Decision Maker: Director for Police, Crime, Criminal Justice and Fire, GM Deputy Mayor, Treasurer GMCA
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
HMPPS approached GMCA in February 2022 having
identified an internal Reducing Reoffending budget underspend. The
addendum (attached) was agreed and signed on the 24th March 2022
which sets out the terms and conditions of this funding.
The Addendum sets out two funding areas to deliver in-year
(2021/22) capital and outcomes targets. The first funding area is
to assist reduce women’ re-offending and £1,000,000 was
allocated against this target. The second area of spend is
specifically limited to GMIRS providers of £400,000 for
capital investment to strengthen the offer of these providers for
people on probation.
Key stakeholders have agreed the funding allocations, including
GMCA and the relevant HMPPS departments. These proposals are in
line with Greater Manchester’s ambition to increase the
alignment of services to avoid fragmented delivery and to improve
support for people on probation by recognising and supporting
voluntary and community assets that already exist within Greater
Manchester.
HMPPS have identified an underspend and have approached regions to
identify resource and capital spend and GM is one of the three
identified areas to receive funding.
The allocation is in-year funding for 2021-22. However, in the case
of small and medium sized enterprises (SME) providers we have
secured agreement that capital investments can be purchased after
this date and then reconciled to this financial year through the
MOU and addendum with specific terms and conditions. GMCA finance
representative have been involved in all stages.
The funding conditions set out in the addendum cover two areas;
Reducing Women’s Reoffending and GMIRS Providers Capital
Investment.
Reducing reoffending allows for:-
• On-site support
• Emotional regulation that includes but is not limited to,
Dependency and recovery, health improvement offers for women and
the broader reducing reoffending landscape including restorative
justice, analytics, drugs early warning system.
• Off-site support
An asset register will be maintained to ensure all spend is against
agreed decisions and a final reconciliation can be undertaken once
the provider has purchased the items.
This spending plan reflects the urgency required to move the
programme forward at pace and ensures a continued balanced response
to reducing reoffending valuing the importance of GMIRS partners
and place-based, community-led approaches. All projects and
interventions are designed in line with evidence-based best
practice and will be monitored and evaluated through the
GMIRS.
Value will be created across GM through the enhanced funding
provided, capitalising on existing service provision already in
place and enhancing the service offer across all Women’s
Centre’s and GMIRS commissioned services.
A senior governance board for GMIRS oversees and scrutinises the
overall programme of work, including this spending plan.
To expedite the speed at which we can transfer funding across to
the providers it is proposed that funding against the Reducing
Women’s Re-offending and allocated GMIRS is released in now.
This is for a total of £1,071267.97. A separate Decision
Notice will be produced to provide clear financial governance and
audit for the remaining unallocated funds.
The Deputy Mayor agrees to the spending plan
of £1,071,267.97 from the grant received from HMPPS of
£1,400,000. The remaining funds will be allocated via a
separate decision notice.
The funding has been allocated as follows:-
FIM Outcomes supporting reducing women’s reoffending -
£668,000
Eve's Space Bolton - £35,659.00
Farida Centre Oldham - £16,115.80
GMWSA Greater Manchester - £33,491.00
Petrus Rochdale - £8,531.52
SWC Stockport - £49,775.00
TWFC Tameside - £38,012.63
TWP Salford- £42,987.05
Well Women Leigh - £42,590.00
WomenMATTA Manchester/Trafford - £48,567.57
WOW Bury - £38,538.40
CLI Greater Manchester - £49,000.00
Total £1,071,267.97
Publication date: 08/08/2022
Date of decision: 30/05/2022