Blunkett has good news for prison officers.DAVID Blunkett David Blunkett (born 6 June 1947) is a British Labour Party politician and has been Member of Parliament for Sheffield Brightside since 1987. Blind since birth and from a poor family, he rose to become Education Secretary from 1997 to 2001, and then Home Secretary from 2001 to arrives on Merseyside this morning to deliver a morale boosting speech at the prison officer union's annual conference in Southport. It is anticipated he will use the event to announce plans to withdraw a controversial law banning prison officers from taking industrial action. Security was tight last night as last minute preparations were being made for the Home Secretary to address 400 delegates in the resort's Theatre and FloralHallcomplex at 11am. Whitehall officials say Mr Blunkett plans to praise officers for their `hard work' in the face of overcrowding overcrowding overcrowding of animal accommodation. Many countries now publish codes of practice which define what the appropriate volumetric allowances should be for each species of animal when they are housed indoors. Breaches of these codes is overcrowding. . But the announcement regarding the strike law will sparkheateddebate at the week-long Prison Officers Association conference. The government is preparing to ditch a section of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act banning industrial action brought in by the last ConservativeGovernment in 1994. Ministers hope the prospect of a deal being reached with the POAmay influence other unions - like the firefighters' FBU FBU Fire Brigades Union FBU Fast Binding Update FBU Franc Burundais (national currency) FBU Federal Benefits Unit (Social Security, Medicare) FBU Faciliteiten Bedrijf Utrecht - to agree to modernisation in the public sector. The reform is being negotiated behind the scenes by Prison Service management and senior officials of the POA. It would include replacing annual salary awards with a three year pay deal linked to better training and more flexible working practices. HEALTH Secretary Alan Milburn is visiting the pounds 4.7m JubileeDay Surgery Centre, the hospital's new pounds 3m breast care and outpatients unit, at the Countess of Chester Countess of Chester may mean:
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