Problems in staffing prisons go back many years and include the introduction of a two tier system for pay, terms and conditions known as ‘Fair and Sustainable.’ (FAST). Essentially, you could undergo career progression if you agreed to a new contract of employment which offered lesser terms and conditions.
The old hands quite rightly refused because of the impact upon pensions and as a consequence, were not allowed to apply for permanent promotion, although many were given ‘temporary,’ or ‘acting,’ positions which they kept for years.
What happened next was that young or inexperienced officers, denied pay progression because of austerity, applied for promotion to grades they wouldn’t normally be qualified for, and in the absence of any competition, they got the job.
The problems on the wings became enormous and over time, the longer serving members of staff left or retired. This is a part explanation for the exodus, but of course, as with probation, the problems are multi-fold and the solutions complex.
The most obvious solution in my mind would be, don’t try to screw your staff and introduce change by negotiation, consultation, and listening. Who knows, the idea might rub off on other areas of the CJS.
Fair and sustainable
What happened next was that young or inexperienced officers, denied pay progression because of austerity, applied for promotion to grades they wouldn’t normally be qualified for, and in the absence of any competition, they got the job.
The problems on the wings became enormous and over time, the longer serving members of staff left or retired. This is a part explanation for the exodus, but of course, as with probation, the problems are multi-fold and the solutions complex.
The most obvious solution in my mind would be, don’t try to screw your staff and introduce change by negotiation, consultation, and listening. Who knows, the idea might rub off on other areas of the CJS.
Of course the man in charge was hugely optimistic in 2012:-
Revision to proposals for working structures in HM Prison Service following the consultation with trade unions
Foreword
This document sets out a revised set of plans following consultation with our trades unions, staff associations and our broader engagement with staff. Since we launched Fair and sustainable in November 2011, we have met with hundreds of staff and received feedback and questions from hundreds more. This process of consultation and listening has been essential in helping us identify gaps and issues in our plans which we have sought to address where possible.
The feedback that you and your union representatives have provided collectively has helped us improve our thinking and clarify our plans. As a result we have made a number of amendments that we believe will enhance the ambitions of these plans to be both sustainable for the future and particularly make our plans even fairer for current staff.
These amendments are set out in the beginning of this document but include: the retention of the non-consolidated payments for Staff Personal Development Record (SPDR) performance for eligible staff remaining on current terms and conditions; an acknowledgement of the impact of the changes to local pay allowances, with the provision of a compensation package on promotion within affected sites; and moving the transition timetable to allow DPSMs to complete their Job Similation Assessment Centre (JSAC) before selection to roles takes place.
I hope that you are now clear that the plans for new terms and conditions set out in Fair and sustainable only relate to pay arrangements – that is salary, hours, pay point progression allowances, and payments. Unless you opt-in to the new terms and conditions set out in this document, Fair and sustainable makes no changes to your current pay. Nor does Fair and sustainable impact on any other parts of terms and conditions such as leave entitlement, sickness or pensions.
In an environment of increased competition and diverse market for the provision of offender services these plans remain absolutely vital for the ongoing competitiveness of HM Prison Service. The future presents a clear challenge for the Service, and these plans represent the Service’s intelligent and necessary response.
In an environment of increased competition and diverse market for the provision of offender services these plans remain absolutely vital for the ongoing competitiveness of HM Prison Service. The future presents a clear challenge for the Service, and these plans represent the Service’s intelligent and necessary response.
It is this fact that has driven a very productive relationship with all trades unions to deliver their support for these plans which, for the POA, was validated by a ballot of their members who voted overwhelmingly to endorse Fair and sustainable. In introducing these changes we have been clear that our aim is to avoid compulsary redundancies as far as possible. The transitional measures set out in this document which we have agreed with trade unions, mean that we are now in a good position to do that.
Preparations are now underway to introduce these plans in establishments. New structures will be in place for April 2013, when staff will all be working in their new roles, to new job descriptions which have all been assessed by the new job evaluation system (JES).
