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Language services for housing providers

Clear Voice helps housing teams communicate clearly and effectively with tenants and residents who may not be proficient in English, via the use of professional interpreting and translation services.
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Helping tenants and housing teams understand each other

Clear and effective communications are central to the delivery of a safe, fair and compliant housing services.

Most housing providers have a significant number of tenants who are not proficient in English. To fully engage with these tenants, it is vital that information is available, and conversations take place, in a language they understand.

Translation and interpreting services help tenants access and understand important information about their homes, while enabling clear communication with landlords and other relevant parties.

For housing providers, these services ensure they can understand and respond to their tenants’ needs effectively, helping to reduce misunderstandings, resolve issues earlier and prevent problems from escalating. This saves cost and builds trust.

Where language support is needed in housing

Language support helps housing providers meet the requirements of Awaab’s Law and the RSH Consumer Standards

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Repairs and maintenance

Help tenants understand issues such as heating, plumbing, damp, mould, leaks, windows, doors or electrical faults.

Complaints
Complaints and resident enquiries

Support meaningful conversations when tenants raise concerns, complaints or questions about housing services.

Support
Housing need and support

Support conversations around homelessness, housing applications, moving home or complex personal circumstances.

Security
Safety and urgent issues

Help residents explain urgent concerns involving security, unsafe conditions, structural problems or welfare risks.

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Tenancy agreements and key documents

Translate important tenancy documents, letters and communications in the tenant’s preferred language.

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Compliance with the Regulator of Social Housing Consumer Standards

The Regulator of Social Housing (RSH) has produced a set of Consumer Standards that outlines how social housing providers, both Local Authorities and Housing Associations, should communicate and engage with their tenants.

The essence of the Standards is that communications should be clear, understandable, and accessible. Translation and interpreting services provide an important way to engage effectively with tenants, and provide a compliant housing service.

You can learn more about the Regulator of Social Housing’s Code of Practice on the UK Government’s website.

Our services

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Telephone Interpreting

On-demand telephone interpreting, available 24/7/365, gives housing teams quick access to professional interpreters during live calls with tenants and residents.

 

It helps both sides communicate clearly when discussing repairs, complaints, tenancy questions and urgent issues - keeping conversations moving and helping resolve issues faster.

 

Telephone Interpreting
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Video Interpreting

Video interpreting supports complex or difficult conversations, where seeing the interpreter and other participants can aid understanding.

 

It can be useful for longer, sensitive or multi-party discussions.

Video Interpreting
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Face-to-Face Interpreting

Face-to-face interpreting can support scheduled appointments, complex conversations or situations where in-person communication is important.

 

It may be suitable for sensitive meetings, formal discussions or support sessions involving several people.

 

Face to Face Interpreting
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Document Translation

Document translation allows housing providers to share important written information in the tenant’s preferred language.

 

This can include tenancy agreements, letters, resident guidance, forms, complaints information and support materials.

 

Document Translation

Why Clear Voice?

Housing providers need language support that is easy to access, reliable and suitable for real resident conversations.

Clear Voice provides professional human interpreters who understand accuracy, neutrality and confidentiality. Their role is to help both sides understand each other clearly.

Our interpreting and translation services help housing teams communicate with tenants and residents when language support is needed.
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Built for housing and public service environments

Housing providers need suppliers that understand quality, access, social value and service reliability.
Clear Voice can support housing teams through:

•    professional human interpreters
•    interpreter quality checks and ongoing reviews
•    document translation for resident communications
•    secure operational processes
•    experience supporting people with limited English proficiency
•    experience working with local authorities and public service organisations
•    social value through our social enterprise model

This makes Clear Voice an excellent fit for housing teams that need language support across resident services, repairs, complaints and documents.

Read more about our social impact here
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Making Worcestershire County Council’s services easier to access

Clear Voice supported Worcestershire County Council with language services to help residents access information and their local services more easily.
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I’ve seen firsthand the benefits of using Clear Voice for our interpreting, translation and transcription needs. The on‑demand telephone service and the professionalism of the team make a real difference for our residents.
Paul Appleyard · Worcestershire County Council
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I’m here to make sure Worcestershire thrives. Clear Voice sources linguists from the county, pays people who live here and gives them meaningful work.
Colin Bates · Worcestershire County Council
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FAQs

Frequently asked questions from the housing sector…

Interpreting helps housing teams communicate with tenants and residents who do not speak English proficiently. It can support all forms of communication and is essential to a mutual understanding. Providers can benefit from that understanding and can plan and schedule actions appropriately, saving cost and time.

Yes. Telephone interpreting can help when a tenant needs to explain an urgent issue, such as broken heating, damp, mould, a leaking roof, security concerns or another issue affecting safety or welfare.

Yes. The regulations require social housing providers to communicate clearly and effectively with tenants, and to ensure that their communications and any associated documentation is accessible and understood. Whilst language support is not specifically mentioned, it is hard to conceive of an alternative mechanism to ensure compliance when dealing with a tenant who lacks proficiency in English.

Yes. Clear Voice can translate tenancy agreements and other documentation to help tenants understand important information about their home, responsibilities and next steps

No. Once your account is set up, staff can quickly and easily access telephone interpreting by phone, using their account PIN  and entering a language code.

Yes, depending on the circumstances. Telephone interpreting is often practical for live calls and urgent conversations. Video or face-to-face interpreting may be better for longer, planned, sensitive or multi-party meetings.

Yes, depending on the circumstances. Telephone interpreting is often practical for live calls and urgent conversations. Video or face-to-face interpreting may be better for longer, planned, sensitive or multi-party meetings.

Not at all. From a user's perspective, it’s simplicity itself. All they need is a phone, your account PIN, and a code for the langue you need. The platform is very straightforward to use. A regards the setup, we take care of that – it only takes only a day or two to arrange. You’ll be assigned an Account Manager who will guide you through the process and train your users on how to engage the service.

Yes. Clear Voice is a social enterprise, with all profits supporting Migrant Help as well as wider initiatives for refugees and vulnerable people. This supports the delivery of social value alongside practical service delivery.

Need language support for tenants or residents?

If your organisation needs interpreting or translation support for tenant communication, repairs, complaints or resident documents, speak to Clear Voice.

We can talk through your needs and help you choose the right service.

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