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Watch the interview with Geoff Willets on ITV News, talk about the prison outbreak putting England's smallest county top of Covid infection chart

Please see the link to the Left Review Magazine and the POAS’s article on page 11 and advert page 18

Please find attached NEC minutes for 10th and 24th February 2021 for your information.   Yours sincerely STEVE GILLANGeneral Secretary ...

Following the issue of Circulars 01/21 02/21 & 05/21 relating to the election of Scottish National Committee Chair, I can confirm that John Cairney, having received support from the branches listed below, is the sole nominee for the post.

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

Health workers are currently in the final year of a three-year deal. They are due a pay rise in April.

Provisional parliamentary business has now been announced for this period, including the following that may be of relevance to you. Please note, the following may change at short notice. 

The Labour Research Department have produced a Booklet on ‘Working Safely with Covid-19. The coronavirus pandemic has presented significant new health and safety challenges for workers and their trade unions.

Please make yourselves familiar with the latest GOLD Briefing that has been issued to all Governors (copy enclosed).

We wrote to you on 14th December 2020 with updates and we want to keep that theme going and we hope this latest update is helpful.

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.