To get there we have a clear and structured process to guide all prisons through the transition as smoothly as possible. However, I do not under-estimate the impact that this will have on all of you, and the Service in general. This is not just about structural change but, much more importantly, about moving to a new, and better, way of working. To do this we will need to manage this change in a way that is fair and decent to our staff and protects the spirit, pride and strong delivery that defines HM Prison Service. I am determined that we will achieve this.
Michael Spurr
Chief Executive Officer
It could be argued that spurr took that 2-tier approach because he knew the POA from his prison time & was forced to allow them a get-out clause for cannier staff not prepared to fall for the 'fair & sustainable' scam - regardless of his weasel words:
ReplyDelete"The feedback that you and your union representatives have provided collectively has helped us improve our thinking and clarify our plans. As a result we have made a number of amendments that we believe will enhance the ambitions of these plans to be both sustainable for the future and particularly make our plans even fairer for current staff."
Probation staff were never allowed such a choice, which shows the contempt noms had for both probation staff & napo. Helen Edwards was running noms when the trusts were created, imposing non-negotiable transfers of employment. wheatley, then spurr, were variously in charge when terms & conditions were surrendered by napo in exchange for one of the worst pay deals ever; and spurr famously made napo sign up for the pisspoor tr transfer agreement which stripped probation staff of choice, of future employment & cost hundreds of job losses, leaving only the favoured & privileged collaborators with substantial increase in opportunity & wage packet.
hmcts lies & deceptions sound very similar to the hmpps culture
ReplyDeletehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live/bbc_radio_fourfm
An ambitious plan to digitalize the courts was meant to remove the need for hundreds of thousands of paper documents. But File on 4 Investigates has discovered an IT system, introduced as part of a £1bn project, has been plagued with technical faults - causing crucial information to go missing, be overwritten, or appear lost.
The government body that runs the courts in England and Wales has now checked hundreds of thousands of benefit and child support appeals to identify if any were affected by missing evidence. But sources say the IT bug was known about for years before action was taken.
Original journalism by Alys Harte.
Reporter: Datshiane Navanayagam.
Producers: Lorna Acquah, Fergus Hewison
Link to File on Four 'The IT bug that's caused chaos in the courts' is here :- https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002m04j
Deleteone of the it whistleblowers described a culture of "just get it done"... more commonly recognised as JFDI.
DeleteYet successive civil service leaders of justice dept are ennobled & enriched & promoted - romeo, farrar, rees
Has anyone told lord cobblers? They spoke with failed justice sec alex chalk (he's been squealing a lot lately) who seemed to think all of the lies & failures were hidden from him, so his hands are 'clean'. Lack of professional curiosity?
DeleteDigitise this trials are underway to pilot electronic supervision no more needs to come to see a po just a surveillance call. A small cost from 700 million.
ReplyDeleteI can see this keeping staff at the desk. No more meeting rooms then. Digitalisation of previous engagement is a step into virtual case management. If this is true how will it be monitored. Part of supervision is the physical attendance at an office. If this is to go as well when will there be any interaction of meaning. I can't believe this. What risk group is it for then.
DeletePress one for recall
ReplyDeletePress two for breach
Press three if had 10 different officers in three months
Press four if not one offered any tangible. Support
Press five if better to keep people away from probation at all costs
All wrong the decisions will also be automated the staff agree merely a physical witness to process. Wake up you guys no wonder your all over you cannot see where this is going despite all that has happened to. Big state says automate reducing spending on expensive not required staffing level. Gawwd myopic .
Deletehttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/12/two-prison-officers-seriously-injured-attack-feltham-youth/
ReplyDeletehttps://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/nov/12/release-errors-show-the-sorry-state-that-prisons-are-in
ReplyDeleteI have considerable sympathy with David Lammy’s current predicament (Lammy says he was right not to discuss mistakenly freed prisoner at PMQs, 6 November). Our entire justice system was woefully neglected throughout 14 years of Conservative tenure. But this neglect was particularly calamitous in relation to our prisons. Rectifying the obscenity that currently passes for our prison system will require enormous government investment of public money at a time when public finances are stretched and sympathy for our prison population is low: there are precious few votes in a manifesto promise to improve the lot of prisoners.
