will be affected by the cost of having to translate all their documents into Welsh, then it’s time for politicians to intervene – or at least have the bottle to say something.
Carol Davies, Director for Wales' Community Health Councils (CHCs) has described requirements for translating even internal documents into Welsh as "unrealistic". She added that the cost of compliance will result in an inability to effectively monitor the work of the NHS in Wales.
The Welsh Language Board state they are “unable to respond” citing their code of practice that drafting and agreeing on a bilingual policy is “a private and confidential matter between the board and individual bodies.”
That is all very laudable in theory but given that it is the public which ends paying the operating costs for both organisations in this instance then a little more transparency is warranted. It’s significant that none of our AMs has said something similar – so far.
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