Decisions

Alison Cope has lived experience of losing her son Josh when he was stabbed in 2013. Alison devotes her time to campaigning for violence reduction, much of which involves 2-3 hour presentations to secondary school audiences across the UK. Alison has recently presented at the Greater Manchester Hope Hack in Oct 2022, where her presentation was extremely engaging across an audience of over 100 young people. Alison’s message is one of awareness of the dangers of carrying a weapon, but also considering the impact of violence on individuals, family and friends, and looking out for signs amongst peer groups where early intervention may be required. Alison’s presentation has been endorsed by the Mayor and Deputy Mayor.
It is important that the VRU considers additional support to schools where the presentations take place in order that disclosures or concerns can be addressed beyond the presentations, so each school will be offered the services of GMP School Engagement Officers and Youth Navigators. (This support will not replace the existing statutory safeguarding arrangements in each school).
Education lead Dr Antony Edkins is in the process of identifying the schools wishing to participate and commit to longer term approaches to violence prevention.
Subject to the success of the presentations gathered via staff and pupil feedback, consideration may be given to widening the offer in 2023/24.

The programme director agrees a 2022/23 budget allocation of £10,000 (£3200 from Education / £6800 from Health and Wellbeing). Both Education and H&W leads in agreement.

The Criminal Justice delivery group workstream identified, through the multi-agency processes and structures in place, the key areas of focus and priority to deliver on the Serious Violence action plan, namely the 16-25 cohort, and specifically those who are experiencing transitions or significant impacts from experiences such adverse childhood experiences and/or societal experiences of being part of an ethnic minority community.

Achieve Connect are working within the sector as an existing supplier of Employment Education and Training service within the Probation service. The service has successfully facilitated the VRU funded practitioners commissioned budget to 18-25 young adult on probation in 2021-2022 and given the established probation and YJS working arrangements around transitions, they are well placed to extend this service to the GM YJS services.

This established service will support fast and cohesive deployment of services. Achieve Connects specific expertise in the Criminal Justice System and established working arrangements means that they are in a unique placed to deliver on this practitioners commissioning service for young people and young adults within the YJS and the Probation service. A web based research and consultation with a GM subject expert group to identify potential suppliers has found no other suppliers available to deliver a similar service.

The GMVRU GMCA are seeking to pay 20k to Achieve Northwest Connect to manage a Personalised Budget fund allowing equal access to young adults on probation and those subject to statutory supervision by the Youth Justice Services across Greater Manchester.
This service will be for:
Young Adults :18-25yr olds men and women on statutory supervision to the Greater Manchester Probation Service. We will provide additional advertising to minority groups including BAME, women and those accessing additional support services. The Personalised Budget will uplift, enhance a service user’s life chances and/or support desistance from further offending.

Children and Young people: those subject to statutory supervision by youth justices’ services across Greater Manchester boroughs: Manchester, Salford, Trafford, Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside, Stockport, Wigan, Bolton, Bury.

Achieve North West connect will be responsible for
Administrating the personalised budget funds
Develop an application form and guidance for PPs/Youth Justice practitioners and partners.
internally set up application process/ policy for the management of Personalised Budget.
Set up communication between Achieve and the stakeholders to advertise the provision and process.
Provide progress report on a quarterly basis

The Criminal Justice delivery group workstream identified, through the multi-agency processes and structures in place, the key areas of focus and priority to deliver on the Serious Violence action plan, namely the 14-25 cohort, and specifically those who are experiencing transitions or significant impacts from experiences such adverse childhood experiences and/or societal experiences of being part of an ethnic minority community or subjected to gender based violence. The providers of this service will be selected based on their ability to deliver against these priorities.

The GMCA are seeking commission a programme of support for girls and women (age 14- 21) who are identified as being at risk of serious gang related youth violence, sexual exploitation and abuse, and modern slavery. The contract value is £88k.

This service will be responsible for:
• An intervention that is trauma responsive that address the complex needs for girls,young and adult women who are at risk of serious gang related youth violence, sexual exploitation and abuse, and modern slavery.
• A programme that provides a suite of activities to support these vulnerabilities, through one-to-one mentoring and group activity, and if possible leading to nationally recognised accreditations.
• A programme that links in with local statutory services and local community providers. With a focus on relationships, sport and positive activities,

The Experts by Experience programme is designed to appoint people with lived experience of serious violence to be trained in the skill of Appreciative Inquiry, and to use Appreciative Inquiry to carry out a critical appraisal of the GM VRU’s Community Led Pilots programme and more generally appraise the GM VRU’s Community Led approach. This event in particular is intended as a training day to train the appointed Experts in the skill of Appreciative Inquiry

The Greater Manchester Violence Reduction Unit agree to make the following payments for a VRU hosted training event:

Friends Meeting House:
A payment to be made of £524.79 to book a room at Friends Meeting House, Manchester for the Violence Reduction Experts by Experience Training Programme for people with lived experience of serious violence on Thursday 19th January 2023 as well as catering (Sandwiches, Teas & Coffees) for the 20 meeting attendees.

One of the key objectives of the VRU communications strategy is to raise awareness of how Greater Manchester Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) is working together with partners and the community to address serious violence and its underlying causes. This project is a partnership between the VRU and NAS, which aims to prevent exploitation amongst a specific group of young people

The VRU awards £7,800 to the National Autistic Society (NAS) to produce a video related to the exploitation of young people who are autistic. The video will consist of a combination of animation (video game style) and talking heads of stakeholders from GM, as well as parental, lived experience and young persons’ voice.

The NAS will use the video as a tool to communicate with their network.

