CIRC 050: GENERAL FEDERATION OF TRADE UNIONS EDUCATION PROGRAMME 2024–2025

The POA aims to provide learning opportunities for members. The POA ensures that its work in engaging staff in life-long learning is exemplary. The POA works in partnership with various employers and appropriate organisations who can support the POA in engaging members in accessing learning across England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales or areas where POA members work. The General Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU) is one such partner who continue to develop educational courses for Trade Unionists who are affiliates of the GFTU.

As an affiliate of the GFTU, POA members are entitled to attend the majority of courses for free. Please find attached a full programme. This is all viewable online, and applications can be made here: https://gftuet.org.uk/education

Travel and subsistence will be paid in the normal manner. Any accommodation costs as a result of attending a residential course will be met by GFTU. Facility time has not been granted for attendance on these courses and members will have to attend in their own time.

Please bring this circular to the attention of all members.

Thank you for your anticipated support.

 

Yours sincerely

STEVE GILLAN
General Secretary

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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.