Decisions

The VRU communications strategy aims to reduce serious violence by increasing aspirations of young people in Greater Manchester and reassuring the public that the VRU is working together with partners and the community to address serious violence and its underlying causes.
The #SpeakingOutCouldSaveALife campaign focuses on the latter – the campaign reassures the public that we are working with partners to prevent knife crime in GM and asks the public to play a part by speaking out if they are concerned about a young person.
The first phase of the #SpeakingOutCouldSaveALife campaign was received well (with over 500,000 views), so the campaign has been continued with the aim of reaching more young people and parents across GM and encouraging them to speak out if they are concerned, including via out of home advertising.

The decision is that:

The GM VRU is seeking to award EY3 and Transport for Greater Manchester to deliver the following services:

EY3:

The development of five sets of targeted advertisements as part of the first phase of the #SpeakingOutCouldSaveALife media campaign - £7,500

The creation and delivery of media content for the second phase of the #SpeakingOutCouldSaveALife campaign - £9,700

Filming and video editing during the UniteHER event (an event ran by the GM VRU’s population health colleague) - £3,000

Filming and editing during the Round Midnight event (an event ran by the GM VRU’s education lead) - £2,000

Spend for social ads for the second phase of the #SpeakingOutCouldSaveA Life campaign - £5,000

TFGM:

Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) have allowed the GM VRU to use their advertising space to promote the #SpeakingOutCouldSaveALife campaign at a discounted price – this includes poster sites and bus interchange screens across Greater Manchester – £7,425.60


Total amount to be awarded to EY3 and TfGM – £34,625.60

The Manchester Art Gallery and the Manchester Population Health team have worked collaboratively to co-create and test a wellbeing project - the Art of Resilience - piloted with Manchester primary school children in 2021/22. The project, focused on trauma informed practice is part of Manchester's ambition to be an ACE aware and trauma informed City.

Following a successful implementation year with several primary schools the objective is to extend the offer to other primary schools in Manchester schools and the partners have approached the VRU to support the extension both financially and in the allocation of the project resources based on VRU dashboard data and GM contact network

The learning and good practice has been shared with the GM ACEs and trauma group by means of evaluation and feedback from participating schools.The consensus is the project is valued and delivers against the VRU and Trauma group objectives.

The Greater Manchester Violence Reduction Unit is to fund Manchester Art Gallery to support the continued delivery of the Art of Resilience project in partnership with the Greater Manchester Population Health team during the 2022/23 Academic Year (September 2022 until July 2023) The programme will be funded out of the VRU Serious Violence fund (Education delivery group budget line) worth £14,000.

The GM VRU have previously funded Manchester Art Gallery £14,000 to support the Art of Resilience programme out of the 2021/22 Serious Violence funding via an exemption form due to the unique services provided by the Gallery. This totals the funding amount to £28,000

• All organisations have submitted a quote for the cost of a learning offer that will meet the needs of pupils, parents and CPD for teaching colleagues.
• The programmes covers priority areas as identified in the serious violence action plan and the VRU Education delivery objectives.
• Each organisation is able to provide testimonials and positive feedback from previous similar sessions delivered in GM schools and colleges.

The Greater Manchester Violence Reduction Unit is to award harm reduction education providers a grant agreement to deliver targeted education to GM schools, PRUs and Colleges at the point of need, up to the value of £43,000
Funding below is indicative of anticipated demand within the 12 month period. July 2022 – July 2023

• Crucial Crew - £2000
• Stand Against Violence - £600
• New Broadwalk - youth hub - £10,000
• Alison Cope - £3200
• The Message - £3200
• 84Youth - £6000
• Harpur Mount wellbeing project £5,000

• Urban Pure Solutions (UPS) have provided a fully costed comprehensive learning offer that will meet the needs of pupils, parents and CPD for teaching colleagues.
• The programme covers priority areas as identified in the serious violence action plan and the Education delivery objectives.
• UPS director has lived experience and a strong professional background that brings unique value in relating to the needs of YP in alternative provision.

The Greater Manchester Violence Reduction Unit is seeking to award Urban Pure Solutions (UPS) £12,000 to deliver targeted education to GM Pupil Referral Units during the 2022/23 Academic Year (September 2022 – July 2023)

The reasons for the decision are:

The Greater Manchester Strategy recognises that the pandemic has disproportionately impacted our people and places, acknowledges that recovery will be tough. In Greater Manchester, we will make every effort to ensure that all our people are supported to live a good life, through all ages and stages in their lives. This includes a commitment to supporting our children and young people to be good learners, with any necessary family help, education recovery, wrap-around provision and health and wellbeing needs being met.

The Inequalities Commission and Build Back Fairer reports both emphasised the need for Greater Manchester to embed a preventative and ‘future generations’ approach. We need to ensure that Greater Manchester is meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

The GMCA is committed to prioritising work with children and young people, to share expertise and evidence of the success of prevention approaches and continue to build capacity and partnerships to further develop these approaches.

In June 2021, the VRU in partnership with the Innovation Hub held a Primary School Summit, to address growing anecdotal concerns from primary schools in GM that issues of intergenerational violence and knife carrying appeared to be increasingly prevalent and were affecting children at a younger age than had previously been the case.

Of those attendees working in schools 83% indicated that behaviour, particularly in respect to violence or threats of violence, had become worse. Furthermore, when the question was pitched in the context of communities, 90% felt that criminality involving violence, or the threat of violence had become worse.

A recommendation which arose from the Summit, was the recognition of the need to support effective transition between school phases and mentor schemes and ensure support is sustained as children transition to secondary school, drawing on existing good practice nationally and locally, to shape a GM model.

It should be recognised that Greater Manchester has some strong primary schools, and some well-developed family support in schools which works well with early help. However, it has been recognised that some families are facing their greatest challenges which require more support. In addition, there is currently minimal interventions which are aimed specifically at children transitioning into teenage years and secondary school who are at greater risk of disconnection.

A full competitive tender process has been undertaken, supported and moderated by procurement and Information Governance. Salford Foundation were the successful bidder, with an excellent offer to deliver this service.

The service will be contract managed by the Children and Young People’s Principal , and will be subject to ongoing evaluation by the GMCA evaluation partner.