Dr Alex Chard is the author of the Punishing Abuse report, which was commissioned by the West Midlands Combined Authority and the West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner.

Dr Alex Chard, Director YCTCS Ltd is a systemic organisational consultant, independent academic and professional author. He has a Professional Doctorate in Systemic Practice and is a member of the Society of Authors and the Institute of Directors. is recognised as a national expert in this field and has extensive experience including undertaking reviews into 2 London boroughs and reporting to a Home Office Minister.

Punishing Abuse was a detailed study of eighty children from across eleven local authorities who were known to youth offending teams and wider services including education, health and social care.
The report argues that a number of children in the youth justice system are being punished as a consequence of the impact on their behaviours of their early abuse and loss. It also highlights the abuse and adversity that these children suffered. Of the 80 children in the criminal justice system studied:
• nine in ten children are known or suspected to have been abused;
• eight in ten children are known or suspected to have a health issue;
• eight in ten were subject to school exclusion or attendance at multiple secondary schools;
• seven in ten are known or suspected to have lived with domestic violence whilst growing up;
• seven in ten children are known or suspected to be a victim of violence;
• seven in ten children lived in poverty;
• there was only one child with no recorded abuse or childhood adversity.
The findings of this work are extremely relevant to us in GM and having Dr Chard speak at an event being attended by Youth Justice colleagues from across Greater Manchester will be beneficial in drawing attention to the findings of the report and using these in the delivery of our GM Youth Justice Transformation programme.

The findings also highlight the inter-familiar and generational violence children experience and this insight and research will be essential in developing a bid for Home Office Perpetrator Funding, for interventions for children and young people, who commit violence against family members. Dr Chard’s knowledge will contribute greatly to the development of this bid and should ensure that GMCA are in a good position to secure funding for much needed perpetrator programmes working with children and adolescents.

Dr Chard’s work with the West Midlands Youth Justice Services and PCC will enabled shared learning from endeavours such as training package development including Webinars, which will be invaluable for the ambition in Greater Manchester to embed a ‘Community Of Practice’ approach for youth justice services.

The approach is supported by the GM Youth Justice Lead Director of Children’s Services, Paul Marshall, Manchester City Council.

A maximum envelope of £5,000 will be allocated to YCTCS Ltd for 22/23 to deliver:

• Attendance the Youth Justice event on 26th January and keynote presentation with a focus on inter-familial / generational trauma. This includes a charge for 3 hours attendance at the event (3 hours), as well as presentation preparation time and travel / accommodation.
• Independent advice for the review of the Youth Justice Transformation Action Plan.
• Contribute to the development of the Home Office Perpetrator bid with a particular focus on supporting the strand focused on effective evaluation for interventions for children and young people which will be submitted by 17th February.

Fees are charged at £900 per day or pro-rata at £129 per hour (plus expenses and VAT) and invoices will be submitted for all aspects of the work with a breakdown of associated costs included in the invoice.

The Commonplace Safer Spaces Hub helps the GMCA, and Local Authority Partners, to know what people think about crime and perceptions of safety in a specific location.

It also allows for a virtual conversation to take place between residents and the local Community Safety Partnership in regards to what residents would you like public services to focus on and what more we could do to keep communities and neighbourhoods safe.

Use of this Hub builds on the quarterly GM Police and Crime survey, allowing us to understand better where there are areas of concern in respect of public safety. It also will support the work of the GMCA and partners outlined in the Gender Based Violence strategy, as we build our understand of where acts of anti-social behaviour, intimidation, misogyny and harassment take place and the severity of these incidents.

The Deputy Mayor will directly fund the purchase of a GM Safer Spaces Licence for the Commonplace Safer Spaces Hub, including the Community heatmap, for a 12 month period at a cost of £7,500

The ‘Safer Streets’ fund is a Home Office fund that allows Police and Crime Commissioners and Local Authorities to apply for funding for crime prevention plans.

Greater Manchester’s successful partnership bid, submitted by GMCA, GMP, Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM), Manchester City Council and Sustrans will be used to deploy and test several interventions on the urban cycleway to reduce incidents of ASB, neighbourhood crime and raise perceptions of safety of users of the Fallowfield Loop and Yellow Brick Road.

The Fallowfield Loop (FLoop) is an off-road cycle and pedestrian path built on a former railway line that runs from Chorlton-cum-Hardy through Fallowfield and Levenshulme to Gorton and Fairfield in Manchester. It is part of the National Cycle Network (maintained by Sustrans). At 8 miles long, the FLoop is thought to be the longest urban cycleway in Britain.

In February 2022 GMP undertook a Crime Impact Statement (CIS) for the FLoop, identifying the extent of crime and type of crime being committed along the length of the FLoop.


In 2020 and 2021, Manchester City Council held two large scale consultations on the FLoop, supported by the Friends of Fallowfield Loop community group. This consultation was aimed at creating a safe, convenient, efficient, and accessible cycling and walking network that will help encourage greater and more widespread sustainable travel use by making the route safer and reduce anti-social behaviour.

The 2020 consultation received over 5200 individual responses, with respondents naming the top priority to address personal safety and anti-social behaviour on the FLoop and to revitalise the existing landscape to create a more open and less intimidating environment for users that helps to eliminate the public perception of the route being unsafe to travel along because of issues relating to crime and anti-social behaviour.

The Safer Streets Fund, in conjunction with match funding and match resourcing from Manchester City Council, TfGM and Sustrans will help towards the delivery of interventions to address the priorities identified in the consultation.

The Deputy Mayor will use the £453,080 awarded to Greater Manchester through the Home Office’s Safer Streets Fund (Round 4) to fund a number of interventions and programmes to reduce acquisitive crime, ASB and improve perceptions of safety on the Fallowfield Loop and Yellow Brick Road cycle ways that run through South and East Manchester.

