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The union was giving evidence to Westminster’s justice select committee’s inquiry into the future of the service

UNSION had called for the transfer to be delayed to February next year to allow the talks to be finished. But the […]

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

With the union’s Go for Growth recruitment and retention campaign just finished, breath was baited. Would the figures add […]

Grayling’s botched reforms have finally been abandoned

Probation Alliance, including UNISON, writes to justice secretary David Gauke

Commenting on Her Majesty’s Prisons and Probation Service’s (HMPPS) rescue plan for probation announced today (Friday), UNISON national officer for probation Ben Priestley said: “These lacklustre proposals are half-hearted and ill-thought-out. “Last month the Justice Select Committee laid bare the failings of the government’s probation reforms. This rescue plan is just more of the same. Probation will […]

“It is good to see so many of you, UNISON activists standing together for our members,” he told them. “It is time to end austerity; it is time to end the pay cap. For […]

Police and justice conference debates the changing nature of negotiation

UNISON has today (Tuesday) suspended the industrial action in probation planned for this Thursday in England to restart pay talks with the employer. The action short of strike action has also been suspended.

UNISON members working for the company can expect to receive their pay rise, including any back pay, on 28 March

Union accuses the justice minister of deliberately dismantling the probation service

Government urged to act now, and invest in a proper, proportionate probation workforce

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

Report from Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Probation bears out what the union has said