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POA March and RallyPOA protests over violence and retirement age

THEEXTRAEDITION

PRISON PRIVATISATION68 IS TOO LATE STOP VIOLENCE AT WORK

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The POAThe Professional Trades Union for Prison, Correctional and Secure Psychiatric WorkersCronin House, 245 Church Street, London, N9 9HWT: 020 8803 0255E: [email protected]: poauk.org.uk

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Dear Reader

Welcome to the Special Gatelodge Extra, which celebrates the events of March 20, 2019 when hundreds of POA members supported the NEC during a march and rally through London.

The day was a great success with politicians and other key speakers addressing the delegation.

The theme of the day was reducing violence in the workplace and the retirement age for POA members: 68 is too late.

March 20 was also historic as the Leader of the Opposition, Jeremy Corbyn, wore a POA badge in solidarity during Prime Ministers' Questions.

The POA must improve communications and our campaigning strategy if we are to influence change. Members can change the public's perception of what you do and how difficult and demanding your role is.

The day was not about money, it was about safety and decency.The POA must continue to learn from past experiences if we are to be in a position

of strength and the union must grow to face the challenges ahead. If you attended thank you, if you didn’t try and get to the next one!!!!I want to pay special tribute to Helen and the team at Century One for working hard

to get this edition out to members.

Glyn Travis

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Stop PressDear Members

The National Executive Committee determined to hold a March and Rally in Central London on March 20, 2019 as part of your campaign to address violence in the workplace, reduce the pension age and make your

workplaces safer.

This was a great success on the day with hundreds of POA members attending.

The Executive recognises that it is not always possible for members to attend events such as this, however, your vote and your opinion counts.

The National Executive Committee determined to produce this Gatelodge Extra as a celebration of the day and a keepsake for members. It also determined that every full member whose home address is held on our

database would be sent their own copy, in addition to limited numbers being dispatched to all branches.

It is clear the union has your home address and as such the Executive believes to increase returns in national elections on important matters where we are required and/or use an electoral service in accordance with

TULRCA that you along with all other members should receive your ballot paper at home.

The Executive will be looking to improve the union's membership IT system and will be seeking your approval to use your home address for ballot purposes where appropriate.

Please look out for key info which will be circulated by the Executive in the near future.

We welcome your views and comments on this idea and the content of the Gatelodge Extra.

Please forward any comments to [email protected].

Thanking you in anticipation of your support and co-operation.

Mark Fairhurst National Chair

Steve Gillan General Secretary

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Members DemonstrateChange must happen

It gives me great pleasure to be in a position to address all POA members via this Gatelodge Extra edition that celebrates our successful March and Rally on March 20, 2019.

This was an opportunity for POA members to highlight to the general public and politicians the unjust reform of pensions that has increased our retirement age to 68, whilst dealing with unprecedented levels of violence. Without doubt we are a frontline, uniformed service that deals regularly with emergencies. We are an essential public service that deserves to be treated as such. I was proud to lead the march and thank all members for giving up their spare time to attend.

We had a plethora of very influential politicians

address the rally and I am personally grateful that such eminent politicians such as Dennis Skinner, John McDonnell, Richard Burgon, Imran Hussain, Liz Saville Roberts, Chris Stephens, Khalid Mahmood, Mary Glindon, Ian Lavery, Laura Pidcock and Mohammad Yasin took time out of their busy schedules to support the POA. My thanks also to all the admin and back room staff who made the day a success.

Events like this can only get bigger and better and I would encourage all members to speak to those that attended.

Enjoy this special edition of Gatelodge and see you all for our next rally!

All the best.

Mark FairhurstNational Chair

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68 too late, violence must not be tolerated

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Proud stand side by side with POA members, friends and politicians, privileged to listen to MPs and others standing up for POA members rights

On the March 20, 2019 proud POA members marched from Trafalgar Square stopping at Downing Street and then Parliament. With a little time to use

up before our rally at the Central Methodist Hall it was decided to take a detour and march down to the Ministry of Justice and hold a demonstration outside of Petty France.