This funding will be devolved to Manchester City Council, GMP and TfGM and Station South. Grant Agreements will be developed

Manchester city centre has 1,000 of the 6,000 licensed premises across the city region and therefore the City of Manchester continues to present the highest demand and vulnerability when it comes to the night-time economy. Many residents from across the city region visit the city centre (around 40% are from other parts of Greater Manchester) proving that investment in these schemes benefits all across the city region.

Within the city region the ‘Village’ area continues to be amongst the highest for policing demand and has high levels of vulnerable people who need help on a night out.

Up until 2022/23, the GMCA has contributed via grant funding to the LGBT Foundation for the provision of The Village Safe Haven (‘the Haven’) and the Village Angels scheme operate in the Canal Street ‘Village’ area of Manchester. The Scheme aims to support vulnerable individuals, prevent harm, increase general welfare, and reduce demand on the emergency services during the night time economy.

The primary public service beneficiaries are GMP, Manchester City Council and North West Ambulance Service. Further to this, cost benefits are seen by health and criminal justice services. Licensed premises also benefit.

The newly commissioned service is expected to build on this foundation and further improve partnership working the GMCA, Manchester City Council, Emergency Services and licenced premises in the ‘Village’ area to make it as safe as possible location for people to enjoy.

The GMCA will commission a Night Time Economy Welfare Scheme for the Gay Village ‘Village’ area of Manchester.

The contract will be awarded on a 2 year (2023/24-2024/25) + 1 year (2025/26) + 1 year (2026/27) basis.

The cost of the contract will be £135,000 per annum, total value £540,000

The contract to provide the Policing and Community Safety Survey commenced on 1st February 2019 and is currently in the plus one-year extension, that runs to the end of April 2023.

It is not possible to extend the existing contract further and it was agreed that the survey will be re-commissioned, informed by a stakeholder engagement process, with a view to the new contract starting to allow an overlap between the current and new provider for the Policing and Community Safety survey, to prevent a discontinuity in the survey.

The contract to undertake the Victim Survey with the same provider ended in March 2022.

An extensive stakeholder consultation process, overseen by a multi-agency survey management group, was completed in September 2022 and reported to the Deputy Mayor. The engagement process took place over the July, August and early September 2022 with organisations as below:
• GMCA:
• Extended Leadership network
• Police, Fire and Crime team
• Comms (GMS)
• Research team
• Older People
• Fire
• Strategy Team (linked to devolution trailblazer work)
• TfGM
• District Community Safety Managers and data staff
• MOPAC
• GMP
• Victim Resilience Forum

The purpose of the engagement process:
• Determine what other survey work is being undertaken or is planned to be undertaken that may relate to policing and community safety or victim satisfaction
• Identify any gaps and duplication in the current survey approach
• Identify opportunities for sharing survey results and benchmarking with other regions.

The engagement process informed the decision to commission three ‘lots’ and the rationale for this decision is set out in the attached decision notice which was approved in October 2022.

The advertisement for the three lots was placed on The Chest on the 27th October 2022, closing on the 23rd November 2022.

3 bids were received for each ‘lot’ and following evaluation, DJS Research Ltd scored highest for each lot (applied for all three).

Following a compliant procurement process a provider has been identified for each of the 3 lots as outlined below:

Lot 1 – Policing and Community Safety survey - DJS Research Ltd

£200,000 per annum envelope

Tender price: £190,000 per annum
Contract length: 3 years (option to extend for 1 year plus 1 year)
Total: £950,000 over five years

Lot 2 – Victim survey - DJS Research Ltd
(including the development and testing of several different approaches to tracking and assessing the experiences and perceptions of victims).

£200,000 - £240,000 per annum envelope to be made available to cover the development of a product range and ongoing fieldwork.

Tender price: £211,000 year 1 and £215,000 is each of the subsequent years.
Contract length:1 year for development, testing, fieldwork and reporting, 2 years for ongoing fieldwork and reporting with the option to extend for a further 1 year plus 1 year.

Total: £1,071,000 over five years


Lot 3 – Bespoke Analysis – DJS Research Ltd
(to provide a number of research days/ to undertake in-depth analysis using data from the policing and community safety and victim surveys).

£50,000 per annum envelope

Tender Price: £44,800
Contract length: 3 years (option to extend for 1 year plus 1 year)
Total - £224,000 over five years

In line with Regulatory Requirements this funding is delivered as a grant and is awarded to 3rd parties (Local Authorities) to use in line with their purposes and objectives on behalf of the GMCA. These purposes and objectives will align with those of the GMCA as the project enables localities to explore and implement how they may support children and young people with Autism in mainstream schools through the provision of early intervention and preventive support.

Approval is agreed for GMCA to hold the budget for GM Autism in Schools Project and to release funding to individual Local Authorities as a grant arrangement.

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 an agreement to undertake a recommissioning process for victim services in Greater Manchester.

Following this review, and also the conclusion of the maximum allowed 5 contracted years for the GM Victim Assessment and Referral Centre with provider Victim Support, an Invitation to Tender (ITT) was launched to recommission this service on 4th July 2022. This process resulted in notification to award a contract on 19th September 2022. It was intended for the successful provider to commence the collocated service following a mobilisation period on 1st December 2022

A legal challenge was launched by the unsuccessful bidder on 29th September 2022 resulting in a protracted standstill period. In order to reach a clear assured resolution and way forward, it was decided to restart the ITT with a new delivery timeline for the redesigned service scheduled to start in summer 2023.