The Deputy Mayor agrees to the funding allocation of £900,000 of VRU core funding to develop and deliver in partnership with schools and families, a programme of child centre, strength based, trauma informed, 1-2-1 support for the most vulnerable, and high-risk pupils and their families (including siblings), who are struggling for more targeted interventions as they transition between years 5, 6, and 7 within 10 pilot primary schools which are situated within North and East Manchester.

2022/23 - £300,000 (1 Sept 22 – 31 August 23)
2023/24 - £300,000
2024/25 - £300,000

The contract term with The Salford Foundation for year 1 will be for a 12-month period which will commence from contract award date, with an opportunity to extend by two further 12-month periods covering 2023/24 and 2024/25 (subject to continuation of receipt of Home Office Serious Violence funding to the GMCA).

This amount has been agreed by the Serious Violence Governance Board as well as key stakeholders, including GMCA senior leadership and the relevant Home Office departments.

The reasons for the decision are:

The MoJ confirmed allocations to PCCs based on the needs assessment submitted. Following the change in process and PCCs being given responsibility for allocating the funding we have allocated funding based on the priorities we identified for GM.

Successful bids align to these priorities and will enable us to build capability and capacity across the sector and begin to address gaps in service provision and develop partnership approaches to some of the challenges within the system.

GM’s priorities for SV are development of witness centres; supporting capability, capacity and interoperability between services; increasing diversity of support offers; increasing therapeutic support capacity and ; supporting capacity for complex cases.

GM’s priorities for DA are supporting diversity and inclusion and extending accessibility of services through this; stalking and harassment; coordination support and the interconnectivity between domestic abuse and sexual violence support services; supporting a problem solving approach to risk management and; tackling volume demand within the system, including complex repeats.

3-year funding commitments will enable organisations to recruit and retain staff and deliver more sustainable services over the spending review period.

In March 2022 the Ministry of Justice confirmed that nationally £147m of funding will be committed to over a multi-year period, until the end of 2024/25 for victim services. The multi-year commitment applies to the funding the MoJ provide PCCs to commission local victim support services – namely, £69.1m ‘core’ funding; £27m ringfenced funding for 700 ISVA/IDVA posts; £15.7m ringfenced funding for domestic abuse and sexual violence support services and a further £3.75m for the recruitment of 300 additional IDVA/ISVA posts by 2024/25.

As part of this additional funding PCCS had been required to submit an updated needs assessment in relation to domestic abuse and sexual violence support services. PCCs were required to undertake an expression of interest exercise and submit all bids to the MoJ for decision. However following submission of these there was a change in process and the MoJ confirmed allocation to PCCs based on the needs assessment.

Greater Manchester has been awarded an additional £731,273.47 p.a. for 2022/23, 2023/24 and 2024/25. The way this funding is allocated is a PCC decision, although all activity and the service provider must meet the necessary MoJ criteria, as set out in their original Police and Crime Commissioner Funding Allocation Guidance. Funding is ringfenced for DA and SV services. Organisations were asked to complete an expression of interest for this funding. These were assessed against the GM priorities and decisions made to fund based on these and how funding would be best used at a GM level to support our ambitions. The priorities were provided to organisations as part of the bidding process.

Funding will be allocated as follows:

Organisation and funding 2022/23 2023/24 2024/25 Total 3-year commitment
Survivors Manchester – SV comms and engagement post (separate decision notice for detail) £7000 £32,000 £34,000 £67,000
CAHN £30,000 £32,000 £34,000 £96,000
Olive Pathway £30,000 £32,000 £34,000 £96,000
Development of witness suites - Survivors Lead Provider on behalf of other including but not exclusive to CAHN (Caribbean & African Health Network) GM Rape Crisis, MASH (Manchester Action on Street Health), Fortalice £60,000 £62,000 £64,000 £186,000

Additional funding into the multi-crime gateway service (Victim support currently but the provider in future will be successful bidder through the recommissioning process) –additional DA/SV IVAS and CYP Programme Manager £75,000 £175,000 £175,000 £425,000
Victim multi-crime service communications / website redevelopment
£125,273.47 £0 £0 £125,273.47
GM Rape Crisis and The Pankhurst Trust (MWA) – developing therapeutic support offer £100,000, £102,000, £104,000 £306,000
MASIP / Stalking and harassment – lead provider The Pankhurst Trust (MWA) £70,000 £72,000 £74,000 £216,000
Independent Choices / Safety for Sisters – case work NRPF
£78,000 £80,000 £82,000 £240,000
Fort Alice (ISVA) £40,000 £42,000 £44,000 £126,000
Pankhurst Trust (MWA) Sexual Violence Harm Reduction Post
£31,000 £33,000 £35,000 £99,000
Stockport without Abuse (Male victims’ worker)
£25,000 £34,000 £36,000 £95,000
Advocacy after Fatal Domestic Abuse (AAFDA)
£25,000 £27,000 £29,000 £81,000
WaiYin £35,000 £37,000 £39,000 £111,000

Total
£731,273.47
£760,000
£784,000

All funding to organisations will be covered by a grant agreement. Monitoring takes place on a bi-annual basis through MoJ monitoring returns. We will also provide general oversight of funding and impact of this through the Sexual Violence Harm Reduction Group and the Victims Reassurance and Resilience Forum.

The reasons for the decision are:

The additional IDVA / ISVA capacity will enable more support to be provided to CYP across Greater Manchester and will also expand our specialist by-and-for provision. The continuation of posts secured in previous financial years means we can maintain service provision within our RASSO services, specifically additional CYP posts. GM support for the medium risk offer within local authorities will also be maintained.

This will continue to assist our victims’ services partners in supporting some of the most vulnerable victims in Greater Manchester, create additional capacity within services and help them cope with additional demand.

Importantly the confirmation of 3-years of funding from the MoJ will enable us to pass on this commitment to our partner organisations that funding will be in place until 31st March 2025. This will help to enable better staff recruitment and retention, continuity of service for victims and stability within the sector.

The decision is that:

In March 2022, the Ministry of Justice confirmed that nationally £147m of funding will be committed to over a multi-year period, until the end of 2024/25 for victim services. The multi-year commitment applies to the funding the MoJ provide PCCs to commission local victim support services – namely, £69.1m ‘core’ funding; £27m ringfenced funding for 700 ISVA/IDVA posts; £15.7m ringfenced funding for domestic abuse and sexual violence support services and a further £3.75m for the recruitment of 300 additional IDVA/ISVA posts by 2024/25.

