Napo Campaigns
Napo is a campaigning union and is a member of three cross party parliamentary groups. During the course of any one year, Napo tables hundreds of parliamentary questions, holds numerous meetings with MPs of all parties and publishes advice on legislation.
Napo promotes the professional values of Probation and Cafcass in negotiations with employers and government and defends the professional integrity of its members, for example, against misinformation in the press.
In the past few years Napo has sucessfully moved positive amendments to the Offender Managment Bill which prevented plans to break-up the Probation Service, has consistently exposed the problems of the shortage of resources, and publically highlighted the bureaucracy and workload problems faced by our members working in Probation and Cafcass.
Napo's current campaigns are:
Fight for Probation's Future
On 18 January, Napo published a briefing paper for parliamentarians, effectively calling for the the end of NOMS and the creation of two separate operational arms for Prisons and Probation. The paper detailed the extraordinary growth of the NOMS bureaucracy and the virtual disappearance of any Probation presence at the centre and launched Napo's new campaign to safeguard Probation and the future of the Service.
Fight the Cuts - Defend Probation
Napo launched the current anti-cuts campaign at the start of the year to alert parliamentarians, the press and the public to impact of the threatened £120 million cuts (15-20% of budgets) across the Probation Service by 2012.
Defend TPO jobs
Because of the cuts to Probation up to 300 Trainee Probation Officers, trained for 2 years at a cost of £100,000 per officer, are likely to face unemployment when they qualify this autumn. Napo is campaigning urgently to ensure these much needed and committed staff are employed in the Probation Service at the end of their training.
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Combating Fascism
Napo is campaigning alongside other anti-fascist and anti-racist campaign groups to combat fascism and the destructive presence of the far right.
Justice under Stress
Napo is a founder member of the Justice Forum a campaigning umbrella group for all the unions in the Justice Sector.Last year the Justice Forum launched the Justice Under Stress campaign - to fight for a proper resources for organisations across the justice system, against the threat of privatisation of services and to defend jobs.
Veterans in the CJS
Napo is campainging about the number of and lack of support for ex-armed services personnel caught up in the criminal justice system.