As such, it is now required that the Victim Assessment and Referral Centre service provided by Victim Support be extended to operate until June 30th 2023. This is in order that a full ITT can be relaunched, with scope for any unexpected standstill, and sufficient mobilisation period for the new collocated service to transition and commence

That the contract in place for the Victims Assessment and Referral Services delivered by Victim Support is extended for a total of 15 months backdated from 1st April 2022, and concluding 30th June 2023. This Service will continue to act as a transitional interim measure whilst commissioning for the multi-crime gateway service for victims is implemented.


Year 5: 2nd year extension= 1st April 2022 – 30th June 2022
= 3 months @ £287,232.75

Year 6: concluding additional year due to unforeseen circumstances: 1st July 2022 – 30th June 2023
= 12 months @ £1,148,931

TOTAL £1,436,163.75

Funding for the period will be allocated via the MOJ Victims Budget

To advertise and promote the launch of the next phase of #IsThisOK – Greater Manchester’s gender-based violence public engagement campaign

GMCA pay Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) £11,003 (plus VAT) to advertise across their network from Monday 9 January to Sunday 12 February 2023.

This training is for health professionals and first responders involved in the care of groups following traumatic incidents.
During this 5 x 3 hour module programme delivered over 2.5 days,
participants will be taught the skills, structure and theory required to conduct a range of group interventions following critical incidents in the workplace and community. These include Crisis Management Briefing, Defusing and Critical Incident Stress Debriefing. Activities will provide opportunity to practice interventions in a safe, supportive and structured environment.
It will start the process of providing GM RASSO Service providers with the beginnings of a standard protocol of how they manage issues and incidents collectively. This is accredited training used by other organisations, including emergency services.
Additionally, this training will lead to increasing resilience across the VCSE sector which is a positive in terms of services provided and delivery of these.
It also assists staff within the sector. The training is designed for those who have experienced which may lead to trauma so is relevant for staff working within the SV sector due to the nature of their work.
Survivors will manage the programme and we will ask them to confirm who has accessed this training and any outcomes coming from this.

£4900 (inc VAT) is provided to Survivors Manchester for the procuring of the Critical Incident Stress Management Course (CISM).
7 staff from Survivors Manchester will access this training and there will be 9 other spaces open to GM Sexual Violence support VCSE organisationswho are members of the Sexual Violence Harm Reduction Group. The training will be hosted and delivered at Survivors Manchester, and they will book relevant people onto the training. This works out at £367 per person accessing the training.

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

To deliver against these objectives, the VRU has a content plan for the year.
This includes using our existing channels (VRU website, social media accounts, earned media) to reach young people and parents with key messages;
- Positive alternatives to violence
- Opportunities
- Voice of lived experience - other young people, members of the community
- Violence reduction campaigns

We are continually trying to grow the number of young people we reach with our messages and are keen to use radio as a new way of reaching people by tapping into existing and regular audiences.

The VRU is seeking to award £29,848 to Unity Radio to produce and air radio content specifically aimed at young people in Greater Manchester. We will use radio as an additional way of reaching more young people and young people that can be hard to reach through our existing platforms – VRU website and social channels.

In recognition of the positive impact that sport can have on young people’s experiences, and its essential role in helping many young people to avoid negative situations, peer contacts, and routines and help to prevent involvement in youth offending, the VRU would like to build on our previous investments in this area, by allocating £600,000 of funding across three years (in 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25).

In line with the Strategic Needs Assessment findings, this would enable the VRU Community Sport Lead to continue to explore opportunities to embed the work already developed in partnership with Street Games and their community sport analysis tool, as an evidence-based approach to delivering the VRU’s vision for the role of community sport;
• ‘more sport in more places,
• more workforce with more competencies, and
• more vulnerable young people referred and engaged in community sport’.

As part of the contract, Street Grams will be expected to

• Support existing commissioned activity and grant programmes originating from the GMCA/VRU/LAs and influence existing arrangements to adopt a uniform set of academically supported core deliverables, principles and outcomes.
• Support communities and stakeholders to better understand the approach taken when funding and commissioning into sport and physical activity-based interventions, which include
o Diversional Activity, taking an evidence-based approach to addressing the drivers of youth violence and how sport and physical activity provision can deter those young people from further engagement in youth violence
o Place-Based Pilot programmes, including
? Stabilising the delivery of sport-based, early intervention and prevention approaches across targeted place-based communities, building capacity in local providers to enable a uniformed, evidence-based approach to addressing the needs of local communities.
? Connecting hyper local, place-based organisations that deliver evidence-based sport-interventions to the criminal justice system, using consistent, quality assured implementation standards, and robust referral pathways to address secondary and tertiary needs.
? Evaluate the impact of evidence-based practice on the development of pro-social and protective factors of beneficiaries.
? Further develop a strategic analysis tool to identify opportunities and shortcomings, which can be presented to, and addressed locally through multi-agency partnership boards.
• Manage and deliver a number of Communities of Learning & Practice / Network Events to align professionals, practitioners and providers to enable further collaboration, to share learning, understand new research, insight and trends, and further develop and embed sport and physical activities as a vehicle for positive behaviour change and the reduction of youth violence.
• Lead a cross-sector and multi-agency workforce and organisational development programme that enhances sport-based providers’ capacity & capabilities and their impact to deliver in line with the VRU’s primary, secondary and tertiary prevention agendas.
o This will ensure high quality, evidence lead and trauma informed practices are established across the VRU, placing ‘prevention’ at the heart of the delivery and ensuring necessary safeguarding protocols and risk management strategies are in place to manage the heightened risk and behaviours seen by working in the secondary and tertiary prevention spheres.
o The Provider will need to work with partner organisations to commission directly or refer the young people they are engaged with into more targeted services such as mentoring or counselling, where appropriate to enhance the support to the young person and ultimately reduce the young person’s involvement in risky behaviours that can lead to criminality and violence.
• Develop and embed a clear policy cycle for the delivery of primary, secondary and tertiary sport and physical activity interventions.
• Work with local strategic and delivery partners to develop a longer-term sustainable delivery offer for sport and physical activity interventions supporting the aims of the GM VRU
• Work with evaluation partners to evaluate the impact of commissioned and non-commissioned sport and physical activity interventions.
• Service and further embed the regional Greater Manchester Early Intervention Sport and Youth Justice (GMEISYJ) Board, and place-based boards where appropriate, to explore and develop proposals across the region, embedding community-based sport and physical activity as a viable and effective option to bring about an improvement in individual, community and social outcomes

