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

From Birmingham to Bangor, from Doncaster to Sandwell, UNISON members were winning in May – and their union was growing stronger too

Grayling’s botched reforms have finally been abandoned

It said the changes had failed and MPs were not convinced private firms could ever deliver effective rehabilitation […]

Probation will still be disastrously split as this failed experiment in privatisation continues. “Probation must be put back together, returned to public ownership and this […]

UNISON general secretary speaks at union’s police and justice service group conference

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

“NOMS has a truly terrible record in procurement with a long line of botched privatisations to show for it; to now seek to crudely exclude Probation Trusts from the planned competition […]

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

The government needs to pay the cost of putting right the disastrous probation privatisation – and then to begin investing properly in probation […]

This is the last chance saloon for the probation service and rescue plans proposed by the MoJ just don’t cut the mustard.

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.