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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

National officer Ben Priestley also told the committee that the government needs to mend the ‘them and us’ divide that has grown up between community rehabilitation […]

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

UNISON warns that money will need to be provided in this year’s budget and spending review

However, the depth of the crisis faced by the service means that the government needs to step up and significantly increase the funding for the service over the next comprehensive […]

They will be the first to be transferred as the government reorganises the service in England and Wales following its failed privatisation. Other staff in […]

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 […]

Conference prepares for the organising challenge facing the union as government admits error of its ways on probation

UNISON's national officer for probation Ben Priestly commented: "The government's announcement is an admission at last that Chris Grayling’s botched TR reforms have failed […]

“The sooner probation is put back into local control to restore the confidence of staff, service users and the public, the better. The ruin […]

Time to return services to public control

UNISON calls for probation to be brought back into public sector as a reunified and locally run service

Firm’s collapse another example of catastrophic failures of privatisation

NAO report shows failures of privatised probation contracts