Search tagged probation: keep it public and local

Time to stop talking in conferences

"The slogan we are the 99% is the right one," she said. "We are the people who pay our taxes every month through paye, not the 1% of evaders and avoiders recently given another […]

Article on the UNISON National site.

UNISON urges members to lobby their MPs over new ‘gagging law’

New law threatens to gag charities, NGOs, blogs, think-tanks, trade unions and other campaigning organisations by severely restricting how much money they can spend on political campaigning in the year running up to a general election

Article on the UNISON National site.

Privatising probation, what comes first: your safety or their profits?

UNSION believes the government is choosing to ignore all the warning signs and recommendations, continuing to bulldoze an untested path of privatisation for the service, at […]

Article on the UNISON National site.

Probation workers reject government privatisation plans

This involves ‘parking’ difficult cases and only taking on easy wins – an attitude that is particularly worrying for the future of the […]

Article on the UNISON National site.

Fraud probe into G4S ‘a setback for probation privatisation plans’

Serious Fraud Office called in over charges for ‘tagging’ people who were in prison, had left the country or were dead

Article on the UNISON National site.

Survey launched in fight to defend probation service

The probation service in England and Wales works. It's only a small service, with 16,000 staff across 35 local probation trusts, but […]

Article on the UNISON National site.

Privatisation threat continues to hang over police and probation

‘Battles are being won, but the war continues’ to keep police and probation services out of hands of private companies

Article on the UNISON National site.

UNISON to fight government plans to abolish probation service

The Ministry of Justice sets out its plans to radically reform the way in which probation services are delivered in England and Wales with the privatisation of 70% of probation work in 21 new contract areas

Article on the UNISON National site.

Probation sell off will “destroy the service as we know it”

UNISON calls for a “rehabilitation revolution” – not regionalisation or privatisation – in order to keep our communities safe

Article on the UNISON National site.