SCOTTISH MSPs have been urged to back a return to retirement at 60 for prison officers.

A review by Lord Hutton in 2011 raised their retirement age from 60 to 68 in what their union, the Prison Officers Association (POA), believes was an error gone uncorrected.

The POA is now calling on the Scottish government to both lobby its UK counterparts for officers’ retirement to be aligned with other uniformed services or to use devolved powers to allow Scottish officers to leave at 60 without detriment.