DeleteHowever, I feel we must look at this disgraceful situation from the standpoint of the poor prison officers who are tasked with working in these dreadful institutions. If conditions in our largely outdated prisons are bad for the inmates, just imagine what it is like having to work in them. It must be incredibly difficult to recruit new staff to the Prison Service and nigh on impossible to retain them, leaving the service dependent on young, inexperienced, demotivated staff with poor morale who are regularly exposed to high levels of verbal and physical abuse.
Being a prison officer should be a high-status profession respected by the public, personally fulfilling for the officers, well paid, with continuous training, opportunities for career development and good levels of restorative annual leave. Staff-to-prisoner ratios must be dramatically improved to enable officers to engage in the essential tasks of education, rehabilitation and preparing prisoners for reintegration following release. Currently, their role is simply to supervise the incarceration of prisoners in their cells for a large proportion of every day.
We must improve the physical, social, economic and rehabilitative aspects of our prisons, if not for the inmates, then for the poor benighted souls who have laudably chosen a career in the Prison Service, a job that few of us would be prepared to consider.
John Lovelock
Bristol
Peter Walker’s analysis of the chaotic circumstances behind recent prison release errors comes as no surprise to anyone with experience of our prison system (Overcrowding, understaffing and old IT: chaotic context to prison release errors, 6 November) .
What the inspection reports don’t fully capture is the daily reality inside these places. Many prisoners live in unclean, rat-infested conditions that would be condemned if found in any other public building. Violence, drug use and self-harm statistics, while “gradually improving” in some places like Wandsworth, paint a picture of profoundly unsafe environments for both prisoners and staff everywhere.
There is some evidence that the drug crisis is keeping a temporary lid on behaviour, but it fuels a shadow economy controlled by organised crime groups and corrupt staff members, and creates the very instability that makes rehabilitation impossible. The prison wings may appear superficially calm, but this represents containment, not safety or progress.
If rehabilitation was already a struggle under these conditions, it now risks becoming a pipedream. We cannot continue to warehouse people in Dickensian squalor with diminishing support.
James Stoddart
Project coordinator, The Oswin Project
SNAFUed???
ReplyDeletehttps://insidetime.org/ray-says/criminal-justice-system-acronyms-and-anachronisms/
'Getafix
SNAFU is an acronym that is widely used to stand for the sarcastic expression "Situation normal: all fucked up". It is an example of military acronym slang. It is sometimes censored to "all fouled up" or similar. It means that the situation is bad, but that this is a normal state of affairs.
DeleteThe pointless nature of MoJ / HMPPS, its ineffectiveness as a public service body and the drain on public funds (although it looks after its senior civil service leaders very well). Discuss.
ReplyDelete• The total net resource expenditure for the UK Ministry of Justice in the 2010-2011 financial year was approximately £13.04 billion.
• For the 2025-26 financial year, the Ministry of Justice has been allocated a total departmental expenditure limit of approximately £13.8 billion.
https://prisonreformtrust.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/old_files/Documents/prison%20briefing%20may%202009.pdf
"With the coalition government facing tough choices, reversing the unsustainable trend in ever expanding prison numbers will be an urgent priority. Each new prison place costs £170,000 to build and maintain, and the cost per prisoner per year is £45,000.
In 2007-08, reoffending by all recent ex-prisoners cost the economy between £9.5 billion and £13 billion and as much as three quarters of this cost can be attributed to former short- sentenced prisoners: some £7 billion to £10 billion a year."