For the funding secured in 2022/23 GM submitted an updated needs assessment to the MoJ. GM were required to submit all ISVA/IDVA bids to the MoJ for the final decision. Out of a total of 48 bids received GM have been allocated funding for 9 FTE IDVA/ISVA posts for the spending review period (2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25). The MoJ made the final decision on the posts we received funding for. Organisations expressions of interest were submitted to the MoJ as part of the needs assessment process.

As part of the multi-year commitment the MoJ extended the ISVA/ IDVA funding secured in financial years 2020/21 and 2021/21 has been confirmed for the spending review period. Previously GM submitted bids / expressions of interest into the MoJ for this funding and the funding secured will now be extended until 31st March 2025. To secure this funding we produced a needs assessment and identified organisations posts should sit within working with the VCSE sector and local authorities and using available data to make these decisions.

The funding will be allocated as outlined below.

Additional IDVA / ISVA posts (secured 2022)

Organisation 2022/23 2023/24 2024/25 Fund / position

Victim Support - Rochdale £38,166 £45,799 £45,799 CYP IDVA
Oldham Council £24,900 £49,800 £49,800 CHIDVA
SafeNet £26,108 £34,811 £34,811 CYP IDVA
Trafford Domestic Abuse Service (TDAS) £22,824 £30,432 £30,432 0.6 CYP IDVA
Endeavour £26,663 £35,551 £35,551 CYP IDVA
Salford Foundation (Safe in Salford Partnership) £21,979 £29,303 £29,303 0.6 YP IDVA
Stockport without Abuse £20,417 £35,000 £35,000 1 Stalking and Harassment IDVA
LGBT Foundation £49,253 £79,880 £79,880 1 LGBT ISVA
0.8 LGBT IDVA
Migdal Emunah £19,562 £29,342 £29,342 1 CYP ISVA

Total £249,872 £369,918 £369,918
9FTE

Continuation of funding IDVA/ISVA posts (secured 2020/21 and 2021/22)

Organisation 2023/24 2024/25 Fund / position
Bolton Council £41,099 £41,099 1 medium risk IDVA
Bury Council £41,099 £41,099 1 medium risk IDVA
Manchester Council £82,198 £82,198 1 medium risk IDVA & 1 high risk IDVA
Oldham Council £41,099 £41,099 1 medium risk IDVA
Rochdale Council £41,099 £41,099 1 medium risk IDVA
Salford Council £41,099 £41,099 1 medium risk IDVA
Stockport Council £41,099 £41,099 1 medium risk IDVA
Tameside Council £41,099 £41,099 1 medium risk IDVA
Trafford Council £41,099 £41,099 1 medium risk IDVA
Wigan Council £41,099 £41,099 1 medium risk IDVA
Manchester Women’s Aid £41,099 £41,099 1 ISVA
St Mary’s SARC £82,198 £82,198 2 CYP ISVAS
Migdal Emunah £40,000 £40,000 PT CYP & PT ISVA
GM Rape Crisis £40,000 £40,000 1 ISVA
Survivors Manchester £40,000 £40,000 1 ISVA
SARC £225,000 £225,000 6.6FTE ISVAS
TOTAL £920,386 £920,386 18.6FTE

All funding will be subject to a grant agreement with the relevant organisation.

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.

The reasons for the decision are:

A GM Sexual Violence Harm Reduction Group has been established which brings together support services to consider:
• Implications arising from the GM Sexual Violence problem profile
• Collaboration opportunities
• Increasing access to and diversity of services
• Developing problem solving approaches
• Better understanding of the link between domestic abuse and sexual violence
• Exploring issues of inclusion for identifying ‘hidden harm’ in communities and across protected characteristics such as males/females including the development of a community champions programme
• Advising on communications and awareness raising initiatives and programmes
• Ongoing impact of Covid

The Group have been consulted, and they have agreed that sharing communications and engagement resources will allow them: to be more resilient; develop proactive campaigns; increase awareness of services; consider prevention strategies; independently organise themselves and; engender sector joint working.

Having reviewed available options for the provision of the role, it was felt that in the interests of achieving the most impact / influence and delivering value for money, the role would be best positioned as an outsourced post within SV providers themselves rather than the GMCA recruiting in-house where there is segregation from practitioners and impact may be limited.

It was also felt that Survivors Manchester are best positioned to fulfil this role, as they already have a communications suite including software which can then be utilised by other services which will reduce duplication. They are also very well positioned to identify and extend staffing resources that can be deployed across the sector.

The funds are enabling, and the focus will be increasing access to support services for victims and survivors and diversifying offers of support.

Further funding will be subject to a bid to NHSE and/or CA Police Property Act Fund requirements.

Funds are provided to be received by Survivors Manchester on behalf of the GM Sexual Violence Harm Reduction Group to provide resources across the support service sector for coordination and engagement activity.

Commitment is for 3-year period – total envelope of £67k over 3 financial years funded by MOJ Victims Grant.
• 2022/23 £7k
• 2023/24 £30k
• 2024/25 £30k

The reasons for the decision are:

To achieve the goals and ambitions set out in the JRE Business Plan for the GM Youth Justice Transformation work programme it has been identified that additional capacity is required to assist with developing a comprehensive delivery plan and to undertake engagement across all youth justice services around the plan and support required to implement it.

The staffing resource will work directly with the Criminal Justice and Offenders Principal, the Children and Young People Principal and the Senior Policy and Partnership Officer for Youth Justice at the GMCA to support and expand the GM Youth Justice Transformation programme.

The role and the focus of the work will include:

• Develop the GM Youth Justice Transformation delivery plan underpinning the action plan.
• Develop a GM Youth Justice Strategy.
• Identify key milestones for the GM Youth Justice Transformation Programme.
• Undertake direct engagement with GM Youth Justice leads which will include identifying what additional support is required to deliver the plan.
• Organise development / training / engagement sessions for youth justice services around the delivery of the GM Youth Justice action plan.
• Producing quarterly updates re; the development and the delivery of the plan.

