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Please find attached NEC minutes for the 12th October 2022 for your information.

The Annual Conference for 2023 is scheduled to be held on the above dates at the WELCOME BUILDING, EASTBOURNE and will be THREE days duration.

Please bring the contents of this circular to the attention of all POA members.

The TUC are currently finalising plans for the Lobby of Parliament and evening mass rally on Wednesday 2nd November 2022. Westminster Central Hall is booked as the base for the day and evening.

On a gloriously sunny August bank holiday Saturday afternoon I was proud to join dozens of colleagues from prisons and Probation Services marching in the main parade at Manchester Pride.

Future parliamentary business from Monday 17 October 2022

POA Circular 70/2022 promulgated the timetable for the above election.

Future parliamentary business from Monday 10 October 2022 

Circular 073/2022 provided an update on the process of settling the compensation claims for members following the discriminatory changes made to the civil service and NHS pension schemes in 2015.

If you still pay tax, even if it’s just on your pension, there’s a fairly high chance you may have paid too much.

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.