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Carolan tells delegates to make sure they take the message out beyond the conference hall to voters

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

Press release: 99% of UNISON members working for the probation service have voted against privatisation

Probation members care too much about the protection of communities to see their jobs sold off to the private sector

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

The government wants to centralise and privatise the probation service – and UNISON needs your help to fight back against this

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

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

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