The existing Youth Justice MoU between the Deputy Mayor and the 10 GM Local Authorities acts as the governance and accountability mechanism for Youth Justice Transformation including funding provided. A spending plan will be agreed with the Lead DCS and attached to the MoU as an Annex. This will be updated annually or as required by the Deputy Mayor to ensure appropriate monitoring of spending. Progress and work will also be reviewed on a regular basis to ensure that it is delivering as required and this will be reported into the GMCA.

Manchester CC have identified support capacity to start delivery of the activity and have led on discussions with the Directors of Children’s’ Services Group.

£100,000 funding is provided to Manchester City Council to support the development of the GM Youth Justice Transformation Programme on behalf of the GMCA.

This will be used for staffing resource to assist with developing measures of success, engaging with partners and implementing the plan and as enabling funds including in-person events, training/community of practice sharing sessions and engagement work with children and young people’s voice.

Since its establishment in 2019, the GM VRU have devolved a large proportion of the Home Office Serious Violence Funding to the 10 GM CSPs, to utilise their existing partnerships and community knowledge to address SV within their local areas.

In the 2021/22, the CSP funded activities resulted in interventions being delivered to over 33,000 Young People across GM. The GM VRU intends to continue funding the positive work being delivered by the CSPs by providing funding for a further year.

In May 2022, the GM VRU wrote to the 10GM CSPs to announce that £150,000 would funding be made available (£200,000 for MCC) from the Serious Violence funding, under the condition that a spending plan be completed and submitted, with the endorsement of their respective Directors of Children Services and Public Health, for the approval of the GM VRU.

It was an expectation of the GM VRU that outcomes and activities commissioned by the CSPs should be monitored locally and reported back to the GM VRU. Furthermore, the CSPs were asked to ensure that the programmes and services commissioned for 2022/2023 are in line with the following areas of need which continue to feature within the VRU Strategic Needs Assessment:
Child and adolescent mental health and wellbeing.
Children and young people in Alternative Provision, at risk of exclusion or not accessing education, particularly where violence has been identified as a cause for concern.
Adverse childhood experiences and trauma-responsive activity.
Adolescent early help services, including drugs and alcohol services.
Youth engagement and provision, including community sports.
Support for parents who are concerned about their child becoming a victim or perpetrator of violent crime.
Transition for children and young people between primary schools, secondary schools and further education

As well as the above areas, the GM VRU also expected districts to apply following:
• Be data led by making full use of the GMCA VRU Violence Dashboard and Strategic Needs Assessment.
• Ensure that a minimum of 20% of funding is spent on ‘high impact’ interventions as defined by the Youth Endowment Fund Toolkit.
• Employ the principles of community-led approaches where opportunity presents, including co-designing and planning. Where community-led programmes exist within your area, we would encourage you to consider investing in successful initiatives which are being delivered by grass root organisations.
• Maintain positive and aspirational language in young person campaigns and avoid deterrent-based approaches (such as ‘scared straight’)
• Monitoring reports must be submitted to the VRU by Mid-October 2022 and April 2023 using the proforma requested by the VRU.
• Staff training to support delivery is allowed.
• Whilst funding of posts for violence reduction managers or front-line delivery workers is appropriate, administrative or analytical work should be absorbed within existing structures.

In addition to the CSP spending plan, the CSPs were required to provide a Summer Violence Prevention Action Plan following an announcement of a further £25,000 to be devolved to each area, to target prevention plans at areas, and young people of highest need, who are at risk of being involved in violence related incidents during the summer holiday period.

The Deputy Mayor agrees to award each Greater Manchester Community Safety Partnership (CSP) the below funding as part of the Devolved 2022/23 GM Violence Reduction Unit Serious Violence Funding;

CSP Devolved Funding £1,550,000
The GM VRU has agreed to continue to devolve £150,000 (£200,000 to the City of Manchester) to the 10 CSP areas across GM. The funding will be granted on the condition that the individual CSP plans are aligned to the wider strategic priorities of their authority and partners and are co-signed by Directors of Children’s Services and Population Health

Summer Suppression Offer £250,000
In addition to the CSP funding, the VRU will devolve a further £25,000 to each district to build on the successful Summer Suppression pilot which took place in Salford in 2021. The funding will be devolved to support the CSPs in utilising the Serious Violence Dashboard, to target the areas, and young people of highest need through investment in local Safe 4 Summer activities (which will include an evaluation).


Total funding amount to be devolved to CSPs: £1,800,000

The reasons for the decision are:

The current Navigator pilot has seen over 500 vulnerable young people supported since May 2021, with referrals from 4 hospitals, and since Oct 2021, community settings. This funding will increase the team from 7 to 12 full time Navigators, accepting referrals from all GM hospitals and expanding the community offer.
A full competitive tender process has been undertaken, supported and moderated by procurement and Information Governance. The current provider OasisUK were the successful bidder, with an excellent offer to enhance and expand the service and receive an anticipated 80 referrals per month.
The service will continue to be contract managed by the VRU Victim lead and will be subject to ongoing evaluation by the GMCA evaluation partner.

This decision will contribute to priorities of the Greater Manchester strategy in the following ways:
This programme of work will impact the following GM Strategies
• All four priorities in the Standing Together plan
• All priorities of the Greater Manchester Serious Violence Action Plan.
• The GM Integrated Health And Justice Strategy

The Deputy Mayor agrees to the funding allocation of £1,323,646 to continue an expanded hospital and community Navigator youth service for the period 1 Sept 2022 to 31 March 2025. (VRU core funding).
2022/23 - £298,886 (1 Sept ‘22 – 31 March ’23)
2023/24 - £512,380
2024/25 - £512,380

This amount has been agreed by the Serious Violence Governance Board as well as key stakeholders, including GMCA senior leadership and the relevant Home Office departments.

The strategic aim of VRUs communications plan is to reduce serious violence by increasing aspirations of young people in Greater Manchester, and reassuring the public that the VRU is working together with partners and the community to address serious violence and its underlying causes.

The communications objectives are to:
• Raise awareness of how Greater Manchester Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) is working together with partners and the community to address serious violence.
• Promote an alternative to violence by showcasing opportunities for people affected by violence and build aspirations for young people through campaigns and communications activity.
• Demonstrate the impact of the VRU in reducing serious violence, especially violence amongst young people.

The aim of this contract of work, is support the above objectives by amplifying the VRUs presence online and reach.

