Government pushes ahead with transfer of Welsh probation staff on 1 December

The government has confirmed that it pressing ahead with transferring Welsh offender management staff to the National Probation Service (NPS) on 1 December – although negotiations on the transfer are not completed.
UNSION had called for the transfer to be delayed to February next year to allow the talks to be finished.
But the prison and probation service confirmed last week that offender management staff who are working for the Wales community rehabilitation company will move to the NPS o