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This will allow the service to start to recover from the incessant and damaging changes it has gone through for more than a decade.  “Probation can and must do better with the […]

Several key motions were passed at UNISON’s police and justice conference on providing security and support to members working in probation

This was the central theme of the union’s contribution to the Westminster Parliament’s inquiry into the […]

UNISON and sister probation unions tell National Probation Service there is no time to waste in safeguarding their Black/BAME members

Unions in England and Wales demand talks with the National Probation Service after it fails to get sign-off from the Treasury

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

Speaking after home secretary Priti Patel said she wanted a tougher regime and would look to produce a new anti-terrorism bill in the spring, national officer Ben Priestley said […]

UNISON will work with the National Probation Service to deliver these changes on behalf of our probation members. However, the depth of the crisis faced by the service means […]

UNISON had called for transfer to be delayed until February while negotiations on terms and conditions continue

Recognising the important role played by national collective bargaining for police staff in England and Wales, for Police Scotland and for CAFCASS – the Children and […]

The union welcomed the government’s admission that former justice secretary Chris Grayling’s privatisation of ‘community […]

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

From Birmingham to Bangor, from Doncaster to Sandwell, UNISON members were winning in May – and their union was growing stronger too

This is the same model of delivery which has already been proposed for Wales and which is already being put into place in […]

Grayling’s botched reforms have finally been abandoned