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28 August 2019
Probation hostel rest room win
Our employers tried to take away the staff rest room and make it into another bedroom for the residents. This would have generated more income and made us more attractive for privatisation.
22 May 2019
Workers celebrate renationalisation
Probation workers are celebrating a famous victory: All case management in England and Wales will be renationalised from spring 2021.
1 May 2019
Knife crime - a product of capitalist misery
Several recent tragic deaths of teenagers in 'knife crime' incidents have raised concerns about the level of violence affecting young people in England and Wales.
3 April 2019
Probation privatisation failure
"Irredeemably flawed" is the verdict of Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Probation, five years on from the break-up and part-privatisation of the service.
6 March 2019
Boot out failing Grayling and the other Tory wreckers
What does it take before one of the most incompetent government ministers in modern times is sacked? I am of course talking about transport minister Chris Grayling.
6 February 2019
Letters to the Socialist's editors including probation service failures and Venezuela.
22 August 2018
Prison crisis: a catastrophe of cuts and privatisation
Birmingham Prison has become the latest in a long line of catastrophic failures of privatisation
8 August 2018
Take on probation privatisation with union action
The experiment of using private companies' for probation services has resulted in a worse service for staff and for prisoners
4 July 2018
Probation service: 'You are not a priority'
"Is anyone being physically attacked?" Not yet. "Then you are not a priority," say the police.
13 June 2018
Vote Mike Rolfe for Napo general secretary
Napo is struggling to make a significant difference to the working lives of members. In five years, the incumbent, Ian Lawrence, has been unable to stop a decline in membership, and it is time for him to step aside.
15 November 2017
4,800 young people hurt after officers 'restrain' them
End assaults on inmates: Thousands of young people have been harmed while being 'restrained' by officers in secure facilities
5 October 2016
Napo conference 2016: new mood of determination
Probation and family court workers left Napo's annual general meeting in a significantly more buoyant mood to the one in which they arrived. Increased attendance and key debates about the strategy of the union served to energise the conference in a way that hasn't happened since probation services were part-privatised in 2014.
28 September 2016
Napo conference 2016: Bloodied but unbowed!
It is two years since Chris Grayling smashed up and sold off over half the probation service. While this act of vandalism has left many feeling bloodied we remain unbowed.
13 July 2016
Vote Chas Berry for Napo national chair
Socialist Party member Chas Berry, currently vice-chair of the National Association of Probation Officers (Napo), is a candidate in the union's election for national chair. Ballot papers go out on 15 July and voting closes on 25 August. Chas outlines his election programme
21 October 2015
Determined mood at Napo conference
Probation and family court workers organised in Napo left their AGM last week with a new mood of determination to rebuild their union.
14 October 2015
Probation and family courts workers - gathering in Eastbourne for their union Napo's conference - face an uncertain future as the full scale of cuts and privatisation comes into view.
16 September 2015
Probation strike: Probation workers in Unison took three hours of strike action on 14 September in an ongoing dispute over pay
15 September 2015
Unison probation workers' strike
Probation workers in Unison took three hours of strike action on 14 September in an ongoing dispute over pay
2 September 2015
Short reports on some of the latest trade union struggles.
19 August 2015
Probation and courts union Napo needs socialist leadership
Members of probation and family courts union Napo are currently voting for national officers. The union is under sustained attack following the break-up and privatisation of over half the probation service.
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