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A convicted offender cleans the wall in the Hyde Park subway, in central London
BRITAIN’S labour movement threw its weight today behind a “counter-revolution” to reverse the failing and scandal-hit sell-off of the probation service.
Under the Tories’ Transforming Rehabilitation programme all but the most serious offenders were hived off to be dealt with by private contractors.
Earlier this year Parliament’s justice select committee issued a damning report on the privatisation, saying it was “unconvinced that Transforming Rehabilitation can deliver an effective or viable probation service.”
CWU leader DAVE WARD tells Ben Chacko a strategy to unite workers on class lines is needed – and sectoral collective bargaining must be at its heart
With 12,000 fewer teachers since 2010 and dwindling resources, Scotland’s schools desperately need investment to support diverse learners rather than empty promises from politicians, writes ANDREA BRADLEY
In the current climate, it is vital to bust the myths and put forward the case for a humane and decent social security system that supports people, argues FRAN HEATHCOTE