*** £13 billion in 2009 is the equivalent of approximately £22.2 billion in 2025, due to a cumulative inflation of around 71.42% over the 16-year period
*** The annual cost of reoffending in England and Wales has been estimated at £23.6 billion as of February 2025
https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/research/key-issues-for-the-new-parliament/security-and-liberty/the-prison-population/
"The Labour Government aimed to achieve an overall net capacity of just over 96,000 by 2014, mainly through two major prison building programmes. Its Core Capacity Programme was to provide 12,500 places by 2012, with capital construction costs of around £2 billion and additional annual running costs of around £480 million. A further 7,500 places were planned through the New Prisons Programme (alongside the closure of 5,500 inefficient places). Originally three “Titan prisons” were to provide those 7,500 places. Following consultation, five large prisons each holding 1,500 were proposed, with total capital costs of around £1.2 billion. A maintenance backlog for the existing estate may cost a further £1.2 billion."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11586371
"In a statement, the Ministry of Justice said that a major package of reforms will lie at the heart of its plans to meet the cuts set out by the Chancellor George Osborne.
It said: "The reforms will stabilise the prison population and then start to reduce it by 2014-15. We expect that by the end of the Spending Review period the number of prisoners will be around 3,000 lower than it is today." "
Misc sources I can't remember cos I didn't make a note, sorry:
"The overall capital budget for the Ministry of Justice was significantly reduced following the October 2010 Spending Review. The total capital expenditure for prisons in England and Wales for the financial year 2010-11 was approximately £318.5 million... In the financial year 2019-2020, capital expenditure was approximately £697 million... For the 2025-26 financial year, the UK Ministry of Justice's capital expenditure for HMPPS is set to include £1.2 billion for prison expansion and up to £300 million for prison and probation maintenance"
https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publication/performance-tracker-2025/criminal-justice/prisons
"Spending in 2025/26 is projected to be 10% above 2009/10 levels."
https://ifs.org.uk/publications/justice-spending-england-and-wales
"In this report, we provide a detailed description and analysis of how MoJ spending has evolved over more than two decades."
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6903408be2ebc0fb39a51fd2/HMPPS_Annual_Report_and_Accounts_2024_to_25_-_1.0_WEB.pdf
"The adult male prison estate has been under acute pressure since September 2022. Since then, managing prison and probation capacity has been an ongoing top priority for the department. From January 2023 to July 2024, the adult male prison estate routinely operated at over 99% of capacity."
Guess what?
Deletehttps://hmiprobation.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/news/urgent-need-for-action-as-domestic-abuse-continues-to-be-inadequately-managed-by-the-probation-service/
"The spotlight review has shown that delivery of sentences to domestic abuse perpetrators continues to show deficits, with insufficient delivery of interventions and a lack of reviewing activity to make necessary adjustments throughout the sentence."
https://hmiprobation.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/document/evaluating-the-impact-of-the-probation-services-efforts-to-combat-domestic-abuse/
"In our 2023 inspection, only 28 per cent of cases had a sufficient risk assessment, and 45 per cent of people who should have received interventions had not... Given the prevalence and impact of domestic abuse, we have revisited the topic to explore progress against the recommendations we made in 2023... Of the 13 recommendations we made in 2023, sufficient progress had been made in three, some progress in six, and insufficient progress in two. For the remaining two, we were unable to assess progress due to limitations in the available evidence."
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https://hmiprobation.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/document/an-inspection-of-probation-services-in-dyfed-powys-pdu-2025/
Fieldwork started August 2025 Score 4/21
P 1.1 Leadership Good
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https://hmiprobation.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/document/safeguarding-adults-at-risk-of-harm-supervised-by-the-probation-service-in-england-a-thematic-inspection/
"Keeping people on probation safe helps to keep the public safe and this report calls for a renewed focus on embedding safeguarding at the core of probation practice."
https://hmiprobation.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/news/systemic-barriers-to-safeguarding-adults-at-risk-of-harm-supervised-by-the-probation-service/
Deleteoh.
https://insidetime.org/newsround/mystery-over-392-million-contract-at-troubled-jail/
ReplyDeleteany updates as to who is running Forest Bank now?
