- Conference
- 2022 Police & Justice Service Group Conference
- Date
- 27 June 2022
- Decision
- Carried
Conference, reunification into one Probation Service was a triumph for the trade unions and proof that privatisation has no place in the work that we do. Probation staff in both the privatised and public parts of the organisation absorbed the huge amounts of turmoil and change whilst striving to continue delivering the service to our communities.
Reunification has been a welcome move but it has not been without it’s problems and we are still working through the impact of another huge programme of change.
Conference, Probation staff are tired. We are overworked and we are underpaid. We need a period of reflection and pause to assess where we are now and how we can function in the context of the staffing crisis that we are experiencing.
We want the organisation to stop trying to introduce policy after policy, initiative after initiative change after change after change.
Conference, we are clear as to what our role is, we work to protect the public, to engender positive change in the people we supervise, to make our communities safer. We need an opportunity to JUST do this.
We call on the SGE to work with the employer to hold back on the rate of change, to work within our existing policies and procedures and to give time for the new service to settle and for the service to provide some consistency for staff and People on Probation