National Chair

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

Watch National Chair Mark Fairhurst give evidence at Justice and Home Affairs Committee Tuesday 14 January 2025

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

The NEC, POA members and the wider trade union movement are still grieving the loss of POA Deputy General Secretary Joe Simpson.

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

The atrocities we have recently witnessed in Southport, committed by a 17-year-old ‘child’, should remind us all that – at times of despair and destruction – we need each other for support and should be united in our response. 

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

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

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.