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The POA podcast — 86 episodes

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1

Ask The Chair 3

2

Separation Centres

3

Boost for Right To Strike campaign

4

Branch Officials Training

5

Ask The Chair

6

Young Members and the POA

7

The 2025 Women's event

8

POA members' survey - the results

9

Ask The Chair 2

10

The POA and the Tolpuddle Martyrs

11

68 is too late - important campaign update

12

Drones and how we stop them

13

Ask The Chair

14

Pay 2026 update

15

POA at the TUC - Steve Gillan elected President

16

Tribunal win for Gatwick IRC members

17

POA member services: Chesterton Grant

18

Labour in government 1 year on

19

Members' benefits from POA Protect

20

PTSD - confronting the epidemic

21

Conference Review

22

The importance of Regime Management Plans

23

Behind the scenes at the POA

24

What makes a good governor?

25

Fixing buildings maintenance in prisons

26

Pay 2025 update

27

New Year message from the National Chair

28

POA and the Valley Parade Memorial Tournament

29

POA and Justice For Columbia

30

We want our trade union rights back!

31

The POA and the Prison Service Pay Review Body

32

The importance of reporting accidents and near-misses

33

Retired Members go from strength to strength

34

National Chair's briefing

35

New Government and Pay Review Body update

36

POA conference review

37

POA and the TUC Women's Conference

38

Prison overcrowding, the General Election and challenges for the new government

39

Getting it right on Health and Safety

40

Women's Networking event take 2!

41

Time to banish blades from prisons!

42

The POA Welfare Fund and Firefighters' Charity

43

Private Sector membership and organisation

44

The POA at Manston

45

The challenges of working in the Youth Custody Service (YCS)

46

New First Aid/Emergency First Aid standards explained

47

Union victory on Fitness Tests, and what's happening at Wandsworth?

48

The POA and political activity

49

Behind These Doors - in conversation with Alex South

50

Transferring to F&S? Here are the facts

51

Young Members and the POA

52

Dave Cook retrospective: 30 years of POA activism.

53

Why we need a Royal Commission into the Criminal Justice system

54

Conference review with Mark Fairhurst and Steve Gillan

55

Toolkit episode - the role and importance of Union Safety Representsatives

56

Behind the scenes with POA reps working in Secure Hospitals

57

Four-legged friends: Dog-handlers, their dogs and the POA

58

Operational Support Grades

59

The anti-strike law and the POA, featuring Mark Fairhurst, National Chair.

60

What POA legal services can do for you - and a new way to access the service

61

Women's Networking Event - a review

62

POA's Employment Law services - a key membership benefit

63

Sally Jameson - POA branch chair and parliamentary candidate

64

POA legal services - supporting members and their families

65

Immigration Crisis Special Edition

66

Legal services and union support if you are arrested

67

Supporting women in the workplace

68

A guide to the POA's legal services

69

The POA guide to Coroner's Court hearings

70

Working with and for members with disabilities

71

POA conference in review and why you should march on 18 June

72

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) - its impact on Prison Officers and the support available

73

POA - working for gender equality and better diversity and inclusivity

74

Menopause matters

75

Health and Safety and You

76

The POA's Political Fund

77

Health, safety and maintaining resilience for Prison Officers

78

Govt White Paper "a missed opportunity" but high hopes for new "Safe Inside" Bill

79

The Wandsworth Prison Museum - a tour of it's exhibits and stories with Stewart McLaughlin.

80

Feeling the benefit of POA membership

81

Same But Different - POA across the UK's devolved administrations

82

Finlay Spratt looks back on 30 years of POA service

83

Looking after members working in privatised prisons

84

Pension campaigns made clear

85

68 is too late!

86

POA social media upgrade trailer