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“Now we draw our line in the sand.”
Napo General Secretary Ian Lawrence delivered a fighting message
✊ No more unacceptable pay offers.
✊ No more excessive workloads.
✊ No more sacrificing our health and family lives to prop up a failing service.
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🎥 The Justice Secretary addresses Napo AGM 2026
Alex Norris MP, Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary, spoke directly to Napo members about probation and Cafcass workloads, staff safety and pay.
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Justice Secretary acknowledges unacceptable delays around successive probation pay negotiations and is committed to breaking the cycle. This will be welcome news to Napo members, but perhaps too little too late as we head to the ballot box on Monday on pay & workloads
🥳 constitutional amendment 2 has been carried!! Napo will be launching its first ever industrial action ballot electronically ballot on Monday
Napo’s chair confirms that probation members will be balloted on Monday citing the “abject mismanagement of HMPPS” that is “threatening the vocation” #napoagm2026
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📢 Confirmed! Justice Secretary Alex Norris MP will be joining Napo’s AGM on Thursday 15 October.
At a crucial time for probation, we need decision-makers to hear directly about the realities facing staff.
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Press Release: Napo reject pay offer and move to industrial action | Napo napo.org.uk/news/press-relea…
Probation is making waves in the press, but what about in Parliament?
Liz Saville-Roberts MP, Chair of the Justice Unions' Parliamentary Group, will give a report to Napo's AGM in October.
Members can register here: napo.org.uk/agm
Probation is under more pressure than ever. So what does the Chief Inspector think?
Martin Jones CBE, HM Chief Inspector of Probation, will be joining us at our AGM in October to share his thoughts.
Napo members register to attend online or in-person
👉 napo.org.uk/agm
What happens when the law makes people less likely to report violence? On this episode we speak to @swunion_uk and @NationalUglyMug to explore sex workers' safety, workers' rights and what the criminal justice system can do differently.
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The pressures faced by probation staff continue to capture the news headlines.
GS Ian Lawrence, Napo Cymru activist Su McConnel and other probation staff on Ch4 news warning of the dangers of the early release scheme and other Sentencing Act changes.
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“Members are angry, and distressed, and frustrated, that time and time again work is moved onto them from the Prison Service but they do not get fair regard.”
says national chair of Napo
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Are we solving the prison crisis — or just moving it to probation?
90.76% of members of Napo, the trade union representing probation staff, have backed potential industrial action over workloads.
I support greater use of community sentences instead of short prison sentences.
But that only works if probation has the funding and staff needed to properly supervise and rehabilitate those offenders.
Right now, probation staff are warning they are already at breaking point.
#Probation #PrisonCrisis #CriminalJustice
Napo members have voted overwhelmingly in favour of potential industrial action over workloads, with 90.76% backing action and warning government that probation staff are at breaking point, putting public safety at risk.
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Napo members have voted overwhelmingly in favour of potential industrial action over workloads, with 90.76% backing action and warning government that probation staff are at breaking point, putting public safety at risk.
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Napo's warnings about probation workloads are reaching millions through BBC Radio 4 and Channel 4 News. Now it's time for members to turn that attention into action.
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