Decision details

1. Travel for VRU Programme Manager, VRU Programme Support & VRU Civil Service Placement Colleague - The Home Office’s Violence Reduction programme is a 3 year funding agreement with VRU’s from March 2022-25. This national VRU conference hosted by London VRU will examine community-led aspects of VRU programme delivery and share challenges faced by VRU’s in delivering community-led interventions and explore community-led co-creation of VRU Comms content. This is intended to share best practice across the 20 national VRUs. This event was originally scheduled for 31st March but was recently rebooked, so train tickets could not be purchased more than 2 weeks prior.

2. Travel for VRU Victims Lead & VRU Comms Manager - In 2021/22 – GM VRU and Merseyside VRU worked in partnership with StreetDoctors to develop an app-based version of the StreetDoctors lifesaver programme. (Usually delivered face to face in schools but with cost
/resource and logistical implications). The app has been rolled out across GM, whilst we have awarded additional funding in financial year 22/23 to gain an additional 4400 logins for educational settings across GM. This national conference will help to shape & direct best use of the additional logins and delivery of the Streetdoctors programme in schools and further education establishments across GM.

3. Travel for VRU Victims Champion - The Serious Violence Duty 2022 came into effect in January 2023, placing statutory responsibilities on specified authorities within each PCC area to work together to tackle the root causes of serious violence. This event is intended as a launch to bring together lead officers from VRU’s and specified authorities across the country to dpresent and discuss best practice regarding implementation of the duty. The GM VRU is coordinating the 10 GM CSPs’ implementation of the Seirous Violence Duty as per the Deputy Mayor’s agreement at the February 2023 Violence Reduction Governance Board, and therefore the VRU Victim’s Champion (accompanying the VRU Director & Programme Manager as published in another recent travel Decision Notice) is best placed to attend the event and report on outcomes to the 10 GM CSPs. This Decision Notice covers funding for travel to the event; tickets to the event are free of charge

1. The Greater Manchester Violence Reduction Unit are seeking to make the following payment for Travel to a rescheduled National VRU Event hosted by London VRU:

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A payment to be made of £806.65 to book:

• x2 On Peak standard class return train tickets from Manchester to London for the VRU Programme Manager and VRU Civil Service Placement Colleague
• x1 On Peak standard class return ticket from Wigan to London for the VRU Programme Manager and VRU Programme Support.

These are standard fare peak day return tickets.

2. The Greater Manchester Violence Reduction Unit are seeking to make the following payment covering Travel & Accommodation for a national event hosted by Streetdoctors, a programme that the VRU has funded to commission interventions in Greater Manchester:

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A payment to be made of £392.78 to cover:

• Return train tickets from Manchester to London for both colleagues (VRU Victim’s Lead & VRU Communications Manager)
• 1 night’s hotel accommodation in London (1 room each for both colleagues).
• Zone 1 Tube passes- each per colleague per day (2 days total)

Travel tickets are standard fare, off peak return tickets whilst rooms are standard rate in chain hotels.

3. The Greater Manchester Violence Reduction Unit are seeking to make the following payment for Travel to a Serious Violence Duty Policing Conference:

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A payment to be made of £116.49 to book return train tickets from Manchester to Birmingham and 1 night’s hotel accommodation in Birmingham for the VRU Victims’ Champion. These are standard fare day return tickets.