The General public were very supportive tooting their vehicle horns and POA members even engaged with Brexiteers and Remainers outside Parliament and at least the Brexiteers and Remainers were united in support of POA members which was heartening.

It had been five years since we ventured on such a march and rally. When the National Chairman Mark Fairhurst suggested doing another one, as General Secretary I was happy to lead on the administrative side to organise and put everything in place. I couldn’t possibly have structured this by myself therefore over a period of 6 months the detail and the strategy were put together. I want to thank Joe Simpson Deputy General Secretary, all the Full Time Officers, along with the support staff and our political partner Charley Allan and Research Officer Steve Lewis. Without that team working behind the scenes it would not have been possible.

The march was very effective, and the rally produced some excellent speeches in support of our issues regarding Violence, Pension Age and Privatisation. The feedback was important to obtain from those who attended, and the NEC stated on the whole the day was portrayed as a success by the POA members that they had spoken to on the day. I believe the video produced by the daughter of Mark Fairhurst was hard hitting and extremely effective to demonstrate the violence that our members have to endure. We mustn’t forget the effects the violence has on our members families who also witness the severe physical injuries and indeed the mental anguish that their loved ones suffer from whilst at work.

That is why this march and rally should be viewed as a beginning of a strategy rather than the end and we need to collectively build on this start.

Thank you to all members who supported their union on the day of the event, and we have now got the platform to strive forward and work together in order to achieve outcomes for our members on those core themes.

Steve GillanGeneral Secretary

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Charley Allan

Parliamentary support for POA campaigns is reaching a critical mass. The soaring violence facing prison officers is regularly denounced by MPs from across the political spectrum, while there’s widespread anger and disgust at

a cruelly high retirement age of 68. But it’s the government’s disgraceful privatisation agenda that is

under the greatest threat from Parliament – and the general public. Quite simply, private prisons are a massive vote-loser, and even Ministers are finding it difficult to defend an ideology that encourages making money out of incarceration.

Our entire justice system – from arrest, to trial, incarceration and rehabilitation – has been crippled by austerity and poisoned by the profit motive, and the ruling Conservatives are worried about losing their reputation as the party of law and order.

We all know you can’t do justice on the cheap, but prisons are in the spotlight like never before – especially the 14 private prisons in England and Wales. As speaker after speaker at March’s inspiring rally made clear, the state’s “step-in” last August at HMP Birmingham – the first publicly built, owned and operated jail in the UK to be transferred to the private sector – put the prison privateers on notice.

Hundreds of prisoners were shipped out of Birmingham, while scores of officers were shipped in – which begs the question, what will it take for Ministers to address the chronic overcrowding and understaffing at other private prisons, and many public prisons too?

Less than a fortnight after the POA took the fight against prison privatisation right to the heart of Westminster, the government announced that G4S would be permanently stripped of its license to run Birmingham.

This should mark a turning point in the campaign to bring all prisons

back into public ownership. This is the government – and G4S – admitting that the private sector can’t perform to the same level as the public sector, and that privateers simply can’t run difficult prisons.

Yet G4S has been shortlisted to run the proposed new private prisons at Wellingborough and Glen Parva, to be built with public money before handing over to the private sector – despite its record of failure and ongoing investigation by the Serious Fraud Office for overcharging the Ministry of Justice – while the public sector has been banned from even bidding.

This blinkered ideological obsession with privatisation is too much for even some committed champions of the private sector. Writing in the Financial Times in April, former Thatcherite minister Malcolm Rifkind called privatisation “one of the great success stories of the past 40 years” – but insisted: “Prisons are different.”

He explains his “opposition is based on an issue of fundamental principle” and that “for prison officers to be employees of, and answerable to, private companies remains no more appropriate than it would be to have private police officers, private soldiers or private judges hearing criminal cases.”

He’s right, and voters know it. Now’s the time to make sure all MPs know it too.