The .gov pages still show sodexo, but haven't been updated since 2022:
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/forest-bank-prison#full-publication-update-history
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-prison-houseblocks-to-make-streets-safer
Delete"A Devon jail is set to almost double in size as the Government ploughs ahead with the largest prison building programme since the Victoria era... Today’s news represents a significant milestone in the Government’s aims to build 14,000 additional prison places by 2031 - with around 2,500 of these having already been built since July 2024."
no good if staffing is not in place will just result in closed empty wings. millsike springs to mind
DeletePolice and crime commissioners to be scrapped.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/13/police-and-commissioners-to-be-abolished-government-to-announce
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c93d4dd3l3lo
DeletePolice and crime commissioners are to be scrapped in England and Wales to save £100m over this parliament, the government has said.
The Home Office said that less than 20% of voters can name their PCC, with Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood describing the system as a "failed experiment".
There are currently 41 commissioners under the system, introduced 12 years ago by former Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron.
The role will move to either an elected mayor or council leaders at the end of the commissioners' terms in 2028.
The Home Office said the saving will allow them to invest an extra £20m in front-line policing every year, which it said was enough for 320 constables.
Though its stated aim was to make forces more accountable to the areas they serve, the costs of the system and the effectiveness of commissioners has long been criticised.
Policing minister Sarah Jones told the Commons on Thursday that the model had "failed to live up to expectations" and "not delivered what it was set up to achieve".
She added that "public understanding [of PCCs' role] remains low despite efforts to raise their profiles."
Jones said PCCs had sought to provide strong oversight and tackle crime but the model "weakened local police accountability and has had perverse impacts on the recruitment of chief constables."
PCCs' main responsibilities include setting an annual budget, appointing chief constables, producing a five year policing plan, and assessing the performance of their force against the plan.
The Home Office said under the changes, measures to cut crime would be "considered as part of wider public services", including education and healthcare.
It added that the government would ensure support services for victims and witnesses currently provided by PCCs would continue.
Mahmood said the introduction of new reforms would make police accountable to their local mayoralties or councils.
Responding to the announcement in the Commons, shadow home secretary Chris Philp said it "represents a tinkering around the edges from a government which is failing on crime and policing".
He cited rises in crimes including shoplifting, as well as warnings from police forces of cuts to front line staffing due to funding shortfalls.
Emily Spurrell, the PCC for Merseyside and chair of the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners, said PCCs were "deeply disappointed by this decision and the lack of engagement with us".
She argued that the role had "improved scrutiny and transparency, ensuring policing delivers on the issues that matter most to local communities".
"Abolishing PCCs now, without any consultation, as policing faces a crisis of public trust and confidence... risks creating a dangerous accountability vacuum," she said.
PCC's were a stupid idea, ineffective and waste of money - however they could possibly have been a route for a different devolved Probation model aka Greater Manchester. Interestingly it looks like Metro Mayors may keep their PCC role - so it remains a possibility I suppose.
Deletehttps://www.poauk.org.uk/news-events/news-room/posts/2025/november/pr-293-overcrowded-understaffed-prison-system-in-crisis-new-report-finds/
DeleteThe UK’s Prison Officers feel undervalued, stressed, have low morale and are frequently exposed to abuse, violence and aggression in an understaffed and overcrowded system that is failing prisoners and the staff who care for them, according to the results of a survey of the Officers who work on the frontline of the country’s Prisons crisis.
DeleteThe results come following a series of high-profile incidents in the UK’s Prisons including the terrorist attack on staff at Frankland Prison in Durham and the widely reported mistaken release of prisoners.
The survey covered a wide range of issues and showed that 85% of Prison Officers believe there are not enough staff to safely supervise prisoners, 83% said there is not enough space for prisoners, 72% said they are frequently stressed at work and 74% want to be issued with slash/bite proof vests to help protect them in the course of their duties.
