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The POA podcast — 86 episodes
Ask The Chair 3
Separation Centres
Boost for Right To Strike campaign
Branch Officials Training
Ask The Chair
Young Members and the POA
The 2025 Women's event
POA members' survey - the results
Ask The Chair 2
The POA and the Tolpuddle Martyrs
68 is too late - important campaign update
Drones and how we stop them
Ask The Chair
Pay 2026 update
POA at the TUC - Steve Gillan elected President
Tribunal win for Gatwick IRC members
POA member services: Chesterton Grant
Labour in government 1 year on
Members' benefits from POA Protect
PTSD - confronting the epidemic
Conference Review
The importance of Regime Management Plans
Behind the scenes at the POA
What makes a good governor?
Fixing buildings maintenance in prisons
Pay 2025 update
New Year message from the National Chair
POA and the Valley Parade Memorial Tournament
POA and Justice For Columbia
We want our trade union rights back!
The POA and the Prison Service Pay Review Body
The importance of reporting accidents and near-misses
Retired Members go from strength to strength
National Chair's briefing
New Government and Pay Review Body update
POA conference review
POA and the TUC Women's Conference
Prison overcrowding, the General Election and challenges for the new government
Getting it right on Health and Safety
Women's Networking event take 2!
Time to banish blades from prisons!
The POA Welfare Fund and Firefighters' Charity
Private Sector membership and organisation
The POA at Manston
The challenges of working in the Youth Custody Service (YCS)
New First Aid/Emergency First Aid standards explained
Union victory on Fitness Tests, and what's happening at Wandsworth?
The POA and political activity
Behind These Doors - in conversation with Alex South
Transferring to F&S? Here are the facts
Young Members and the POA
Dave Cook retrospective: 30 years of POA activism.
Why we need a Royal Commission into the Criminal Justice system
Conference review with Mark Fairhurst and Steve Gillan
Toolkit episode - the role and importance of Union Safety Representsatives
Behind the scenes with POA reps working in Secure Hospitals
Four-legged friends: Dog-handlers, their dogs and the POA
Operational Support Grades
The anti-strike law and the POA, featuring Mark Fairhurst, National Chair.
What POA legal services can do for you - and a new way to access the service
Women's Networking Event - a review
POA's Employment Law services - a key membership benefit
Sally Jameson - POA branch chair and parliamentary candidate
POA legal services - supporting members and their families
Immigration Crisis Special Edition
Legal services and union support if you are arrested
Supporting women in the workplace
A guide to the POA's legal services
The POA guide to Coroner's Court hearings
Working with and for members with disabilities
POA conference in review and why you should march on 18 June
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) - its impact on Prison Officers and the support available
POA - working for gender equality and better diversity and inclusivity
Menopause matters
Health and Safety and You
The POA's Political Fund
Health, safety and maintaining resilience for Prison Officers
Govt White Paper "a missed opportunity" but high hopes for new "Safe Inside" Bill
The Wandsworth Prison Museum - a tour of it's exhibits and stories with Stewart McLaughlin.
Feeling the benefit of POA membership
Same But Different - POA across the UK's devolved administrations
Finlay Spratt looks back on 30 years of POA service
Looking after members working in privatised prisons
Pension campaigns made clear
68 is too late!
POA social media upgrade trailer