At Wednesday’s meeting of Napo Branch Chairs and Secretaries it was clear that the presentation earlier that day by senior Probation management at an all-staff to discuss the 2025-2026 Probation Pay Offer has caused significant anger.
Members were especially outraged at what they believed to be an attempt by some involved to coerce trade unions members to accept the deal by speculating on the possibility the offer could be withdrawn if not accepted by the trade unions. To be clear, this possibility has not been raised with the trade unions in communications around this pay offer.
As members would expect we have raised this urgently with HMPPS and they deny this was their intent. We have been assured by a senior HMPPS representative that there is no possibility of the pay offer being reduced if members vote to reject it.
It was said during the all-staff call that this event was being recorded so it could be viewed afterwards by staff. At time of writing it seems this recording has not yet been made available.