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2026

• GFTU and training for POA reps
  12th August 2026 – 26 min
• POA Members' survey 2026
  31st July 2026 – 10 min
• Ask The Chair 4
  9th July 2026 – 24 min
• Comms with members
  3rd July 2026 – 27 min
• Making a difference - Health and Safety inspections
  25th June 2026 – 30 min
• Valley Parade Memorial Tournament - more than just football
  18th May 2026 – 18 min
• Ask The Chair 3
  1st May 2026 – 17 min
• Separation Centres
  16th April 2026 – 19 min
• Boost for Right To Strike campaign
  25th March 2026 – 10 min
• Branch Officials Training
  18th March 2026 – 17 min
• Ask The Chair
  4th March 2026 – 21 min
• Young Members and the POA
  25th February 2026 – 26 min
• The 2025 Women's event
  4th February 2026 – 17 min
• POA members' survey - the results
  5th January 2026 – 12 min

2025

• Ask The Chair 2
  16th December 2025 – 18 min
• The POA and the Tolpuddle Martyrs
  28th November 2025 – 14 min
• 68 is too late - important campaign update
  5th November 2025 – 9 min
• Drones and how we stop them
  28th October 2025 – 10 min
• Ask The Chair
  23rd October 2025 – 15 min
• Pay 2026 update
  14th October 2025 – 11 min
• POA at the TUC - Steve Gillan elected President
  25th September 2025 – 17 min
• Tribunal win for Gatwick IRC members
  29th August 2025 – 23 min
• POA member services: Chesterton Grant
  20th August 2025 – 21 min
• Labour in government 1 year on
  7th August 2025 – 17 min
• Members' benefits from POA Protect
  11th July 2025 – 13 min
• PTSD - confronting the epidemic
  25th June 2025 – 22 min
• Conference Review
  23rd May 2025 – 13 min
• The importance of Regime Management Plans
  9th May 2025 – 25 min
• Behind the scenes at the POA
  1st May 2025 – 24 min
• What makes a good governor?
  14th March 2025 – 24 min
• Fixing buildings maintenance in prisons
  28th February 2025 – 19 min
• Pay 2025 update
  3rd February 2025 – 13 min
• New Year message from the National Chair
  10th January 2025 – 15 min

2024

• POA and the Valley Parade Memorial Tournament
  10th December 2024 – 23 min
• POA and Justice For Columbia
  2nd December 2024 – 28 min
• We want our trade union rights back!
  15th November 2024 – 49 min
• The POA and the Prison Service Pay Review Body
  1st November 2024 – 23 min
• The importance of reporting accidents and near-misses
  1st October 2024 – 21 min
• Retired Members go from strength to strength
  10th September 2024 – 13 min
• National Chair's briefing
  23rd August 2024 – 11 min
• New Government and Pay Review Body update
  2nd August 2024 – 15 min
• POA conference review
  25th June 2024 – 23 min
• POA and the TUC Women's Conference
  6th June 2024 – 19 min
• Prison overcrowding, the General Election and challenges for the new government
  30th May 2024 – 17 min
• Getting it right on Health and Safety
  8th May 2024 – 25 min
• Women's Networking event take 2!
  12th April 2024 – 16 min
• Time to banish blades from prisons!
  25th March 2024 – 13 min
• The POA Welfare Fund and Firefighters' Charity
  28th February 2024 – 13 min
• Private Sector membership and organisation
  14th February 2024 – 18 min

2023

• The POA at Manston
  19th December 2023 – 17 min
• The challenges of working in the Youth Custody Service (YCS)
  16th November 2023 – 16 min
• New First Aid/Emergency First Aid standards explained
  9th November 2023 – 14 min
• Union victory on Fitness Tests, and what's happening at Wandsworth?
  17th October 2023 – 10 min
• The POA and political activity
  10th October 2023 – 39 min
• Behind These Doors - in conversation with Alex South
  10th September 2023 – 30 min
• Transferring to F&S? Here are the facts
  22nd August 2023 – 11 min
• Young Members and the POA
  18th August 2023 – 27 min
• Dave Cook retrospective: 30 years of POA activism.
  21st July 2023 – 35 min
• Why we need a Royal Commission into the Criminal Justice system
  22nd June 2023 – 12 min
• Conference review with Mark Fairhurst and Steve Gillan
  22nd May 2023 – 21 min
• Toolkit episode - the role and importance of Union Safety Representsatives
  10th May 2023 – 10 min
• Behind the scenes with POA reps working in Secure Hospitals
  4th May 2023 – 37 min
• Four-legged friends: Dog-handlers, their dogs and the POA
  10th April 2023 – 31 min
• Operational Support Grades
  8th March 2023 – 20 min
• The anti-strike law and the POA, featuring Mark Fairhurst, National Chair.
  27th February 2023 – 14 min
• What POA legal services can do for you - and a new way to access the service
  23rd January 2023 – 20 min
• Women's Networking Event - a review
  1st January 2023 – 40 min

2022

• POA's Employment Law services - a key membership benefit
  1st December 2022 – 18 min
• Sally Jameson - POA branch chair and parliamentary candidate
  15th November 2022 – 13 min
• POA legal services - supporting members and their families
  1st November 2022 – 27 min
• Immigration Crisis Special Edition
  24th October 2022 – 14 min
• Legal services and union support if you are arrested
  1st October 2022 – 16 min
• Supporting women in the workplace
  28th September 2022 – 13 min
• A guide to the POA's legal services
  1st September 2022 – 15 min
• The POA guide to Coroner's Court hearings
  1st August 2022 – 35 min
• Working with and for members with disabilities
  1st July 2022 – 23 min
• POA conference in review and why you should march on 18 June
  13th June 2022 – 11 min
• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) - its impact on Prison Officers and the support available
  1st June 2022 – 38 min
• POA - working for gender equality and better diversity and inclusivity
  8th May 2022 – 35 min
• Menopause matters
  29th April 2022 – 9 min
• Health and Safety and You
  1st April 2022 – 39 min
• The POA's Political Fund
  11th March 2022 – 9 min
• Health, safety and maintaining resilience for Prison Officers
  1st March 2022 – 29 min
• Govt White Paper "a missed opportunity" but high hopes for new "Safe Inside" Bill
  1st February 2022 – 25 min

2021

• The Wandsworth Prison Museum - a tour of it's exhibits and stories with Stewart McLaughlin.
  27th December 2021 – 34 min
• Feeling the benefit of POA membership
  1st December 2021 – 39 min
• Same But Different - POA across the UK's devolved administrations
  1st November 2021 – 38 min
• Finlay Spratt looks back on 30 years of POA service
  1st October 2021 – 31 min
• Looking after members working in privatised prisons
  1st September 2021 – 21 min
• Pension campaigns made clear
  1st August 2021 – 34 min
• 68 is too late!
  8th July 2021 – 20 min
• POA social media upgrade trailer
  30th June 2021 – 12 min