POA Circulars

Please find attached NEC minutes for the 26th November 2025 for your information.

 

POA are launching welcome calls to all new POA members this week. 

Please bring the contents of this circular to the attention of all POA members.

Please note the following information shared with POA by Capita/Cabinet Office this morning. 

The POA are entitled to send 10 delegates to the TUC Black Worker’s Conference which will be held at The Bournemouth International Centre in Bournemouth from 24th -26th April 2026. 

Please find attached NEC minutes for the 12th November 2025 for your information.

 

The Annual Conference for 2026 is scheduled to be held on the above dates at the Welcome Building, Eastbourne and will be THREE days duration.

 

As part of the POA International work which has been approved by Annual Conference, Cuba solidarity have invited the POA to send young trade unionists to Cuba May Day in 2026.

Please find attached NEC minutes for the 22nd October 2025 for your information.

Please find enclosed a copy of the POA Written Pay Submissions covering Public Sector Prisons in England and Wales for 2026/27. The remit group covers all POA members from Bands 2-5 and managers at grades 7-12.

Representing over 30,000 Prison, Correctional and Secure Psychiatric Workers, the POA is the largest UK Union in this sector, able to trace its roots back more than 100 years.