Brighton Hove and District Trades Council: The Probation Service: Public Safety or Private Profit?

Tuesday 30 July 2013

The Probation Service: Public Safety or Private Profit?

Surrey & Sussex Branch

Public Meeting

The Probation Service:

Public Safety or Private Profit?

Thursday 15^th August

7:00 pm

City College Pelham Street BN1 4FA

Guest Speakers

Caroline Lucas MP

Professor Paul Senior Director Hallam Centre Community Justice

Ian Lawrence General Secretary Napo

The Government plans to outsource 70% of the Probation Service’s work to private companies such as G4S and Serco. This will include supervision of ALL Low and Medium Risk Offenders.

Probation Trusts are not allowed to bid for their own work. We believe Justice and public protection should not be about profit. It should be about public safety, reducing reoffending, rehabilitation and preventing further victims.

We invite you to come along to this public meeting to hear more about these plans which will affect communities, residents and business of Surrey and Sussex. There will be ample opportunities for you to ask questions and share your own views.

What can you do?

Attend the public meeting

Sign the e-petition on the parliamentary website

http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/44403

View our short video, partly shot in Brighton at the Paddle Round the Pier Beach Festival. Search on Google or YouTube for “Grayling Sinks Probation Service” or go to

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hpl6U8SHtEo

For more details contact Napo Surrey and Sussex Branch at surreysussexnapo@outlook.com

Who are we and what do we do?

Trades union councils bring together trade unions to campaign around issues effecting working people in their workplaces and local communities.

Trades Union Councils consist of trade unions or branches of

trade unions which meet within the area covered by that council, or which have members working or living in the area.

A union branch will normally affiliate to the trades union council in the area in which it meets. Each branch will then send delegates to the trades union council's meetings. These branches pay an affiliation fee. Their delegates elect officers from amongst themselves to represent the views and priorities of the constituent branches and to take responsibility for working for and supporting the policy of Congress and the Trades Union Council (TUC) General Council. This is because trades union councils are registered with the TUC, rather than being entirely independent bodies. The Annual Conference of Trades Union Councils takes place over a May weekend.

Brighton Hove & District Trades Council was first formed in the function room above The Eagle pub in Gloucester Road, Brighton in 1890.

Aims and objectives

> Raise public awareness of rights at work and the union role in enforcing those rights.

> Promote organising and recruitment drives to build union membership.

> Support union and community campaigns for dignity and respect in the workplace and beyond.

With the threats of racism and fascism, changes in the labour market and debates over the future of public services, the trade union voice in the community is as important as ever.

The capacity of trades union councils to provide a local response and to organise trade unionists into coalitions with other progressive forces is crucial. They do this by providing services which keep local trade unionists up to date with developments within the wider trade union movement, and by taking up relevant local industrial and community issues.

Tuesday 30 July 2013

The Probation Service: Public Safety or Private Profit?

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