45% of staff have been assaulted at least once at work and 91% have been verbally abused or threatened.
The condition of the prison estate was a very serious concern; 80% of Officers said their Prison was in desperate need of modernisation and 83% said there is not enough activity space for prisoners in their care.
97% said the retirement age for officers was too high and 96% believe Prison Officers should have the right to strike.
Commenting on the results of the survey Steve Gillan, General Secretary of the POA said:
“The POA has been warning the Government for years about the state of the Prisons system and this survey further exposes the depth of the crisis.
Our members on the frontline are dedicated professionals who want to do the job they signed up for but are being prevented from doing so because of decades of neglect and underinvestment.
What we need is urgent action to address understaffing, overcrowding and daily violent incidents, all of which is having a major impact on staff well-being and morale and we need longer term investment in the Prison Estate to ensure it is fit for purpose and allows POA members to do the job they are trained to do.”
Mark Fairhurst POA Chair added:
“This survey shows that POA members don’t want special treatment, they want fairness, respect and to be rewarded appropriately for the work we do. This means action on their health, safety and well-being, improvements in pay, lowering the retirement age and reinstating the fundamental human right to withdraw our labour.
The POA will be seeking meetings with the Ministry of Justice and The Secretary of State for Justice to discuss the results of this very important survey and how we can take forward the issues raised by our members.”
https://www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gk73zmrz1o.amp?amp_gsa=1&_js_v=a9&usqp=mq331AQIUAKwASCAAgM%3D#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=17631323790981&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com
DeleteThree prison staff have been charged with offences following the death of an inmate at Leeds Prison.
DeleteChristopher Pearson died at the jail on 10 September 2021 at the age of 42.
Nurses Aimee Adam, 33, from Worksop, and Merjury Chitadzinga, 49, from Mexborough, have been charged with careworker neglect, a Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) spokesperson said.
Leanne Hollis, 38, a prison custody manager from Barnsley, has been charged with misconduct in public office. All three are due to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 9 December.
According to the campaign group Inquest, Mr Pearson, who had mental health problems, died from cardiac arrest after a period of restraint by prison officers.
You’ll get your 2% soon
ReplyDeleteYeah, when hell freezes over!
DeleteI'll tell you what has frozen over Napo they said they will keep us posted and as usual we are frozen out no talks no news and yes no money.
DeleteThe dreadful assault on staff at Preston Probation Office in the Summer laid bare some serious shortcomings on Health and Safety at that location, and Napo members everywhere will join us in sending our best wishes to the staff directly involved as they continue their journey towards recovery.
ReplyDeleteFollowing this incident, Napo has been working closely with our members at Preston Probation and across the wider Cumbria and Lancashire Branch to monitor the progress of the subsequent internal investigation and we await more news on when the full range of recommendations from that will be fully implemented. We are also waiting to hear from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) who are considering the report that the employer was obliged to send to them under the RIDDOR regulations . This may result in the HSE deciding to order their own investigation of the incident.
In addition to the staff briefing that took place at Preston, where the results of the investigation were shared, Napo has maintained its position that the trade unions should have access to the full report under Health and Safety legislation. We have also received further feedback from local members in response to the recommendations which we are currently considering.
Some movement expected nationally on Health and Safety
Our work with senior HMPPS management nationally is led by Napo’s Health and Safety Leads: Ian Lawrence (General Secretary) and National Vice-Chair Tony Perkins. They continue to press senior HMPPS management to deliver a package of Health and Safety measures that will be rolled out across the wider Probation Estate. This dialogue has taken place via meetings of the National Health, Safety, Fire and Legal Committee and at the last two meetings of the Probation Joint National Committee (JNC).
At yesterday’s JNC we reported back to management that our contact with our members across England and Wales demonstrates that there is a palpable fear by many Probation staff about their safety in and outside of the workplace, and that it is vitally important that their employer is seen to respond quickly and effectively to their concerns.
