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

Please find attached Special NEC minutes for 8^th February 2022 and NEC minutes for 9^th February 2022 for your information.

POA Members need a proper pay rise to end the recruitment and retention crisis. Please find the POA 2022 submission to the Prison Service Pay Review Body

BBC Radio 4's current affairs documentary series 'File on 4' is making a 40-minute programme to be broadcast on the 15^th March about mental illness in prisons and the problems transferring prisoners to hospitals in the community. 

Please find attached NEC minutes for 26^th January 2022 for your information.

It has been brought to the attention of the NEC that emails have been sent to closed grade staff who are in receipt of a Market Supplement offering to opt into F&S.

Further to POA Circular 116/2021 which outlined the NEC initial view to the Prison White Paper as set out by Government on 7^th December 2021, the National Chairman and I have now sent in a response to the formal consultation, which ends on the 4^th February 2022 (Please find attached).

The TUS met with the employer for the first outline meeting of 2022 pay talks earlier this month. At the forefront of the initial discussions was the Scottish government pay policy which has been published in December 2021.

The Scottish National Committee Vice Chair post (currently held by Jim McCabe) is due for election.  This will be a five-year post and the successful candidate will take up office at the close of play of Annual Conference May 2022 until May 2027.