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Please find the HMPPS Submission to the Prison Service Pay Review Body attached

The POA for a number of years in partnership with the Fire Fighters Charity and funded by the POA Welfare fund have successfully sent many POA members to the rehabilitation centres in order to assist members offering physical and psychological health and wellbeing sessions.

The POA are delighted to have signed up with an Exclusive Associate to Vitality Health and Life Insurance who are called Switch Lifestyles.

Surely, this time, better days lie ahead

 

Cautious approach should be taken to ensure pandemic is finally under control in society

 

Safe prisons are within our grasp if there is a genuine will to do so from senior managers within the service.

POA Circular 156/2020 signalled that the NEC were making preparations to hold Annual Conference in Southport in November 2021 and therefore postponed the May 2021 Conference which proved to be the correct decision given the situation with the pandemic as the May 2021 Conference would certainly not have gone ahead.

Mary Kelly Foy, Labour MP for City of Durham, explains why prison officers deserve far more respect and reward from society for the vital service they perform

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.