The content creation contract will:
- Provide a steady stream of high-quality content - at least three pieces per week – this could include written blog material, short video edits, social graphics etc.
- Provide a content plan/calendar for the year, with space built in for ad hoc requests/events/news, sometimes with short time frames
- Ensure our website and social channels are fresh and engaging
- Increase the number of people we reach with our communications, especially within our key target audience groups
- Use social ads to ensure certain messages reach certain audiences, including when community tensions are high/after a serious incident

The GM VRU awards EY3 Media to deliver the following services:

Content creation contract – regular content is required for VRU the website, blog and social channels for a period of 12 months for a total value of up to £75,000.

GMCA have run a competitive process and Fearless Adventures and DMA’s submissions were the highest scoring bidders within the 1.5 million budget.
2 submissions were received and sent to a full evaluation panel. The evaluation comprised of 3 parts, covering (80%) Quality, (10%) Social Value and (10%) Value for Money.

The Successful provider’s scores were deemed acceptable and comprehensive throughout their submission and offered the most economically advantageous tenders.

Following a competitive procurement process using GMCA’s Open Procurement Procedures, via The Chest, GMCA wishes to award a £499,928 contract to Fearless Adventures and a £154,427 contract to DMA (Data & Marketing Association). This is part of the Skills Bootcamps programme and will support over 700 learners to train into digital/tech roles during 2022/23.
Delivery is expected to start no later than end of August 2022. bootcamps must be no longer than 16 weeks and all delivery must have concluded by the end of March 2023 (with the potential for an extension dependent on good performance), and all contract activity and support must conclude no longer than 6 months after the conclusion of delivery.

This supplier provided the most economically advantageous tender which met the requirements of the project

The contract is awarded to Eric Wright Civil Engineering Limited

The reasons for the decision are:

The GMCA has held annual DHR learning events. The events in 2020 and 2021 were not held due to covid and therefore we will be holding an event in June 2022 to enable partners to come together to share learning.

This event supports the dissemination of learning and recommendations arising from domestic homicides across Greater Manchester, with the ambition to drive improvement across all agencies in their response to domestic abuse.

An amount of £1500 be provided to support GMCA holding a face-to-face Domestic Homicide Review event. The resource will be used for room hire, refreshments and other associated costs.
Since sign off this cost has now increased to £1807.20
Rationale for this is that we used an external venue for this as we could not find a meeting room in GMCA / GMP which would accommodate the numbers. We wanted this to hold up to 100 people due to the nature of the event and needing to invite a wide range of partners from each local authority, GMP and health and additionally as we have not held a learning event since 2019 and therefore it is essential this takes place. We’ve had good sign up from partners and therefore need to go ahead holding this externally.

In November 2019, The Mayor of Greater Manchester commissioned an independent assurance review into safeguarding practices in the borough of Oldham. The report has been published following a launch on the 20th June 2022.

The total cost of £9765.87 towards the launch of the publication of the CSE Independent Assurance review into safeguarding practices in Oldham report.

At the Annual General Meeting of the National Association of Legally
Qualified Chairs (NALQC) a resolution was passed that all members would be advised not to sit as chairs unless indemnity was strengthened by PCC’s.
It has been the view of most LQCs that the previous wording provided does not give adequate protection and they have sought to take out of the indemnity the words unless the act or omission is shown to have been in bad faith, reckless or is the product of gross and obvious irregularity for which panel members are responsible.
The NALQC Chair and others met with the Home Office on 10 November 2020 to raise the issue. The concerns of the NALQC have also been relayed to other interested parties, such as the APCC, the APACE and the Police Superintendents’ Association. The Home Office is considering legislative change to “cure” the problem, but this will take time. Pending any legislative change, the NALQC has given the advice as described above to its members.
APCC has worked with APACE, Home Office and the National Association of LQCs to develop a pragmatic solution and a form of wording for the indemnity which offers both LQCs and PCCs some reassurance. It offers LQCs assurance that they are covered for damages unless it is shown in a court or similar that they have acted in bad faith (this is similar to the wording of the magistrates' indemnity set out in the Courts Act 2003). It provides PCCs with a backstop to ensure that LQCs act professionally in their role as panel chair. The agreed wording is set out above.

To provide indemnity to Legally Qualified Chairs and Independent Panel Members of Police Misconduct Hearings arranged thus far for 2022/23 in accordance with the wording negotiated by APCC, APACE, and the National Association of LQCs as follows: -
In respect of the case of ....... which is to be held on ………. Greater
Manchester Combined Authority (the legal entity in which the property,
rights and liabilities of Police and Crime Commissioner for the Greater
Manchester Area are vested) agrees to indemnify you as the Legally
Qualified Chair/ Independent Panel Member in respect of any liabilities arising (including reasonable costs in connection with responding to legal proceedings) for anything done or omitted to be done by you in the discharge of your functions unless, having received representations or submissions by or on your behalf, you are proved in a court of law or other tribunal with appropriate jurisdiction to have acted in bad faith. Furthermore, in the event of your being held to have any liability for anything done or omitted to be done by another member of the Panel of which you are part, the Greater Manchester Combined Authority agrees to indemnify you in full in respect of any such liability.

To facilitate the process to procure a development partner the Joint Venture will need to appoint consultants for expert advice in undertaking the process in a legally compliant way. To date Savills have been appointed to facilitate the procurement process, whilst Shoosmiths have been appointed to provide external legal advice on the process. Both consultants have been appointed using a procurement complaint process. Funds will be utilised in the future to support the procurement process further and to finance planning approval. The regeneration of the GMP site will act as a catalyst for further redevelopment in the Civic Quarter of Trafford.

Before a private sector development partner is appointed the GMCA along with Trafford Council will need to finance legal, marketing and procurement costs. The estimated fee’s will be approximately £642,500. It was agreed at the Great Manchester Combined Authority meeting on the 26th November 2021 that these funds will be underwritten by police and crime reserves

1. the transfer of the GMP Chester Road Site to the Joint Venture Company be approved.
2. the Joint Venture between the GMCA, Trafford Council and a Developer Partner, on terms to be agreed, be approved.
3. the £642,500 of funding needed to appoint a development partner and obtain detailed planning consent for the scheme be approved.
4. pursuant to The Greater Manchester Combined Authority (Transfer of Police and Crime Commissioner Functions To The Mayor) Order 2017 authority be delegated in the following instances:

i) to the Chief Executive Officer, GMCA & TfGM and GMCA Treasurer to commence the procurement process and appoint a development partner.
ii) ii) to the Chief Executive Officer, GMCA & TfGM and GMCA Treasurer to agree appropriate legal agreements with Trafford Council.
iii) iii) to the GMCA Treasurer acting in conjunction with the GMCA Monitoring Officer to prepare and effect the necessary legal agreements.

