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.
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.
Employers walk away from ACAS talks – prompting new strike action on 14 September
NAO report shows failures of privatised probation contracts
It operated contracts covering probation in Wales, Avon and Somerset, and Devon and Cornwall. Those contracts and staff have now been transferred to another […]
“Professional probation work is so much more than simply a series of transactions and, when treated in that way, is distorted and diminished.” She highlighted a number of specific […]
The probation service in England and Wales was split in two in 2014 as part of a programme called “transforming rehabilitation” […]
“We need to make sure we retain all of our rehabilitation members and organise the 50% of staff currently not in any union” after five years of privatisation. At […]