Decision details

Established in October 2019, the Greater Manchester VRU is a team of subject leads and experts from Greater Manchester Police (GMP), Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA), Greater Manchester National Probation Service, Public Health, NHS, Education, Community Voluntary Sector, Victim’s Voice, Youth Justice and Local Authorities, addressing the underlying causes of violence and working together with communities to prevent it.

To date, the multi-agency partnership working approach has enabled the GM VRU to develop new and existing relationships with partners across a wide range of thematic areas to tackle serious violence in both GM and across the UK. The GM VRU is seeking to continue to fund it’s staff members to continue developing these programmes of work.

The partners will report to a VRU director and Partnership lead who are employed by the Greater Manchester Combined Authority.

The GM VRU allocate £ 450,000 in each financial year 2022/23 and 2023/24 for the continued provision of a multi-disciplinary VRU team in accordance with Home Office guidelines and principles of tackling Serious Violence. The make up of the team is set out below:

Internal Staff (GMCA)
Partnership Lead
Programme Support
Victims Champion
Communications Lead
Research Officer

External Staff - managed through secondment agreements
Education Lead (0.4 FTE) to be awarded to the College of Maths for provision from August 2022 onwards and managed through a separate decision for consultancy)
Payment to The Manchester College for the GMVRU’s previous Education lead (April – August 2022)
Youth Justice Lead (0.2 FTE) to be awarded to Positive Steps Oldham
Probation Lead (0.6 FTE) to be awarded to the National Probation Service
Clinical Lead (0.2 FTE) To be awarded to the Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Total: £900,000 (split at £450,000 for financial year 2022/23 & £450,000 for financial year 2023/24)