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Phil Fairlie, Assistant General Secretary for Scotland, reflects on the past 12 months

POA members in England and Wales who work in public-sector jails will rightly be outraged at the betrayal of the government in relation to pay.

HMPPS would have you all believe that they are successfully recruiting thousands of frontline prison officers and we will soon be up to the target staff in post figures for every establishment.

Prison officers are throwing their weight behind two parliamentary initiatives this month – Earl Attlee’s bid to ban the “facilitation of potting” and Grahame Morris MP’s Prisons (Violence) Bill, aka the “Safe Inside Law”.