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.