Search News and Blogs, Jobs, Campaigns, Pages tagged probation

Assistant general secretary Christina McAnea issues rallying call to police and justice conference

Time to return services to public control

She called the system “irredeemably flawed,” adding: “Above all, it has proved well-nigh impossible to reduce probation to a set of contractual requirements. “Professional […]

He was repeatedly warned when Justice Secretary that privatisation would fail. The collapse of these contracts is proof. “Despite the chaos, the Ministry of […]

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

UNISON probation members working for six community rehabilitation companies owned by Sodexo could be balloted on industrial action over the company’s voluntary redundancy terms

UNISON is urging all probation members to take a two-hour strike on 14 July, in support of our campaign for fair pay

Conference passed a key motion on securing development pathways for police staff within the context of […]

Probation can and must do better with the right levels of investment

The police service has quickly adopted the same approach for police officers and police staff, and now UNISON […]

Unions says that for most employees, pay and allowances have only risen by 1% in real terms since 2009

The government’s admission that privatisation of the probation service has failed is welcome, but it doesn’t go far enough

Firm’s collapse another example of catastrophic failures of privatisation

UNISON backs petition launched by We Own It for probation services in England and Wales to be brought back in house

These will finish in December 2020 to be replaced by 10 larger contracts. But Napo, UNISON and GMB said these plans should be dropped and all the contracts brought back into public ownership […]