To complete deployment of the business-critical Windows 10 Client services Project (Project 2).
The Windows 10 Programme consists of three projects, the first two having been commissioned in 2019:
(i) Project 1 (Infrastructure Services) – technical architecture, services and cloud platform deployment
(ii) Project 2 (Client Services) – deployment of devices and operational applications
(iii) Project 3 (Transformational Services) – realisation of business benefits of the new technology
Project 1 had a budget of £1,951,320 capital and £27,500 revenue, and is in the final stages of completion with a balanced financial position.
Project 2 had an OBC budget of £23,198,005 capital and £268,249 revenue and is making good progress on its deliverables, having been the subject of delays caused by resourcing and international supply chain issues. The FBC is subject to an increase in funding of £2,147,459 capital and £373,910 revenue as a result of the delays noted above and the subsequent global shortage of component parts; the police officer uplift requiring additional hardware purchases; and the decision to purchase SIM cards following the business pilot.


Project 3 is in the process of being commissioned. It has a preliminary budget of £391,000 to procure consultancy services in developing a long-term strategy and FBC to maximise business benefits of the technology and develop early use cases in line with NEP accreditation for launching Project 2. Further funding of £350,000 - £750,000 will be required (depending on the preferred specification) which will be subject to a separate business case and associated approval process.

The decision is that:

The Deputy Mayor approves the proposals set out in the Business Case and approve the necessary investment to deliver the Windows 10 Client Services project (Project 2), and also acknowledge the requirement for future investment to deliver the Transformational Services project (Project 3), which will be subject to a full business case.

The Deputy Mayor approves funding as set out below:
• Approve the Windows 10 Client Services Project Full Business Case at an estimated cost of £25,345,464 capital and £642,159 revenue over the life of the project.
• Note the increase estimated cost of the Client Services Project since the Outline Business Case of £2,147,459 capital and £373,910 revenue (one-off) due to delays in completing and delivering the Windows 10 deployment in 2022/23 caused by international supply chain issues and global shortage of component parts as well as change to the scope of the project following the business pilot to include SIM cards and additional hardware.
• Note the slippage of £1,063,858 of capital and £284,360 of revenue from 2021/22 into 2022/23.
• Note the expected investment of up to £750,000 to deliver the Windows 10 Transformational Services (Project 3) for Office 365 transformation and SharePoint migration in 2022/23. The full business case and request for approval of funding will be brought at a later stage in the year.
• Note that the funding requirements for the overall Windows 10 programme of Infrastructure Services, Client Services and Transformational Services (projects 1 – 3) has been included in the 2022/23 revenue and capital budget and 2022/23 – 2024/25 medium-term financial plan and capital programme to be reported to Police, Fire and Crime Panel on the 7th June 2022.

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.

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.

The reasons for the decision are:

The Victim Service Coordinators and Lead role were introduced in Sept 2017, as a pivotal element of the Assessment and Referral Model. They are employed by GMP and fully funded by GMCA. The team are led by the GMP Victim Services Strategic Lead and are responsible for the leadership and oversight of the victim services work at a divisional level, to improve partnership working and align services more effectively to improve pathways for victims.

During 2019/2020, GMCA lead a review of victim services across Greater Manchester. The purpose of the review was to ensure that the commissioned services and grant fund are: aligned to the Standing Together priorities; cost effective; achieving the desired outcomes in the Victims Outcome Framework and; most importantly were supporting the needs of victims’. The outcome of the review was to agree a recommissioning process for victim services in Greater Manchester.

The impacts of Covid19 have resulted in delays to the timelines of delivering the commissioning exercise, therefore it is recommended that the Victim Services Coordinator posts and Victim Services Transformation Lead post be extended for a further 6 months (1st April 2022 to end of September 2022). This is to act as an interim until the newly commissioned service has been put in place to commence on 1st October 2022.

In addition to a number of key successes and activity that the Victims Coordination Team have carried out, partners have also identified a number of key challenges and opportunities that GMCA will consider as part of the broader redesign work and shape commissioning of how this service is delivered after September.

To extend the funding of the GMP Victim Services Transformation Lead role and 11 Victim Services Coordinators posts, for a further 6 months (1st April 2022 to 30th September 2022), as in interim measure whilst commissioning for the multi-crime gateway service for victims in GM is implemented.

The proposed funding extension of the above posts also intends to align to the extension of both the Assessment and Referral Service and the grant funded victim services operating across Greater Manchester.

Total funding to be approved is for the Victim Services Transformation Lead role and the 11 Victim Services Coordinators is £291,000.

The extension of the posts will be funded via the annual MOJ Victims Budget allocation for 22/23.

The reasons for the decision are:

That Revolving Doors Agency is an award-winning national charity with over 20 years of experience aiming to change systems and improve services for people caught in the ‘revolving door’ – those who come into repeat contact with the criminal justice system due to multiple unmet needs. Their vision is to end the revolving door crisis by 2025.

This next phase of the lived experience approach by Revolving Doors, builds on the success of the involvement of a Lived Experience Team of individuals (LET) from Revolving Doors Agency that worked successfully alongside GM Integrated Rehabilitative Services team to help procure rehabilitative and resettlement support services across five areas (Accommodation; Education, Training and Employment (ETE); Peer Support; Family Support; and Women) during 2021.

Two further services covered by GM IRS (Emotional Wellbeing, and Dependency and Recovery) were not included in previous work but lived experience input is required across all services to add value and to ensure consistency across GM IRS. Lived Experience is therefore to feature into subsequent and upcoming co-design of these services.


The proposed model seeks to;
• Enable lived experience peer researchers to visit and assess services against service specifications;
• Ensure lived experience insight is part of service monitoring and evaluation;
•Support those with lived experience to input into service expansion or innovation as required.


