PSA and Community Corrections JCC Meeting report back

Please see below summary of the agenda items discussed at the first Joint Consultative Committee meeting of 2023. Community SAPOs The PSA raised the issue of SAPOs coming into Community Corrections following the community/custodial split announced as part of the current restructure. CSNSW referred to the announcement of 23 February 2023. The content of the email can be found here  and members can provide feedback…

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Attending Service NSW Offices to renew your Working with Children Check

Taronga management has advised the PSA that one hour of work time can be utilised to attend a Service NSW office to renew your Working with Children Check. It is recommended staff discuss and negotiate this with their supervisor to manage their time and work so they take the one hour at the beginning or end of the day to attend a local Service NSW…

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Non-Custodial Delegates Joint Consultative Committee meeting

Please find the below report back from the meeting held last week between your PSA delegates and Corrective Services (CSNSW). Restructure: Towards 2030 The PSA highlighted that there was no real certainty for members moving forward despite the restructure being announced more than five months ago in October 2022. This was creating a great deal of psychological stress to members. Questions put to CSNSW from…

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Role of the Delegate and Dealing with workplace issues training coming to the North Coast.

This two day training course will be run in a venue in the Ballina area 12 and 13 April. Are you a new Delegate or a member wanting to know what the role of the Delegate is? Are you an experienced Delegate and would like a refresher? Then come to this training. Members can attend 1 or both days depending on what suits their needs.…

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Ministry of Health data breach

The Ministry of Health (MOH) has advised the PSA of a data breach through Frontier Software. The breach is of historic information dating back to before the upgrade to StaffLink Payroll Systems. You can read the email HERE. There is more information HERE. The breach has impacted approximately 1600 current and past employees of the following agencies: NSW Ministry of Health Mental Health Review Tribunal…

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