Decision Maker: Director for Safer and Stronger Communities, GM Deputy Mayor, Group Finance Officer
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
The current 3D Custody Improvement Programme
has highlighted a gap in support for young people in police custody
at risk of violence (perpetrator or victim). The VRU / Police and
current L & D service have been collaborating to find a
solution, and the intention is additional provision of up to 3
youth Navigators to service a pilot at Central Park custody
facility (identified via demand profile). This collaboration will
see funding from the existing 3D Custody project £36K, VRU CJ
£36K and NHS (L&D) £40K.
The pilot will review the current referral process for young people
into
services, provide appropriate support either on site or away from
custody, and contribute towards the review of child attendance /
voluntary attendance for interviews. £72,000 of the funding
will be used to deliver the Navigators, with the remainder of the
funding allocated towards benchmarking and staged evaluation to be
carried out via Manchester Centre for Youth Studies within
Manchester Metropolitan University.
The VRU is seeking a contract variation to its
existing Navigator contract with Oasis UK to extend the current
Navigator service to include police custody for a 12-month pilot.
The current contract value is £1,323,646.00 and the current
contract end date is 31st March 2025; the VRU seeks to add
£112,000 to this contract to bring it to the new total of
£1,435,646 and seeks to extend the contract to 31st August
2025. A Decision Notice was previously signed in March 2024 to
permit the VRU to transfer £36,000 of its 2023/24 budget to
the FIM cost centre for this purpose.
Publication date: 29/10/2024
Date of decision: 24/10/2024