POA Circulars

Please find attached NEC minutes for the 8th and 9th March 2022 for your information.

As everyone knows a war is raging in the Ukraine after the Russian invasion and the people in Ukraine who are in grave danger of physical harm and families have fled their homes seeking refuge in neighbouring countries, and others are sheltering from bombs falling in major cities. Normal working life has been forced to stop.

If you pay tax, there’s a fairly high chance you’ve paid too much.

Please find attached NEC minutes for 23^rd February 2022 for your information.

Following on from an earlier Supreme Court decision in Bloomberg v ZXC, handed down in February 2022, the Court of Appeal have determined that personal emails sent from work accounts are not private or confidential and employers have full access to emails sent via a business account.

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

Please find attached Special NEC minutes for 8^th February 2022 and NEC minutes for 9^th February 2022 for your information.

BBC Radio 4's current affairs documentary series 'File on 4' is making a 40-minute programme to be broadcast on the 15^th March about mental illness in prisons and the problems transferring prisoners to hospitals in the community. 

Please find attached NEC minutes for 26^th January 2022 for your information.

Further to POA Circular 116/2021 which outlined the NEC initial view to the Prison White Paper as set out by Government on 7^th December 2021, the National Chairman and I have now sent in a response to the formal consultation, which ends on the 4^th February 2022 (Please find attached).