If you want to make a real difference, write to your own MP and tell them what you think about prison privatisation – and ask your friends and family to write too. With rising pressure inside and outside of Parliament, together we can force the government to act. Now that Birmingham’s back in public hands, it’s one down, 13 to go!

Charley AllanJustice Unions Parliamentary Group organiser

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Ihave been a POA member for over 26 years and in my time have attended many rallies and marches including meeting members of parliament in the House of Commons and Lords, highlighting the issues faced by

prison workers in our prisons up and down the country.The 20th March was the first time that I witnessed MP’s from

several political parties queuing up to address members of this union in the Methodist Central Hall, this in itself was testament to the influence that the POA has managed to bring to bear in fighting for our terms conditions and safety for all in our establishments.

It was even more satisfying to hear senior members of the Labour party expound their party commitment in a public forum to;n reinstate our trade union rights by repealing 127 of the Criminal

Justice Act, returning our rights to take industrial action. n Bring our pension age in to line with the other frontline

operational services – 60!n Cease all privatisation of our prisons including returning private

prison contracts back into public ownership and eradicating all other private prison contracts.Yes I can hear many of our members saying that we have heard

all this before from the Labour party and also yes, the Labour party privatised more public sector prisons than any other party, however,

this is the first time that MP after MP gave the same commitment in public and recorded on camera! It is because of this that I truly believe that should they get into power at the next general election then they will uphold their commitments to us.

Unfortunately, I have to say that there were only about 300 members on the day and considering the themes of ‘68 is too late’ and ‘stop the violence in our prisons, hospitals, training centres etc’ I was hopeful that there would have been many more.

Gordon Henderson MP Sheppey and Sittingbourne (Conservative) joined us on the march as he does not believe in the privatisation of prisons, believes that 68 is too late and that workers in prisons etc must be safe through reducing the violence.

This was just the beginning of our strategy with the launch of our DVD showing the violence that we are subjected to on an almost daily basis. Copies of the DVD have been sent to every branch and hopefully every sitting MP.

A truly momentous day!THIS IS JUST THE START OF OUR STRATEGY NOT THE END.

SUPPORT US IN OUR FIGHT!!

Dave CookPOA NEC

Dave CookThe campaign has to gain momentum. POA members must ensure

their concerns are raised and voices heard

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From one crumbling, 19th century building desperately unsuitable for its 21st century purpose to another: I bring you the story of how a grateful MP escaped Westminster for the rationality, professionalism, kindness and humanity of people at HMP Swansea.

By the time you read this, chances are I’ll have finished my stint as one of the first cohort of MPs to take up the challenge of the Prison Service Parliamentary Scheme.

It was thought up in collaboration with the POA when we were struggling with how to get a better understanding of what happens behind prison walls out among MPs, and, through them, to the public at large. Although I’d visited prisons before, what had struck me was how superficial an impression MPs often get: a choreographed, managed flying visit to see what we’re supposed to see and listen to who we’re supposed to hear.

The idea is to shadow prison officers and other prison staff, and spend time properly talking to people about the work they do on the wings and the landings. And, boy, can prison officers talk. It’s meant to be a full-on experience: they even gave me keys (although I embarrassed myself with the intricacies of the key cabinet, hashtag and fingerprint combo).

PRISON LIFE IS A REALITY FOR MANYSome men at Swansea seemed resigned to prison stints as part of the shifting backdrop of their chaotic lives, for others it was a desperate, terrifying change in circumstances, and for yet others – sadly – their Victorian brick cell was the safest place in the world for them to be. And the whole experience begging the question – how does punitive loss of liberty balance up with the opportunity to release these prisoners, and their communities, from the grind of re-offending? As these men move through the criminal justice system from remand through imprisonment to probation, what are the critical success factors that might break the circle? What I was told is that three things are key: a place to live upon release, a return to family or a sense of belonging, and a life line to achievement, be that work or education. And how time in prison may also provide the means to enable such success: health treatments for Hepatitis C, basic qualifications in construction, the maintenance of family links.

