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
The Victim Services Strategic Review is
continuing to take place. The tender for the multi-crime Victim
Service will be released shortly and a new service is expected to
be in place by 1st December 2022. The further review of the tier 2
services underpinning this will commence in Autumn 2022, and it is
intended that a proposal for future commissioning will be in place
for 1st March 2023.
In this financial year the organisations had originally been funded
from 1st April – 30th September 2022. These are all services
funded from the MoJ victims grant – funding has been in place
since 2017/18 when a review of services was undertaken and
decisions around victims funding were made. All the services will
be reviewed as part of the second stage of the victims’
services review and to maintain stability / sustainability within
the support sector continuation of funding is required.
Therefore, it is recommended that the following services, currently
grant funded by GMCA, are extended for a further 6 months (1st
October 2022 – 31st March 2023) to align with this
process.
The services included in the 6-month extension are:
• Manchester Action on Street Health (MASH) -
£24,506
• Survivors Manchester - £40,976
• Trafford Rape Crisis - £11,250
• Greater Manchester Rape Crisis - £11,250
• Local Authority IDVA service provision -
£210,000
• LGBT IDVA (LGBT Foundation) - £12,500
• Project Choice - £30,000
• Guardian Project - £24,500
• Community Safety Trust (CST) - £14,058
• Greater Manchester Domestic Abuse Helpline Service
(Independent Choices) – £15,000
• LGBT Hate Crime Service (LGBT Foundation) -
£14,790
• City Hearts – Trafficking Support Service -
£10,000
Funding will also be provided to Just Psychology to finalise their
cultural consultants programme of work. £30k of funding was
provided through the victims’ budget in 2021/22 and it was
agreed a further £14,350 would be provided in 2022/23 to
enable the completion of this. This is one-off non-recurring
payment for 2022/23.
• Just Psychology - £14,350
Total funding of £433,80 via the MOJ Victims Budget for
2022/23.
Total funding to be approved - £433,180.
Grant agreements for funding will be issued to all organisations
funded through the MoJ Victims Core Grant.
The recommissioning of the GM Victims’
Service has commenced with a gate-way service expected to be in
place by 1st December 2022. Extending support services underpinning
this to align with this is crucial whilst this commissioning
exercise is underway. It is essential to maintain stability across
the sector and to continue to provide essential support to victims
in GM.
Publication date: 05/09/2022
Date of decision: 10/08/2022