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you work for the police service in England and Wales or in Scotland
you work for the probation service in England and Wales
you work for the child and family courts advisory and support service

Police, probation and cafcass members are part of UNISON's Police and Justice Service Group. As the name suggests, this is a major grouping in the union of all our members who work in the police and justice services. With over 50,000 police and justice members, UNISON is one of the largest unions in the justice system.

The Police and Justice Service Group looks after your interests at work and provides the framework for you to get involved in the union as a member, as a representative or as a branch official. The Service Group works on a number of levels:

Police and Justice Conference: an annual three day event for police, probation and cafcass branch representatives to come together to democratically set the policy for UNISON in police and justice. Members can propose motions via their branch to the conference.

Police and Justice Service Group Executive: police, probation and cafcass members elect representatives to sit on the Police and Justice Service Group Executive (SGE).The Executive is accountable to members and to the annual Service Group Conference. It sets Service Group policy and makes decisions between conferences.

Sector Committees: the Service Group has a number of sector committees, which as the name suggests are responsible for UNISON's negotiating agenda on the four national negotiating bodies which determine pay and conditions. The four sectors are:

Police Staff Council (England and Wales)
Police Staff Council (Scotland)
Probation Service National Negotiating Council
CAFCASS

Each of these negotiating bodies is shadowed by a UNISON sector committee. These committees are elected by each UNISON region. There are two representatives per UNISON region on each sector committee.

How to use these web-pages?

There are dedicated pages for police, probation and cafcass members which you can click on above. We hope you find these pages informative and helpful

Latest news

UNISON Nottinghamshire police members to take strike action

(24 August 2011) Following the continued refusal by Nottinghamshire Police to agree to the repeated requests by UNISON to renegotiate the Force Management of Change Procedure (MOCP), yesterday (23 August 2011) UNISON issued formal notices to the Nottinghamshire Police Authority to inform the employer that it intended to call all its members out on strike for two days next week.

UNISON SLAMS 34,000 POLICE CUTS

UNISON has welcomed Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary's (HMIC) 'Adapting to Austerity' report, for laying bare the Government's plot to cut 34,000 police jobs. The UK's largest union is warning that this will lead to soaring crime, could devastate communities and fail to save cash.

2011 Probation Pay Claim

UNISON and Napo have submitted the following pay claim for 2011/12 to the Probation National Negotiating Council.

Windsor Pay Review

UNISON is aware that on 18 March Tom Winsor issued a follow up letter to police staff and officers headed: 'Police Pay Review - Effect on Individual Officers and Staff'. Tom Winsor has asked forces to forward the letter on to staff and officers. Your force may have sent it to you already.