Of course – as the POA warned me – there were shocking experiences: a dirty protest; an at-height incident; the crimes committed, ranging from stark horror to utter banality; the tragic stories of deaths in custody; the ubiquitous mental health issues played out in technicolour by addictions. The unnecessary failures of state agencies: prisoners’ vulnerability to loss of housing and benefits, men being released with tents back on the streets.

But what remains is the sense of good people doing their best with the bare-bone resources available to them, and how the work of prison staff cries out for proper public recognition.

And thanks to Sophie, Ben, Rhodri, Bev, Tony, Jo and Graham, and everyone else who’s been so patient and kind. Of course, resources matter - and it’s my job as a backbench MP to hold any government to account at each and every opportunity

until they match resources to need - but good people always matter most.

Liz Saville-Roberts MP

Real life work experience

Official portrait of Liz Saville Roberts © commons.wikimedia.org

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Dave Todd

A huge thank you to the membership who turned up, what a proud day.The promises given by the opposition were there for all to hear, retirement at 60,

trade union rights reinstated and no more privatisation.This support was cross party. My old Tory MP joined us at the head of the march

with a message to you all that he supports our campaign. He will also promote this on his Facebook page.

The speeches in the Methodist Hall should give hope and a real belief that we will achieve our goals.We are an Apolitical union but ask yourself, when was the last time you saw an opposition

leader wearing a POA lapel badge during Prime Ministers’ Questions?

Dave Todd National Vice Chair

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As Shadow Secretary of State for Justice, I was proud to address the packed POA rally in March. It was important to have such a visible show of opposition to the way our prisons and valued staff are being treated by this Conservative government.

Our prisons are now national news but for all the wrong reasons. Tory austerity has unleashed a dangerous race to the bottom in our prisons, with record levels of violence leading to an assault on an officer every hour.

This can only be turned around by working closely with the POA and its members. You are the ones on the front line trying to deal with the dire consequences of the government’s slashing of staff and budgets.

That’s why Labour has backed POA demands for better protection at work. And that’s why we have repeatedly called on the government to get around the table and talk – instead of running off to court when officers take action in defence of their safety. And that’s why a Labour government will ensure that prison officers have proper trade union rights.

In the face of the prisons emergency – it has gone way beyond a crisis – the Tories have finally been forced to recruit more officers. Every new officer is welcome, but there are still 2,000 fewer than in 2010. Tory cuts mean tens of thousands of hours of experience lost for good – creating a dangerous cocktail of inexperienced staff and experienced prisoners.

Where is the plan to keep long-serving officers who know best how to help prisoners and keep prisons safe? Will below inflation pay rises help with retention? Of course not. Will forcing people to work until they are 68 help with retention? Of course not.

Nor does the solution lie with handing over wheelbarrows of cash to the private sector to solve this crisis. Sadly, the Tories don’t appear to be learning the lessons of their dangerous

fixation with handing over large swathes of our justice system to the private sector to cover up for the slashing of prison budgets.

WE CAN STOP PRIVATISATION OF PRISONSIt is right that HMP Birmingham has finally been taken off G4S and returned to the public sector. Yet the government is stubbornly continuing with plans for even more privately run jails.

Privatisation always means cut corners, budgets stripped to the bone and inadequate staffing levels, with overworked staff asked to do more and more on less and less. Just how bad does it have to get before this government ends its blinkered obsession with the private sector?

So Labour will put an end not just to cuts to staffing and budgets but also to private companies treating our prisons as a get-rich-quick scheme.

In the meantime, the government needs to stop tinkering at the edges. Labour has put five demands to the government to tackle the prisons emergency: a special budget to make prisons safe and return staffing to pre-austerity levels; a national plan to retain experienced officers; action to end overcrowding; no more wasting resources on useless super-short sentences; and an end to the private sector creaming off vital resources that should be invested in our prisons and staff.

If the Tories can’t deliver a plan to turn our prisons around, then Labour stands ready to step in and repair the damage.