The GMCA awards Street Games the contract as set as advertised in GMCA 591.

The contract is for the provision of a Community Sport Strategic Delivery Partner for the Greater Manchester Violence Reduction Unit commencing January 2023 March 2025 at a cost of £600,000 which will be funded through the GM Violence Reduction Unit’s budget, as agreed with the Home Office.

There is a proposal to update the North West Emergency Services Network s22A Collaboration Agreement into the new template developed by APACE in collaboration with the NPCC and the Association of Police Lawyers.

The parties to the current agreement are Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester Police, Lancashire, Merseyside and the Lead Chief Officer and Policing Body are Cheshire.

The ESN project was set up by the Home Office in 2016 to replace the existing Airwave radio network. Each NW Force had a small project team with the Chief Constables from each Force agreeing to contribute towards a small regional team. A section 22 agreement was signed and has been in place since 2017.

Ordinarily there would not be an issue with transitioning to the new form of Agreement. However, recently the Home Office announced a major delay to the programme (2 to 3 years) and NPCC made a decision to stand down all regional teams. This is due to happen for the NW at the end of March 2023. In November 2022, the Chief Constable of Cheshire advised in a letter that they had recently taken the pragmatic decision to wind down the regional ESN team given the lack of progress nationally on the project.

One of the general principles of the new form Agreement is that each Party is to share fairly the benefits, risks and liabilities of the collaboration. This will involve each party making a financial contribution to cover its share of any part of the budget that is not covered by external funding. Greater Manchester general contribution ratio is 41.98%.

A Force may withdraw from the collaboration by giving twelve months’ notice or the agreement may be terminated at any time by the unanimous agreement of the parties.

Given the national position, and the wish to disband the current arrangements, Cheshire would be amenable to reducing the required notice period and ending the Collaboration by mutual consent. However, it should be noted that the cost sharing provisions contained within the new iteration of the S22 agreement are different. In the new form, the cost of any redundancies of staff who are members of the Centrally Funded Team are a liability of the NORTH WEST EMERGENCY SERVICES NETWORK and the parties agree to proportionately reimburse the cost of any redundancy in accordance with the Apportionment Ratio. The potential implications of this are set out in the Financial Comments section of this decision.

Reasons why the updates decision should be signed:

S22A Collaborations should be on the most up to date template, as part of good governance. HMICFRS have a particular interest in collaborations. GMCA were not named on the previous S22a (it referred instead to PCC for GM) and the new form is updated for GDPR.

GMP/GMCA are still a party to the collaboration even though we haven’t signed the updated version, but every other regional CC and Policing body has. We will need to work together to agree the position as to how the Agreement will come to an end by way of mutual consent in March 2023.

If the parties cannot reach agreement, then mutual termination will not be possible and will trigger each party serving a 12 months notice to exit and continuing to pay the costs of and incidental to that.

This would be a complex and difficult scenario to navigate through. GMP has some favourable information surrounding the funding below, which suggests that a pragmatic way forward should be adopted.

Whilst this Agreement will be terminated in March 2023 there are of course many other agreements that remain in existence so there is a need to maintain relations in that regard.

The Deputy Mayor authorises the entering into of the above S.22A agreement, for the NORTH WEST EMERGENCY SERVICES NETWORK (ESN)

I am greater murals have been painted in three locations across Greater Manchester – Tameside, Bury and Salford.
Young people designed the murals with an artist (Oskar with a k) and were taught how to spray paint.
Different colours were used for each mural to make them unique – this made paint costs higher than initially expected.

The end point survey will evaluate the performance of the second phase of the campaign and act as a baseline for the third phase. We have used a survey company (Obsurvant) to ensure a good number of responses, as previously we have struggled to have young people complete surveys. A pair of airpods have also been purchased by Hitch as an incentive for young people to complete the survey.

The GM VRU is seeking to provide Hitch Marketing with an extra £2,002 to cover additional costs for the I am greater murals and end-point survey.
£8,410 was initially awarded to Hitch for this work, additional spend was required to cover material costs (underestimated initially) and survey completion.

Due to the success of the first two phases of the campaign, a decision has been made to run a third phase.
The third phase will build on active bystander training/messaging which was delivered in the second phase with clear examples of how to safely intervene when violent language is used, to prevent the situation from escalating.
Additional resources will be created for schools and colleges and for parents.

The GM VRU is seeking to commission a third phase of the I am greater campaign. The campaign is aimed at young people in GM and encourages them to be greater than violence by identifying with positive role models and being an active bystander. The third phase of the campaign will build on the first two phases, and include young people in the design and creation of campaign materials. The total amount of funding to be awarded is £50,000.

