Just 1 translator costs £90 hour.
Really every one?
And is that for all qualified translators or is it for one specific language from one supplier doing highly technical translation?
Translators can vary massively in cost, depending on things like the languages spoken, where you are in the country, the complexity of the translation (someone able to do complex medical, legal, or technical terms costs more than a general one), one on a long term contract tends to cost a lot less than a short term or hourly contract (like most things) and of course pretty much every teacher of a second language is technically a translator and I can't remember the last time I saw a normal school teacher getting £90 an hour.
It's one of the reasons hiring bi or multilingual staff is a big thing in many countries especially parts of Europe where they have to cope with hordes of English who can't speak the language even if they've been living there for a decade or two.
I'm guessing the £90 an hour rate is for short notice emergency translators out of business hours, or for contract translators at the high end doing extremely technical work, and that most schools with children who are not native English speakers will probably try and employ staff who speak more than just English as a general thing, or be using translators on a long term contact at far less (such as bi-lingual classroom assistants).
in which case, it's probably on a par with an emergency substitute teacher or agency nurse rather than being "normal".
In fact a google suggests the average hourly wage for a translator starts at about ~£15 which is quite a long way below £90 and not far above minimum wage, whilst the average NHS interpreter gets a wage of ~£22k (below average wage) and according to Exetor university experienced translators may make more than £30k a year!
Meanwhile the government's own guidance for freelance interpreters is that they get paid £48 for the first hour then £16 an hour after that, in fact the only place I can find anything close to £90 an hour for government work is for freelance interpreters on a weekend when the government states it's £72 for the first hour, and I'm not sure how many schools are open on a weekend, I suspect not many.
So I'm a little dubious of the idea that having a translator in a school costs anything like £90 an hour on a regular basis.
Note I'm using interpreter and translator interchangeably in my post, as anyone who can do one can do the other to a degree (technically they are different specialisations), and you've not made it clear if you're talking about the written word or spoken, but I'm guessing very few schools will be using the written word specialists very often
