Motion
- Motion title
- All prison workers have the right to be safe at work
- Session
- 2020-2021
- Meeting link
- Interim FE conference
- Meeting date
- 12 December 2020
- Status
- Passed
- Motion
- D35
- Motion text
Conference notes the Safe inside report by JUPA in July 2019 recorded assaults on prison Staff in England and Wales increased by 21% to 10,231 and sexual assaults rose 37% to 138. A JUPA survey s also found that 25% had been victims of violence in the last 12 months. Adding that 53% reported exposure to psychoactive drugs and that 63% reported feeling unsafe at work.
Conference believes:
1. that all workers, regardless of workplaces have the right to feel safe and be free of physical and psychological injuries at work
2. that we would not accept workers and students learning in squalid classrooms, daily incidents with learners under the influence of NPS and threats against staff in other educational establishments.
Conference resolves for UCU to continue its work with JUPA and the Safe Inside Charter, in order that campaigning for properly resourced and adequately serviced prisons takes place.
- Proposing body
- Novus prison education
- Amended
- No
- Allocated to
- Further education committee (FEC)
- Notes
Administrative info
- Listing reference
- 2020/F/12-12/054/D35