The Knife Crime Project (as yet untitled) will commission high quality graphic artists to co-produce a series of graphic designed triptychs with young people and communities around their unique experiences concerning knife crime. Th exhibition will be displayed in St. Peters Square and across the Greater Manchester Metrolink Network. It will be presented as part of SICK! Festival throughout May 2024, drawing on the successful partnership with Manchester City Council and TfGM in presenting “I Am” by Allie Crewe as part of SICK! Festival 2022, “Mindscapes” in 2021 and “Graphic Encounters” in 2019.

The knife crime project will produce the artwork through a collaborative approach with young people and other community members throughout 2023. Creative producers, artists and community partners, will use a trauma informed approach to work with the groups to explore their thoughts, feelings and stories around their experiences of knife crime. They will work with key community partners to identify and support young people and communities through the process, including 42nd Street, Manchester Youth Zone and RECLAIM. A graphic artist will then work with the groups to develop their stories as graphic artworks.

SICK! Productions is a North Manchester-based, diversity-led arts charity (RCN. 1116008) focused on using art and arts experiences to connect people and communities through exploring shared vulnerabilities, especially around mental and physical health.

The GM VRU is seeking to provide match funding for SICK! Productions, who are working with young people, community members and artists to produce a series of installations about their unique experiences of knife crime.

The funding from the VRU will cover the workshops with victims and perpetrators to understand their stories and create a visual art installation.
The total amount of funding to be given by the VRU is £7,500.

There is a need to provide better training to young people on how to identify and stop a bleed.
The Manchester Arena Inquiry Report, Volume 2-II, includes the following recommendation:
The Department for Education should consider extending the National Curriculum to ensure that pupils, once of an appropriate age, receive education in all first responder interventions.

‘Stop the bleed’ day will allow large numbers of young people to receive potentially life saving first aid training.
If the pilot in GM is successful, CitizenAid plan to roll out nationally.

The GM VRU is seeking to support CitizenAid with the GM pilot of ‘Stop the bleed’ day, a day that will teach young people how to identify and stop a bleed. The format will be similar to ‘Restart a heart day’, where young people will be shown a video and given chance to try out what they learn.

The funding from the VRU will cover the co-design of the video with young people and filming and editing. CitizenAid are covering costs for website, social content and equipment for training.
The total amount of funding to be given by the VRU is £8,000. This will be given to EY3 who will lead on co-creation and video filming and editing.

Operation Pelf: Ongoing investigation regarding a missing person who is suspected to have been murdered.

Operation Sandpiper: Ongoing investigation into the murder of a young male.

In both of the above cases, it is firmly believed that the reward is a necessary addition of the ongoing investigations, to encourage vital intelligence.

The sum of £50,000 be allocated to Operation Pelf for the purpose of a reward.

The sum of £50,000 be allocated to Operation Sandpiper for the purpose of a reward.

One off allocations, total value £100,000

Drug related death (DRD) remains a significant issue at both a local and national level within England and Wales, with 2019’s death registrations showing a new record number of drug poisonings recorded for the eighth consecutive year. The 10 local authorities across Greater Manchester have seen a substantial rise in both drug misuse deaths (48.8%) and deaths from drug poisoning (which include drug misuse deaths) (151.3%) since the ONS began collecting this data in 1993. The rise has been particularly acute since 2013, and the majority of overdose deaths occur outside of the treatment system.
This system will enable data and information to be compiled by local
authority in the following areas:
-demographics and trends
-substances implicated in toxicology
-cause and verdicts of deaths where available
-common themes such as employment/accommodation/relationship
status
-characteristics of deaths
This will build a more detailed picture across GM of what is happening in relation to drug related deaths, help in improving the response to these and assist with delivering the ambition of reducing drug related deaths in GM.

The contract with Liverpool John Moores University for the provision of a Drug and Alcohol Related Deaths Monitoring System is extended for a period of 12-months in accordance with the provisions of the contract.

The value of the 12-month extension is £74,160 reflecting a 3% uplift due to increased costs to the provider. GMCA will commission this system on behalf of the 10 GM local authorities with the local authorities fully funding the system as set out below. Funding has been agreed via the GM Drug and Alcohol Commissioners Group.

Bolton 7,520
Bury 4,995
Manchester 14,459
Oldham 6,201
Rochdale 5,817
Salford 6,769
Stockport 7,674
Tameside 5,923
Trafford 6,207
Wigan 8,595

The NGO Forum is an active network of VCSE and public sector organisations who engage with each other, and Challenger, to share information and build the capacity of all members to identify and tackle modern slavery and human trafficking. Engagement in meetings is voluntary and they last three hours. Providing refreshments supports the ability of people to be able to travel and attend the meetings in person, improving networking capabilities.

Partyline is a Manchester based catering company utilised by GMCA for a range of meetings and events

Up to £1,000 be allocated for Partyline to provide refreshments for attendees to the NGO Forum meetings and other engagement events, hosted by Challenger, during 2022/23.

Media and Design have designed campaign assets for the Challenger Modern Slavery campaign, focusing on forced labour, sexual exploitation and domestic servitude. Work has been undertaken to refresh the assets and web landing page, following a soft launch in October 2022, ahead of hard launch in November 2022.

£2,350 plus VAT be provided to Media and Digital for amends and refresh to campaign material for the Challenger Modern Slavery campaign.

Over the past number of months, the GMCA have been carrying out a Victim Services Strategic Review. The purpose of which is to ensure that services we commission, or grant fund are aligned to strategic priorities; cost effective; achieving the desired outcomes in the Victims Outcomes Framework and most importantly, are supporting the needs of victims.

The review has considered both system and structural issues across the criminal justice system.

