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Watch POA National Chair, Mark Fairhurst’s opening address to Conference 2025

Watch POA National Chair Mark Fairhurst on BBC Breakfast after attack on prison officer by Southport killer Axel Rudakubana

POA National Chair Mark Fairhurst provides update following meeting with the Secretary of State for Justice, Shabana Mahmood

POA National Chair Mark Fairhurst updates members after attack on prison officers at HMP Frankland

The POA's Assistant General Secretary Mick Pimblett discusses the POA’s stance on the lack of rights to any form of industrial action for prison workers and the absence of their reinstatement from the Government's new Workers Rights Bill

POA General Secretary Steve Gillan calls on all MPs to stand up for working people by supporting John McDonnell’s amendments to the Workers Rights Bill

Watch Mark Fairhurst on Sky News regarding Operation Safeguard

Watch this video on Civil Service Pension Scheme - The 2015 Remedy Program

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.