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Prison Officers Association Chair Mark Fairhurst will give evidence to the Justice and Home Affairs Committee inquiry into Prison Culture: Governance, Leadership and Staffing.

MyCSP confirmed that the Rollback Annual Benefit Statements 2024 for members with a deferred choice underpin 2024 would not be issued.

Please find attached NEC minutes, for the 11th December2024 for your information.

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

Radon is a colourless, odourless radioactive gas. It is formed by the radioactive decay of small amounts of uranium that occur naturally in all rocks and soils.

The National Audit Office estimates the Prison maintenance backlog has doubled to £1.8 billion in the past four years. Kim Johnson MP has tabled an Early Day Motion, EDM, calling for Prison maintenance to be brought back 'in-house'.

Angela Montgomery, Assistant General Secretary, reports on the TUC Black Workers' Conference, which took place at Congress House on 26-28 April 2024.

The debate over giving prison officers back their ‘industrial muscle’ is heating up, reports Charley Allan

The Scottish POA conference was held at Peebles Hydro again this year, a venue that has been host to us now for four years and always achieves excellent standards as far as guests and delegates are concerned.