GMCA and HMPPS need to know that the services they are commissioning will make a real difference to the lives of those who have been in contact with the criminal justice system :

• The Lived Experience Team know the system, they’ve seen it firsthand, lived through it and now want to help change it for the better.
• They have experienced probation services, been a part of or have known others stuck in the ‘Revolving Door’.
• They can tell commissioners what works, what helps people move on with their lives and be free from crime.
• They can share their journey / story – things that went wrong for them and the things that helped them get to where they are now.
• They’re the experts in knowing what it’s like -together we will shape what it can be.


Some of the current gaps in GM IRS Revolving Doors can address :

•Ongoing monitoring / service scrutiny from the perspective of individuals who know and understand the system.
•LET individuals conducting site visits i.e. Probation Delivery Units.
•Facilitate innovation and offer creative ideas for service expansion / reiterating service specifications as funds increase over the years.
•Lived Experience attendance and input at contract management meetings.


Revolving Doors will take a three-stage approach to delivery:

1. Development of the existing Lived Experience Team, including further recruitment and training to ensure effective site visits
2. Quarterly monitoring of commissioned services offering lived experience insight and input into contract management and service development meetings.
3. Broader perspectives from across Greater Manchester through LET engagement with Revolving Doors Lived Experience Regional Forum in Manchester.

Through a joint GMCA & GM Probation Service approach, that recognises the expertise and specialist nature of Revolving Doors. A Grant will be awarded to provide specialist lived experience advice for the Greater Manchester Integrated Rehabilitation Services which are the commissioned services that support the Greater Manchester Probation Service. Total Value - £95,000

The Deputy Mayor has committed to provide an agreed amount of financial support to both Adult and Children’s Safeguarding boards 2022/23. The allocation above to be allocated to each local authority area and divided on a 50/50 basis to the Children’s and also the Adult’s Safeguarding Boards.

The decision is that:

The ten Local Safeguarding Boards for Children and the ten local Safeguarding Boards for Adults will receive a payment as set out in the schedule below.

The work of the Safeguarding Boards will support GMP through the Strategic Vulnerability Board and at a local level in the areas of:

• Support the delivery of the GMP Child Centred Policing Strategy
• Shared Data Insights - MFH data for children and young people /care homes . We currently don’t have the specific details for children and young people's homes between 16 and 18 and would value more data from partners.
• Shared Training through safeguarding boards with local practioners. This will upskill police officers and neighbourhood teams at a place level .
• SCR reviews - learning and continual improvement.

In view of this the Deputy Mayor has agreed to make a 12 month payment to Safeguarding Boards for the period April 2022 – March 2023.

Payments should be made as outlined below. Each sum to be allocated on a 50/50 basis to the Childrens’s and Adult Safeguarding Board in that Local authority area:

Local Authority Joint Children's and Adults Safeguarding Board
payment April 2022 – March 2023
Bolton 34592
Bury 23700
Manchester 63732
Oldham 25800
Rochdale 24300
Salford 27000
Stockport 27600
Tameside 26400
Trafford 25800
Wigan 28800
TOTAL 307,724

The Business Case outlines that the current domino-based systems (4 in total) not only need to be decommissioned for several technical architectural reasons, but they have also not been ‘fit for purpose’ for a number of years.

The implementation of a new “single” case management system will provide an all-in-one solution that has built in asset and quality management, enhanced user operability, provides better investigative opportunities to forensic teams and front line officers. Additional benefits include enhanced features and services, improved data and performance management, compliance with forensic ISO accreditation requirements and supporting other legal requirements. It is scalable to meet future evolution in services, customizable to meet technical procedure changes and is compliant with all IS technical design principles going forward.

The solution proposed is called ‘Nimbus’ by Black Rainbow, which is an off-the-shelf product that has been designed to be highly configurable and flexible to the needs of the individual law enforcement agencies. Black Rainbow matched 91% of GMP’s Business requirements. The remaining GMP requirements can be delivered and has been factored into the total cost being requested.

The Deputy Mayor is asked to consider the proposals set out in the Business Case and approve the necessary investment to enable the project to replace and decommission existing Forensic Service Branch Case Management Systems (CMS) within the Digital Investigation Unit (DIU) and within the Forensic CCTV Unit with a 'single' fit for purpose and fit for future CMS system. The proposed solution identified is "Nimbus" by Black Rainbow, which will replace the 4 current domino systems that require urgent decommissioning.

The Deputy Mayor is asked to approve funding as set out below:

1. Approve the expenditure of £653,250 revenue costs in FY 22/23 to commence finalisation of solution design and implementation of the system. Breakdown provided below:
• £132,000 project management resource cost
• £196,750 solution design and implementation costs
• £322,500 solution licence/storage cost year one.
2. Approve the future revenue costs totalling £943,500, that is needed for system upkeep, servicing, licence cost, storage costs etc for the next three years. Breakdown provided below:
• £314,500 23/24 FY solution licence/storage cost
• £314,500 24/25 FY solution licence/storage cost
• £314,500 25/26 FY solution licence/storage cost
3. Approve the award of a 2 year contract for the implementation and maintenance of a new case management system, to Black Rainbow, with the option to extend for a further 2 years. The likely value of 4 years spend would be circa £1.5m.

The reasons for the decision are:

As part of Justice Devolution arrangements between Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) and Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS), it has been agreed that HMPPS will devolve their national ‘Dynamic Commissioning Framework’ responsibilities for
commissioning of services through to GMCA.

The devolved approach for Greater Manchester is entitled ‘Greater Manchester Integrated Rehabilitative Services’ (GMIRS). This approach is designed to offer a less structured and more locally tailored interventions which will draw on the experience, innovation and skill within the
private and voluntary, community and social enterprise sectors (VCSE), to provide effective rehabilitation and resettlement services that address criminogenic needs unmet by NPS through their programmes, Accredited Programmes, Unpaid Work and Structured Interventions.

