UNISON had called for transfer to be delayed until February while negotiations on terms and conditions continue
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Conference calls for return to national bargaining in reunited probation service
Conference prepares for the organising challenge facing the union as government admits error of its ways on probation
Assistant general secretary Christina McAnea issues rallying call to police and justice conference
From Birmingham to Bangor, from Doncaster to Sandwell, UNISON members were winning in May – and their union was growing stronger too
The government’s admission that privatisation of the probation service has failed is welcome, but it doesn’t go far enough
Grayling’s botched reforms have finally been abandoned
Time to return services to public control
UNISON calls for probation to be brought back into public sector as a reunified and locally run service
Firm’s collapse another example of catastrophic failures of privatisation
NAO report shows failures of privatised probation contracts
UNISON backs petition launched by We Own It for probation services in England and Wales to be brought back in house
Monday 25 February 2019 For immediate release Government must end private contracts before it’s too late, say probation unions Unions have urged the Justice Secretary to end the failed system of privatised probation contracts and bring them back into public ownership before there is ‘drastic and irreversible damage’ to the service. In a joint letter […]
The government must immediately step in to bring these collapsed services back in-house
Probation Alliance, including UNISON, writes to justice secretary David Gauke