We were therefore pleased to hear that the considerable work that we know has been going on across various Probation Directorates is gaining traction, and that, subject to approval by Ministers it is intended that a roll out of a National Health and Safety Action Plan for Probation should be appearing by the end of this month. It is understood that this will be the subject of an all-staff presentation and will be required to be discussed at meetings between Regional Directors and joint trade unions prior to its roll out. We have also just received a new template for the carrying out of General Risk Assessments (GRA’s) which we will now seek to agree centrally at the earliest opportunity.
Health and Safety is also an individual issue
While it’s important for Napo to make progress nationally, this work is supplemented by your local and regional Napo representatives who engage with management at all levels including Regional JNC’s. They continue to stress the need for health and safety to be treated as a priority and the need for parties to work collaboratively to ensure that safe working practices are regularly reviewed. Your nominated representatives also attend at meetings of Napo’s Health and Safety Forum where we receive valuable information which helps to inform our approach.
Individual members are also asked to ensure that where incidents or ‘near misses’ occur, that these must be reported through the ‘Sphera’ system so that we can monitor the bigger picture across the Probation community.
Napo working for you
Whilst we are not yet able to provide more specific detail as we would have liked in this particular update, we felt it is important to confirm that Napo has been doing everything it can to ensure that practical steps are going to be taken by the employer to improve safety standards and afford better protection for our members at the workplace.
All well and good, and long overdue however, let’s hope that 1) HMPPS reviews the role of probation staff in dealing with people sentenced by the courts and accepts that proper supervision is effective when based upon a professional relationship not bullying and threatening, and (2) the cost doesn’t come out of any eventual pay rise.
DeleteNapo palpable and the management won't release the report to us. Napo are you that stupid. Worse that the general secretary is lead on hs.
DeleteThe employers won't share the report in full . 1 Napo lodge dispute on the undisclosed but known risk to all staff nationally.
2 The report be made immidiatly available in full and frank consultation to protect our members and seek urgent remedial solutions where identified.
3 secrecy from staff sides is a breach of faith and lacks respect for the unions members leaders.
4 without disclosure Napo will direct its members to manage themselves locally regardless of office process and goodwill until such information is known otherwise to ensure so far as possible national staff safety.
5 failure to share critical staff safety assessments reports is a breach of the union recognition agreement and is bad faith treatment of Napo.
Seems to me Lawrence would rather kow tow for what he is entitled than manage affectively and assertively for due regard. Cowardly briefing.
"a roll out of a National Health and Safety Action Plan for Probation should be appearing by the end of this month."
Delete"Appearing"?? ??
* Not like that, like this? * Izzy Wizzy let's get busy?
Which implies there isn't one.
Abracadabra 🎉
Announcement 📣 Disney movies announce the next Frozen movie - Frozen 4 starring NAPO and HMPPS Probation Service
DeleteProbation staff
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Is this a Victorian parlour game where words are drawn from a stocking & each player has to make a sentence? Or just a series of rubbish Haikus? Either way it's jolly good fun 👏
DeleteNo whoever is posting these liners is both dyslexic dispraxsic ending properly by the sound of thick . They are posts from someone who is thick. I look at them like cryptic puzzle but nah just thick comes to mind.
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ReplyDeleteThe attack that took place in ‘summer’……….it is now November and the talking shop continues……staff need protection now,not in six months time………of course the reality is the cost of knife arches and associated security staff is prohibitive and the considerations that are taking place are along the lines of how can we fudge this so we don’t have to lay out anything……..that’s how much staff are valued
ReplyDeleteIndeed and the Napo inaction is an endorsement of the status quo doing nothing ignores the issues. Napo don't have sight of a report why the f not then . Get to health and safety executive and raise a complaint coward Lawrence cannot consult tomprotwct us if you don't bother to get the information. Scrounging around a few branches dysfunctional as they all these days won't give you hard facts.
DeleteI know exactly what's gonna happen following the health and safety report. The responsiblity will dumped onto front line staff to stare at interview screen cameras like CCTV operators.
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