TWO Gwent councils could work closer together on translating documents into Welsh, including using AI technology.

Councils, and other public bodies, are legally required to produce documents and provide services in Welsh.

Monmouthshire County Council looked at alternatives to its current use of external translators as part of its budget setting process due to increased demand which has seen spending on translations exceed the allocated budget.

Its performance and overview scrutiny committee was told total costs, to the council of providing Welsh language services, was £226,940 last year.

But it wasn’t clear if that figure only covered translations or also the cost of two officers after equalities and Welsh language manager Pennie Walker described the “major costs” as translations and her........

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