Richard Burgon MP

Politicians can change prisons

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Mick Pimblett

I attended the last POA March and Rally five years ago as a Branch Official. It was my pleasure to attend this year’s POA March and Rally as a Full Time Officer of this Union.

Five long years where POA Members have suffered the consequences of this Government’s ideological policies. How much more evidence does this Government need

to recognise that their failed prisons experiment is no longer sustainable? Our members working in prisons have suffered violence, job cuts, unreasonable workloads, stress and poor working environments because of the failure by HMPPS to effectively understand the work that they do.

We need a publicly owned Prison Service which is prepared to tackle violence in the workplace, treat staff with respect and decency and we also need a retirement age of 60. I believe that this March and Rally has gone a long way to helping us achieve these objectives.

Mick PimblettAssistant General Secretary

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Although there are no prisons in my constituency of North West Durham, I do have many constituents who are prison officers, and whether it’s face-to-face, via email or social media, they tell me that they feel like forgotten public servants. At a time of spiralling violence in our prisons,

the march of privatisation and a massive erosion of rights for prison officers, it’s vital that all MPs listen to the POA and prison officers.

Prison staff suffer more than 10,000 attacks a year. That means that, on average, 28 are assaulted every day, whilst merely doing their job. Last year, there were over a 1,000 “serious assaults” on staff. I’ve been to HMP Frankland in my neighbouring constituency and what I saw there opened my eyes. I understand that it takes strength, both physical and mental, to work in those conditions, surrounded by violence and threats.

RESPECTING THE WORK OF FRONTLINE PRISON STAFFOf course, this increasingly hostile and violent environment has been building at a time when prison officer numbers have been slashed and the two things are linked: the loss of 70,000 years of officer experience can’t happen without there being consequences and a panicked recruitment drive can’t paper over those cracks.

Prison officers are a valuable public service and should be treated as such. That starts with being treated with respect and dignity by the Ministry of Justice. 68 is too late to be retiring: prison work is physical, unrelenting and to expect people to work through pain, ill health and the challenging conditions we see in many prisons is simply disgraceful.

The decision to increase the retirement age from 60 to 68 shows the disdain that those in power, and this Government in particular, have for the service. People have been cheated out of a decent retirement. We are not just workers; we are not just put on this earth to work and people deserve some dignity in retirement.

Of course, the wider context here - of the job losses, the increasing violence and the demoralisation that prison officers feel - is privatisation. Figures show that risks are higher in private prisons, where corners are being cut. That is the market, that’s what happens. And we must reverse that, if we are going to put people at the centre of this service again.

As a party, Labour will listen – and we are determined to begin the process of turning this downward spiral of violence, disappearing pensions, rights and

morale on its head. If Labour are elected, we will give prison staff the power to bargain for their pay, terms and conditions again and in Government, we will give

prison officers the right to strike. The shift in the balance power, from employers to workers, that you may have

heard the Labour leadership talk about, that needs to happen within prisons too: they must be working environments that really look after worker’s welfare, both physical and mental. No more being taken for granted, prison officers should be granted the respect their public service deserves.

Laura Pidcock MP

"POA should be granted the respect

they deserve"

Official portrait of Laura Pidcock © commons.wikimedia.org

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Imran Hussain MP

It is impossible to doubt, right now, that our prisons are now more violent and more dangerous than ever, and that there is an emergency within them, with extraordinary levels of violence, a rising

number of assaults on both other prisoners and staff, and rising incidents of self-harm.

Indeed, the latest figures show that in the year to September 2018, there were over 30,000 assaults in our prisons and over 10,000 assaults against prison officers. But I don’t need to tell prison officers reading this that, as for officers in prisons, these aren’t numbers. Each of them is a real story, a real person and a real incident. They’ve seen colleagues abused and assaulted by prisoners, if they’ve not been victims themselves.

This shouldn’t be the case, and the bottom line is that we shouldn’t be seeing riots in our prisons, we shouldn’t be such high levels of violence, and we shouldn’t be putting hardworking officers in danger. No one should go to work knowing that they may get assaulted today, and prison officers are no exception, but sadly, that is the situation they face.

