Making our services accessible for those with communication requirements

Wolverhampton is a diverse city with a growing population of people from different communities and countries speaking different languages and with communication needs.

The main community languages spoken and used in Wolverhampton are; Arabic, Czech, English, Gujarati, Indian Punjabi, Italian, Kurdish Sorani, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian, Russian and Urdu. This is taken from the Census 2021 and data from our interpretation and translation services.

Word360 is our interpretation and translation service provider. They support with telephone interpreting, video interpreting, face to face interpreting and document translation.

DA Languages is our provider for British Sign Language.

If you need an interpreter or your documents translated to use a council service, please ask the service you are dealing with and they will make arrangements to help you.

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