EC Meeting March 2017

campaigning and organising. This is difficult as we have limited time and expertise to devote to this and options can be disproportionately expensive. 3 This BCGM believes that through the safe space provided by the GFTU, common challenges can be identified and common solutions explored, extending to shared commissioning and economies of scale in areas such as ICT, insurance and internal financial support, internal legal services, and aspects of HR support. 4 This principle can extend to shared commissioning of research into common bargaining challenges, with the GFTU brokering this via their network of academics. 5 Indeed, this BCGM believes the GFTU is uniquely placed to promote, co-ordinate and broker such sharing across affiliates.

Therefore, this BCGM calls upon the GFTU to:

A- include opportunities to specifically promote this sharing in the GFTU annual events programme.

B- create a working party of union sharing champions

Motion 5

NAPO

Domestic violence victims in the Family Court System

1 This BGCM welcomes the announcement of an emergency review of the Family Court system on the need to afford greater protection to the victims of Domestic Violence and the prevention of the situation where perpetrators may cross examine their victims at hearings. This practice serves only to re-victimise and passers the power to perpetrators in a system which is there to protect victims. This anomaly is already prohibited in the Criminal Courts.

This BGCM instructs the Executive Committee to

A - commission support and research from our associated academics on this important issue.

B - seek input by way of a survey of Napo members working in CAFCASS

C - seek an urgent approach from the legal professions and Women’s Aid with a view to assisting the GFTU in aiming to influence the outcomes of the review through Parliament.

Motion 6

NAPO

Probation reform and public safety

1 This BGCM is dismayed at the state of the Probation Service in England and Wales and the serious risk to public safety following the disastrous part-privatisation of the service under the Transforming Rehabilitation programme. An increase in serious further offences, and a number of other shortcomings have been highlighted in successive reports by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Probation. This position is not tenable, public safety is at risk and with further reforms planned in the

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