This week’s meeting of your National Executive Committee saw a number of important decisions which means we can all go into the bank holidays with some good news for members.
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Next week’s meeting of Napo’s National Executive Committee (NEC) will be considering news on a number of key issues which will help determine the way that Napo engages with employers.
These will include the initial response to the ‘without prejudice’ proposals that the Probation Unions have submitted to the NNC Employers within the NPS and CRC’s who have all indicated that they wish to review their relationship with the unions in a way that reflects the reality of the post- TR position that we all find ourselves in.
Yesterday’s meeting of the National Negotiating Council saw a full and frank but highly productive discussion between the employers and ourselves over the job evaluation (JE) results that were published last week.
A pretty testing week for your team of Officials, as we went about our usual eclectic mix of activities which, for my part included a trip to visit members in Sheffield and Rotherham along with Ranjit on Tuesday, as part of the engagement strategy.
This Moj report presents findings from the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) written by Dr Alice Goisis, Dr Berkay Ozcan and Prof. Wendy Sigle from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
It describes variations in contact between children and non-resident parents, and use of court for settling contact or financial arrangements. The report also explores gaps in different child outcomes by their parents’ marital status and whether post-separation contact with non-resident parents is associated with children’s outcomes at age 11.
Many of our members have been saying that for years of course, but being personally billed as such immediately after the interview I did with BBC Radio 4 on Monday regarding the Prime Minister’s earlier speech on prison reform, was one of those broadcasting errors that I was happy to let go.
It’s not often that anyone could claim that a Parliamentary debate was riveting stuff, but I will claim a first in respect of the one which took place on Wednesday night on Prisons and Probation as a result of a motion tabled by the Opposition.
It was markedly different from many others I have witnessed and came on the back of three other debates involving Prisons and Probation that have taken place in the Lords and Commons over the last couple of weeks.
As we predicted even before the ink was dry on the CRC share sale contracts our members are now seeing the full extent of the real agenda behind the TR Programme.
