CIRC 066: ANNUAL STAFF SURVEY

Please be reminded that the current policy of the POA is not to engage in completion of the employer’s annual staff survey. This was determined via Conference Motion 42/2010 carried & reaffirmed by Conference Motion 86/2015 not being adopted.

The NEC have previously engaged on a ‘without prejudice’ basis with HMPPS to discuss how future surveys could be refined so that the POA could reconsider its position, however discussions have not reached a resolution. We remain open to future dialogue should HMPPS wish to engage with the POA on future staff surveys.

The NEC have commissioned their own survey that we now encourage all POA members to complete. It can be accessed in the comfort of your own home or on a smart phone. It will take about 20 minutes to complete and we wish you to be as honest as possible. The results from the survey will be used as evidence to the Pay Review Body during the next round of pay submissions.

At this time the survey is only open to serving members who work in public sector prisons in England and Wales. There will be future surveys for all other members in other jurisdictions in the near future.

PLEASE DO NOT COMPLETE THE ANNUAL HMPPS PEOPLE SURVEY.

PLEASE COMPLETE THE POA MEMBERS SURVEY ON THE FOLLOWING LINK

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/Q53VDXJ

The survey will run from Friday 15th September until Monday 30th October 2023.

Your cooperation is appreciated.

 

Yours sincerely

Mark Fairhurst
National Chair

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.