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UNISON, GMB and Napo write to Justice Secretary

The government must immediately step in to bring these collapsed services back in-house

Probation Alliance, including UNISON, writes to justice secretary David Gauke

UNISON’s police and justice sector heard of the many problems caused by privatisation in the justice sector at their national conference.

The Justice Select Committee Report on Transforming Rehabilitation was published in June and UNISON responded on the same day to its findings. The Committee has delivered a damning Report on TR and its detrimental impact on service users, communities and staff. The Report bears out what UNISON has been saying for years, that TR has […]

This is the last chance saloon for the probation service and rescue plans proposed by the MoJ just don’t cut the mustard.

Commenting on Her Majesty’s Prisons and Probation Service’s (HMPPS) rescue plan for probation announced today (Friday), UNISON national officer for probation Ben Priestley said: “These lacklustre proposals are half-hearted and ill-thought-out. “Last month the Justice Select Committee laid bare the failings of the government’s probation reforms. This rescue plan is just more of the same. Probation will […]

Commenting on the report Transforming Rehabilitation published today (Friday) by the Justice Select Committee, UNISON national officer for probation Ben Priestley said: “This shows the government’s probation reforms have failed and must be replaced. “Her Majesty’s Prisons and Probation Service has shown itself to be totally unfit to be in charge. It’s not only failing […]

Probation staff in Wales who work for the National Probation Service (NPS) and the 21 privatised community rehabilitation companies (CRCs), are today (Friday) staging a day of protest to call for a long overdue pay rise. Their unions – Napo and UNISON – say that the 18,000 probation staff have been treated more harshly than other public sector workers, […]

Ministers bailed out the failing privatised companies to the tune of £342m. Yet they can’t find a penny to increase pay for probation staff.

With this dangerous experiment, ministers are gambling with public safety

UNISON general secretary speaks at union’s police and justice service group conference

The National Probation Service has proposed extending the use of private providers in approved premises

Police and justice conference debates the changing nature of negotiation

Uncertain future for Wales Community Rehabilitation Centre staff after plans announced to cut finances by 40%