As a result of earlier demand modelling work and the development of viable delivery options, the Deputy Mayor and Chief Constable have agreed to progress the development of a Hybrid model for the core ‘Multi-crime gateway service’ which they commission.

In late September 2022, following a tender process (ITT) a preferred provider for the new service was identified however the decision to award the contract to this provider was challenged. As a result of this challenge and a review of the procurement approach, the decision was taken to discontinue the tender and issue a new ITT that will ensure the strategic alignment of linked commissions.

To achieve this GMCA are seeking to secure additional commissioning support that will provide both capacity and capability to the design and evaluation of the new ITT and lead the implementation of the of the new service model.

The aforementioned work has been supported by 2Novate, previous decision and exemption attached, up to this point and it has been agreed through an exemption waiver, that this knowledge and skill base should be continued to the conclusion of the process.

That the consultancy services of ‘2Novate’ be extended to 30 June 2023 in order to provide essential key support for the completion of the procurement process in order to identify a supplier for the GM victims multi-crime gateway service.

1st November 2022 – 30th June 2023
8 x Months = Total £48,500

CIPFA’s Excellence in Policing Finance (EPF) programme works with police forces to build on existing finance capacity, deliver tangible improvements and maximise financial health across the sector.
This 12 month programme will support the development of key skills and processes in policing finance

The Deputy Mayor agrees to part fund the programme with GMP - £20K in total- GMP £10k & GMCA 10k.

The Ministry of Justice announced an in-year uplift to PCC’s core grant funding in August 2022 which had to be spent by March 2023, with no commitments to this continuing after this date. Greater Manchester received £285,000. It was agreed to prioritise this funding on assisting organisations supporting victims with the increased cost-of-living and providing practical support in people accessing services to cope with this over the winter months.

We carried out an expression of interest process to allocate this funding and specified that we would prioritise support for:

• Communities of identity
• No recourse to public funds
• Older People
• People with disabilities

Organisations could bid for a maximum of £25,000 and in the majority of cases we part funded bids following the review of applications.

The fund was oversubscribed and therefore after the undertaking of a robust assessment process it has been agreed to fund an additional £61,498 of funding requests through the Police Property Act Fund. This is due to the evident demand within organisations and the obvious need of people accessing services articulated within applications.

£4593 will to be provided to Manchester City Council for the commissioning of the LGBT IDVA at the LGBT Foundation. This is jointly funded by the GMCA and MCC. MCC have agreed an inflationary uplift with the provider. This is an uplift to their core funding via MCC due to the cost of living and associated pressure on budgets. This uplift will be funded from MoJ victims grant funding.

A total of £351,091 is allocated to organisations supporting victims of crime – primarily organisations working with victims and survivors of domestic abuse and sexual violence to assist with the cost-of-living crisis and supporting those accessing services over the winter months.

£289,593 will be provided through the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) in-year uplift funding to victims’ core grant funding and £61,498 will be provided through the Police Property Act funding. All funding is being used on practical measures such as care packages, additional capacity within services e.g., peer mentor sessions and group counselling, costs to support people accessing services and interpreter costs. Funding awarded is outlined below:

Organisation Amount
Caribbean and African Health Network (CAHN) £8000
Olive Pathway £10,500
Survivors Manchester £12,500
LGBT Foundation £9000 – cost of living uplift funding
£4593 – to be provided to Manchester City Council for the commissioning of the LGBT IDVA at the LGBT Foundation. This is jointly funded by the GMCA and MCC. MCC have agreed an inflationary uplift with the provider. due to the cost of living and associated pressure on budgets. This uplift will come from the MoJ core victims grant funding.

Safety4Sisters £14,040
NESTAC £13,000
GM Law Centre £12,500
Wigan Council (to disseminate through DIAS) £25,000
Endeavour £17,962
Migdal Emunah £12,000
Safenet £10240
WaiYin £9500
Dimobi Children's Disability Trust £7885
The River Manchester £11,600
Pankhurst Trust (Manchester Women’s Aid) £12,000
Manchester Action on Street Health (MASH) £10,000
Action Together Oldham for:
1. Support Action Women’s Network (SAWN)
2. REEL CIC
3. Werneth and Freehold Community Development Project
4. Peaceful Minds CIC
5. UK Education and Faith Foundation (UKeff)
£25,000
Rochdale Women’s Welfare Association (RWWA) £16,700
Rochdale Connections Trust £3000
Victim Support in Rochdale £5000
WHAG £8250
Salford Foundation £12,000
Salford Women’s Aid £7500
Stockport Women’s Centre £8156
Bridges £10,000
LEAP £6500
Trafford Council (for TDAS) £13,100
Stockport without Abuse £12000
Diversity Matters Northwest £13,565
Warm Hut UK £10,000
Total £351,091

GMCA have recently revised and launched a new GM Youth Justice Transformation Plan. As part of promoting the plan and beginning to drive implementation and delivery the Lead DCS for Youth Justice asked that an in-person event be held with partners to support this. We feel this is important to provide a chance for partners to come together, collaborate and identify how we can better work together at a GM level.

The event will be attended by Youth Justice Services, wider local authority colleagues who are key to delivery, GMP and GMCA. The CEO of the Youth Justice Board has agreed to attend to introduce the event to set the national context and Dr Alex Chard, an expert in research in this field, will also be in attendance to provide an input around his research into intergenerational violence and the impacts of this on young people.

£1200 (excl.VAT) to the Chamber of Commerce for room hire for a Youth Justice Transformation Plan event. The room is booked from 12-4:30pm. The venue holds 100 people to accommodate all partners in attendance as this is a large event and there were no other rooms available in Central Manchester on this date or time with this capacity. We need to have this in central Manchester due to accessibility and the external partners attending.

