Decision details
Programme Challenger funding
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
Purpose:
The reasons for the decision are:
£49,000 – The delivery of the Modern slavery and human
trafficking data and information contract is contributing to the 4P
approach to tackle this issue in Greater Manchester. It supports
the Challenger partnership to better understand what the threat
looks like so that prevention, responses and safeguarding is
improved.
£20,000 – Development of a Partnership Intelligence
Portal. This is based on a model developed by West Yorkshire
Police, and provides an effective mechanism for the FIB in GMP to
share relevant aspects of their intelligence collection plan with
partners, and receive in intelligence as a result, enabling
appropriate assessment and classification of that intelligence
within the FIB, to enable consideration of relevant action as a
result. This amount is carry forward from 2021/22. Changes to GMP
IT systems and the intelligence department delayed implementation
in the originally allocated financial year.
£15,000 – To target OCG hot spots and support place
based interventions in Manchester and Salford. The two Council
areas continue to represent the highest levels of SOC threat across
Greater Manchester. The funding contributes to primarily prevention
and safeguarding activity, including in 2021/22 targeted work with
young people at risk of involvement in serious criminality in North
Manchester and contribution to an employment programme for those
leaving custody in Salford.
£10,000 – To administer, support and develop the
Anti-Slavery NGO Forum. This was conducted previously by Stop the
Traffik and it is important that ownership of the forum remains in
the voluntary and community sector. The Forum remains a vital part
of the partnership landscape tackling modern slavery and human
trafficking, enable information regarding threats and trends to be
shared across organisations, and shared responses and activity to
be coordinated, where relevant.
£30,000 – Commissioning of a new phase of the Trapped
campaign, raising awareness of criminal exploitation across Greater
Manchester. Criminal exploitation accounts for the highest
proportion of new referrals into victim care support, and modern
slavery enquiries into GMP. The Trapped campaign will form an
important aspect of the ‘prevent’ approach to tackling
serious and organised crime in Greater Manchester.
£2,808 – To commission Carbon to design the refreshed
Greater Manchester Serious and Organised Crime Strategy 2022-2025
and Plan on a page, via a single quote process. This will align to
other Greater Manchester wide strategies in its design and enable
distribution across stakeholders.
£5,000 – Contribution to University of Manchester
Department of Criminology to complete an applied research project
across Greater Manchester to map pathways for cuckooing victims
across law enforcement, housing and adult social services
functions. This is seeking to address that is increasingly being
highlighted by local partnerships as a gap in knowledge and
understanding, which risks impacting victim care and support. The
independent nature of the mapping of the pathways will support an
accurate understanding of the opportunities and gaps, and will
enable key information to be fed into potential funding and
commissioning discussions.
£3,500 – To commission Research in Practice to deliver
a developmental workshop for Challenger/complex safeguarding
district teams and the VRU. Since the introduction of complex
safeguarding in 2018, the function of both these and Challenger
teams have evolved. The introduction of the Violence Reduction Unit
has brought and additional resource and policy implication, and the
workshop will support improved alignment of operationalising
strategies and plans.
£10,000 – Contribution to the Magpie partnership
(tackling counterfeit goods in Cheetham Hill) to commission and
deliver a communication strategy targeting the area and associated
criminality/concerns. Couterfeit criminality of both goods and
pharmaceuticals within the Cheetham Hill area of Manchester
represent a significant serious and organised crime threat. A
communications strategy is required to complement the continued
enforcement activity and support the prevent and protect agenda of
the Magpie Partnership.
£4,900 – Match funding Survivor Care bags. In 2021, a
total of 562 individuals were recorded as potential victims of
modern slavery or human trafficking in Greater Manchester. A number
of these were submitted to the National Referral Mechanism (NRM) to
enable support to be accessed, whilst the remaining were suspected
of being a victim by a first responder but did not want to be
submitted to the NRM and instead were submitted as an unnamed
potential victim under first responder’s duty to notify. 301
of these individuals were recorded as adults and 192 of these were
recorded as having a non-British nationality. Some of those
survivors who are identified will have nothing to call their own.
The care bags provide individuals with something they can keep and
take with them when they go into, for example, NRM provision,
enabling them to have those first steps of independence.
Decision:
A total of £150,208 of the total
Programme Challenger budget is allocated as follows:
£49,000 – Modern slavery and human trafficking data and
information contract, to be delivered by Trilateral Research
working with the University of Manchester. This programme of work
will build the knowledge base of the wider partnership in Greater
Manchester to inform prevention, disruption and safeguarding
activity. The total annual contract cost is £54,670.
£5,670 will be funded out of the Deputy Mayor’s
Investment Fund. This was awarded through a competitive tender
process in May 2021.
£20,000 – Development of a Partnership Intelligence
Portal to enable intelligence collection plans developed through
FIB Intelligence Teams linked to SOC and exploitation to be
communicated to a wide partnership audience and received in for
development. Commissioning will be undertaken by GMP, utilising
existing IT providers to ensure compatibility with their back
office systems. (carry forward from 2021/22 – changes to GMP
IT systems and Intelligence function delayed implementation).
£15,000 – To target OCG hot spots and support place
based interventions in Manchester and Salford (based on their
ongoing status as the two Districts in Greater Manchester with the
most significant SOC threat). This has been repeat funding since
2018 to Manchester City Council and Salford City Council to support
targeted activity undertaken to tackle the local SOC threat.
Commissioning is undertaken locally in consultation with Programme
Challenger.
£10,000 – To conduct an expression of interest process,
supported by the Police and Crime Procurement Business Partner, to
engage an existing member organisation of the Anti-Slavery NGO
Forum to administer, support and develop the forum. This was
conducted previously by Stop the Traffik and it is important that
ownership of the forum remains in the voluntary and community
sector. This amount is carry forward from 2021/22 spend.
£30,000 – Commissioning of a new phase of the Trapped
campaign, raising awareness of criminal exploitation across Greater
Manchester. Commissioning will be undertaken through the Challenger
Comms lead at GMCA, supported by Challenegr leads and partners.
£21,341 of this amount is carry forward form 2021/22
spend.
£2,808 – To commission Carbon to design the refreshed
Greater Manchester Serious and Organised Crime Strategy 2022-2025
and Plan on a page, via a single quote process.
£5,000 – Contribution to University of Manchester
Department of Criminology to complete an applied research project
across Greater Manchester to map pathways for cuckooing victims
across law enforcement, housing and adult social services
functions. This is supplementing an award of £15,000 made to
the department through an internal bidding process and enables the
project to be delivered across all ten Greater Manchester Boroughs.
The project will be completed between May 2022 and December
2022.
£3,500 – To commission Research in Practice to deliver
a developmental workshop for Challenger/complex safeguarding
district teams to support professional development and enable
improved application of joint working practices across functions to
tackle offending and safeguard potential victims. The workshop will
be delivered in July 2022.
£10,000 – Contribution to the Magpie partnership
(tackling counterfeit goods in Cheetham Hill) to enable the
Intellectual Property Office (IPO) to commission and deliver a
communication strategy targeting the area and associated
criminality/concerns. This will supplement the £80,000 being
allocated by the IPO.
£4,900 – Match funding to provide Survivor Care Bags to
potential victims of modern slavery identified by the Modern
Slavery Coordination Unit. Product donations and financial
contributions are being requested from the Modern Slavery Business
Network to provide 50 bags, and Programme Challenger will match
fund all contributions up to a total cost of £4,900.
Publication date: 08/08/2022
Date of decision: 30/05/2022