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Interpreting and Translation Services

Help for non-English speakers

We can provide an interpreter to help you talk to us or other public sector organisations in Newham.

We will provide an interpreter to any Newham resident who is a non-English speaker and needs to talk to someone from the Council, Primary Care Trust or other public service organisation.

All you have to do is arrange this in advance with the organisation you are talking to. Let them know which language you speak and they will book an interpreter for you, who will assist you either in person or over the phone.

You will not have to pay for the interpreter.

We can provide interpreters for over one hundred languages, including:

Albanian Portuguese
Arabic Punjabi
Bengali Russian
British Sign Language Slovak
Czech Somali
Farsi Spanish
French Tamil
Gujarati Turkish
Lithuanian Urdu
Polish Vietnamese


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