Your union began consultation meetings with the Department on 4 July 2024 in relation to the restructures in Cyber Security, Partnerships, Projects and Insights (PPI), Procurement and Contact Centres and these will continue weekly for the foreseeable future.

It is proposed that Disaster and Recovery be removed as a Directorate with the work moving into PPI.  PPI will have 6 portfolios and there will be a reduction of 198 FTE roles.

Cyber Security is creating a Digital Forensics Team.  The Cyber Resilience Program is no longer being funded and so is being removed.

Procurement is becoming a new Directorate called Procurement and Commercial.

Contact centres has 6 clusters currently moving to skills profiles and is losing 32 Team Leader roles, 3 Centre Manager roles and 2 Snr Centre Manager roles.

Service has also advised that 6 Senior Executive Band (SEB) roles will go however that number is insignificant in what we believe to be a total reduction of 235 FTE roles across Service in this first wave.

Details are still being worked through however PSA has again stressed the need for ongoing staff to be the last to be impacted.  We have requested that management provide details of contract staff numbers and confirm that these will be first to go.

The PSA will fight every step of the way to ensure our members are protected and will be raising our concerns over these cuts urgently with the Minister.

We will keep members updated as we meet with management.  If you have further questions or concerns please contact member support on or 188 772 679 and quote reference number 222602