When we look at the harm that has been done by this Tory Government to the prison officer workforce, both in numbers and their treatment, it is easy to understand why this dramatic fall in safety is taking place and why the Government were repeatedly warned about the damage they were doing.

Since 2010, the Tories have slashed the number of prison officers by the thousands after ideological cuts to budgets in the name of austerity, with over 6,500 frontline officers lost between 2010 and 2015, and a workforce that is still short of 2010 figures by around 2,000 officers. Even amongst Band 2 Support Officers who play just as important a role in our prisons, 3,000 officers have been lost.

Prison officers all know someone who longer works alongside them, someone who was forced out by cuts or someone left with no choice but to leave in the face of rising violence and an uncaring government.

The problems in our prisons are stark for all to see, but rather than address them, the Government have chosen to do little. They promise new equipment and make flash announcements about technology, but this does not make up for the loss of officers, and the huge loss of experienced officers who they have neglected and undervalued. There is simply no substitute for a strong workforce in our prisons.

The only way that we can bring safety and order back into our prisons is to ensure that there are more officers on the balconies with experience and training, and ensure that, as the next Labour government will do, the interests of hardworking prison officers are made the priority that they deserve to be.

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Positive change has to be the reality

It was a pleasure and a privilege to address the POA rally at Central Methodist Hall on Wednesday 20 March. Hundreds of officers had marched through Westminster and gave an impromptu demonstration at the Ministry of Justice. They were marching to demonstrate against the ridiculously high retirement

age of 68, the ever-increasing levels of violence seen in our prisons and increased privatisation of the prison service – and I support them completely in their demands.

I sit in Parliament as a Labour Peer and I co-chair the Justice Unions Parliamentary Group with the Plaid Cymru MP Liz Saville Roberts. The JUPG provides a focus and platform to raise issues that affect people who work in the criminal justice system. We have over 70 cross-party parliamentarians from both Houses as members. As well as the POA, we also seek to represent the interests of the Police Federation, Napo, PCS and UCU.

A PRISON SYSTEM IN CRISISOur prison system is dealing with the consequences of years of austerity. Savage cuts to local authority budgets have led to less support for people living at the margins of society. Drug and alcohol addiction, family breakdown and a lack of mental health support have all played their part in making our prisons more dangerous for those who work there and less rehabilitative for the prisoners themselves. I visit prisons several times a year and they are often on lock down due to low staffing levels. The safest way to contain relatively minor incidents is to lock prisoners in their cells while the incident is dealt with.

The number of assaults in prisons in England & Wales has more than doubled over the past decade and the assaults against prison staff has also doubled.

But these overall figures mask more disturbing trends, namely over the same period the assaults with weapons improvised from glass or ceramics have increased

fourfold. Also, the number of sexual assaults has increased threefold. Prison officers also must deal regularly with self-harming by offenders, while the proportion of female

self-harmers remains fairly constant, but the proportion of male self-harmers has doubled in the last ten years.The prison service is less in the public eye than the police, the armed forces and other

emergency services. But there is no doubt the public would expect prison officers to be paid and given terms of service comparable to the other services on which our country depends.

Prison officers do a difficult job that requires patience, understanding and bravery. It is in our interests, as citizens, that they are given the time and support to do their job effectively – to increase safety, to increase rehabilitation, for the benefit of officers, prisoners and society as a whole.

Lord Ponsonby of ShulbredeOfficial portrait of Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede © beta.parliament.uk

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Sarah Rigby

A big thank you to all of the POA members who gave up their own time to attend the March and Rally. It really was impressive to see so many of you there.

It was a positive day and it was encouraging to hear some supportive words from the many different MPs who attended and spoke to us. We can only hope we get

the opportunity to hold them to account and that they deliver what they promised.I hope everyone enjoyed the day as much as I did. We did the POA proud!

Sarah RigbyPOA NECSouth West area

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