The creation of a Greater Manchester Integrated Rehabilitative Services Welfare Programme across Greater Manchester seeks to embed public service reform principles by working with provision where it already exists and bolstering those services to create additional value by providing funding for enhancing the following service provision:
• Mentoring
• Emotional regulation and decision making
• Wellbeing support and healthy choices
• Behaviour change
• Family support and mediation

The service will deliver a needs-led, person-centered offer of support via a variety of delivery methods and interventions, working in conjunction with Probation Service sentence planning and risk management objectives. Value will be created through both the enhanced funding provided through this Expression of Interest and existing service provision already in place and accessible as part of Greater Manchester Integrated Rehabilitative Services. It is expected that the services will operate as a broker role acting as advocate for both the person and other services. This will include developing and maintaining networks and supporting excellent relationships with key internal and external stakeholders

Referrals will be from the Local Probation Delivery Unit for people subject to probation supervision including those in custody or the community on a Community or Suspended Sentence Orders and for those on Licence and Post-Sentence Supervision.

Year 1 will see the approach start as a pilot of adding value and capacity into existing services as an investment approach in Greater Manchester. During this first year a commissioning approach will be developed with the expectation of an Invitation To Tender to be issued for delivery of the services for 3 year duration until 2026.

The first ‘pilot’ year will be delivered through an Expression of Interest process, the sustainable, longer-term approach is to embed a delivery model through a tender process and contractual arrangements. The approach also seeks to develop a Coordinator Provider to support development and delivery of the model.

The funding envelope for 2022/23 is up to £100,000 for each area apart from Manchester only where it is £200,000. Funding for the Co-ordinator Provider anticipated at £50,000, with a further £150,000 allocated for mobilisation.

The expression of interest process allowed services that are already delivering in our communities, this will enable GMCA & the GM Probation service to build on the infrastructure and services that already exist. There is an ambition to develop VCSE provision to be able to engage with justice partners, particularly, GMPS. Services will need to demonstrate connectively to local areas (at a local authority geography) including Probation Delivery Units (PDU), local statutory services and the wider VCSE. The provider ‘s are able to deliver a service from day one of agreement. However, as this may represent a potential large increase in demand the provider will be able to develop capacity to meet need during a mobilisation period.

In these circumstances it is anticipated the Provider will already have a targeted service user group which may include People on Probation. The Provider will be able to deliver a dual delivery approach that both recognises the statutory requirements to deliver services for people on probation whilst at the same time, supporting existing and future voluntary attendees. There is an expectation the approach for People on Probation and those attending voluntarily will be consistent.

The Named allocated providers are;

District
Lead Provider - The Big Life Company
Welfare Advice line - The Big life Company
Bolton - Bolton Advice
Bury - Stepping Stones
Manchester - POPs and Back on track – PoPs will be the lead in Manchester
Oldham - POPs and Back on track
Rochdale - Sanctuary Trust & Rochdale Community trust – Rochdale Community Trust will be the lead provider
Tameside - Big Life Company
Trafford - Out There & Big Life
Salford - Salford Foundation
Stockport - Nacro Lead Provider
Wigan - Big Life Company
Mobilisation Fund - Open to successful providers

The named providers will be awarded the allocated funding to deliver the welfare service hub, one for each district.

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

The reasons for the decision are:
IThrive and the VRU will co-fund an additional role to drive forward joint, co-commissioned wellbeing projects for the most vulnerable children across Greater Manchester
The appointed person will lead and deliver arts and culture interventions in GM ensuring commissioned providers are aligned to trauma responsive practice and high standards
Arts and culture, NHS and education sectors partnership will effectively broaden the reach of wellbeing projects in areas of greatest need through a co-ordinated approach in delivery and evaluation practices

The Greater Manchester Violence Reduction Unit is seeking to award Manchester NHS Foundation Trust £16,000 to co-fund an additional member of staff to support the Greater Manchester Wellbeing Project being delivered by GM IThrive

The FCC Investment Business Case has been proposed to outline the investment needed for the Force Contact Centre to address the challenges it faces in creating a more resilient, high quality, responsive and consistent service. It will supplement the existing change work ongoing in the branch around replacing contact centre telephony, estates improvements, technical upgrades and business process redesign around incident grading, dispatch, crime recording, force operations and the people strategy.
It addresses the recent issues surrounding the sub optimal 999 and 101 performances - where our service has fallen way below what the public should expect of us, and the substantial amount of money spent on overtime with limited impact on performance and which is unsustainable to resource.

It looks at the resilience of the branch to handle the spikes in demand and abstractions presented by the recent pandemic and the need to review the resourcing model to meet and respond to changes in demand, such as the increase in live chat and website contacts. It also considers the high turnover of staff and sickness, plus the capacity challenges experienced in selection, recruitment, training and mentoring within the FCC.
It highlights the anticipated benefits to the public who should see an
increased satisfaction with their police force as well as the benefits to the health and wellbeing of staff, operational integrity, compliance and
financial/operational efficiencies. It also summarises the key practical
delivery considerations including any required enabling work, central support, provisional timescales and risk management, as well as projected costs.
The requested budget includes:
• an increase in call handling establishment by 42 (from 246 to 288) in
order to deliver 999 SLA.
• recruitment to 10% over establishment across Switchboard, Call
Handling, Command & Control and Crime Recording to minimise the
effect on performance of spikes in leavers (current attrition rate is 10%) or delays in on-boarding
• the creation of a senior staff post for customer contact to drive the
business forward.
• an investment into People and Development training resources to
deliver the uplift and ongoing CPD.
• It also recommends a review of pay in call handling which we
anticipate would be raised from grade C/D to E to align with the Radio
Dispatch role. Dispatch would move to a single E Grade role, aligned
to Call Handling.
• A pay review in the Customer Enquiry Unit (known as switchboard)
and proposes they might see an increase of grade from B/C to D.
Job evaluation and consultation will be required before it can be
implemented, however planning for this can be progressed immediately.

The Deputy Mayor is asked to consider the proposals set out in the FCC Business Case and approve the necessary investment to enable the FCC to address the challenges it faces in creating a more resilient, high quality, responsive and consistent service.
The Deputy Mayor is asked to approve additional funding as set out below:
1. Approve the release of £8,058,682 recurring revenue for Phases 1
(A) & 1 (B). (It should be noted, however, that the part-year recurring
revenue cost forecast for 2022/23 is £4,915,351 due to anticipated
timescales to recruit) and thereafter £8,058,682 per annum.
2. Approve the release of £228,000 one off revenue for project
resources in 2022/23.
3. Approve the expenditure of £72,613 one off capital for training
laptops and FCC door automation in 2022/23 (to be funded from
capital grant as part of the 2022/23 capital programme).