Today, more than 300 different languages are spoken in Britain. In England alone, over 20% of primary school children use English as an additional language.

As our cities and regions become more cosmopolitan, effectively communicating with non-English speaking residents is challenging for councils given their budgetary constraints.

Swindon, with a population of 200,000 citizens, had to be extremely selective when translating documents beyond the necessary medical and legal content due to cost. This led them to work in partnership and develop a council wide, cost effective, translation application.