This report provides a robust method of data collection and analysis for a focused 2 week sprint audit to review the prevalence of people presenting to hospitals in Greater Manchester as a result of interpersonal violence. Two previous local reports provided a rich source of data and the aim is to continue to run this audit annually for 5 years in total to allow a rich local comparator dataset across all hospitals in Greater Manchester who receive trauma patients.

In parallel there was a national report funded by NHS England in 2021 using the same methodology.

The Trauma Audit & Research Network (TARN) is the mandated national clinical audit for traumatic injury and collects data from all trauma receiving hospitals across England, Wales and Ireland.

Established in 1990, TARN has become the key national provider for delivering evidence of quality trauma care for both clinical and commissioning purposes.

Through the data submitted to TARN, information is delivered to hospitals in the form of clinical reports and Major Trauma Dashboards to support all trusts in their governance of trauma care. In addition, the organisation is central in providing the facility to support allocation of the Best Practice Tariff for Major Trauma in excess of £60 million per annum across NHS England.

The organisation is able to deliver national quality improvement projects on behalf of Department of Health, NHS England and other healthcare bodies. TARN currently provides hospital level information to support the National Clinical Audit Benchmarking (NCAB) programme which was established by the CQC and HQIP to provide a snapshot of Trust audit data set against individual national benchmarks.

TARN has a strong global reputation in trauma research and holds the largest European trauma registry (approx. 1 million records). In the last 10 years, the group has generated 100+ publications with a further 50+ ongoing research projects within its portfolio.

No other organisation has the infrastructure and access to previous data to support this sprint audit and data analysis.

The GM VRU is seeking to award £5,000 to The University of Manchester to commission a report to review the prevalence of people presenting to hospitals in Greater Manchester as a result of interpersonal violence.

The Greater Manchester Strategy recognises that the pandemic has disproportionately impacted our people and places, and 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.

As outlined within the GM VRU’s Serious Violence Action Plan our ambition to ‘ensure that families and communities that are affected by serious violence are effectively supported through our place-based offer’ (priority 3) recognising the significant impact that violence of any kind can have on the lives of families. In recognition that families can be both an important protective factor and a deterrent. The VRU are committed to promoting the importance of intervening earlier in Greater Manchester so that families can get help when they need it and not just when they hit crisis point. Working in partnership with national and local research institutes and families themselves to get a better understanding of what families that experience violence need so that we can be smarter and more creative about the services we offer to them.

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. There was a notable call for parental education in the context of digital education and positive role modelling in their use of technology and digital interactions. It was agreed that interventions that seek to break the inter-generational concerns should include holistic family approaches for strong, consistent parenting.

The development of the VRU’s Community Led Programmes has found that in many areas of Greater Manchester many families struggle to engage with statutory services and will only engage when they hit a crisis point e.g., when certain behaviours have escalated and are now posing a risk. Parents and carers have welcomed the family support offers available in their areas with one parent who was struggling to get support in place at school with the support of a family worker they would never have known who to go to.

A full competitive tender process will be undertaken, supported and moderated by procurement and Information Governance. A further decision notice will be submitted once the successful bidder has been identified.

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

The Deputy Mayor agrees to the funding allocation of £750,000 of VRU core funding to develop and deliver a programme strength based, trauma informed, support for parents and carers

This funding will be delivered across periods 2022/2023, 2023/2024, 2024/2025. The contract will commence from contract award until 31 March 2025.

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.

In late 2020, the Government announced £10 million of funding in the Budget (from April 2020 to March 2021), for interventions that address the behaviours of domestic abuse perpetrators. This additional investment builds on from the previous Police Transformation Funding but with a particular focus on developing a strong evidence base across PCC’s, to identify successful interventions.

In December 2020 the Home Office announced that GMCA were successful in securing £1,082,129 of funding.

In April 2021 the Home Office explained that they wanted to provide GMCA with additional funding to extend the existing programmes as described in the Original Grant Agreement by a further six months from 1 October 2021 to 31 March 2022.

In late Spring 2022, confirmation from the Home Office was received that they were providing a continuation of funding for the programmes with the same conditions

The schemes are fully funded to total amount of £2,812,146 and GMCA is not required to provide any match-funding in addition to the original match funding.

The funding stream 066 DAP will directly fund TLC to deliver interventions in Manchester, Salford, Stockport and Wigan as per the original grant agreement in December 2020.
Those Programmes will be;

• Children and Young People, The Respect Young People’s Programme for child to parent abuse A programme for adolescent perpetrators
• Female Perpetrators, 1-2-1 programme delivery for female perpetrators in heterosexual or same sex relationships
• Male Perpetrators, Bridging to Change group behaviour change programme for male perpetrators in heterosexual relationships
• Perpetrators who speak English as a second language respect 1-2-1 programme for perpetrators (male or female) who speak English as a second language

The funding Stream 066 Drive will continue to deliver the national Drive model which will deliver interventions for high risk, high harm perpetrators will be delivered in Manchester and Salford. The Drive National Team will continue to work closely with TLC to ensure effective delivery of the model.

A robust evaluation framework will be embedded into the programme and conducted by the GMCA Research team. This will provide an evidence base across a range of perpetrator interventions and risk levels, applying a whole system approach throughout which will help inform future commissioning conversations at both a local and regional level.


The Funding Stream 066 DAPP, will support general perpetrator interventions and be grant funded to local authorities.

The Funding Stream 066 CYP will support child and adolescent interventions and be grant funded to local authorities.

This is a continuation of the second round of funding from August 21.

The funding is aimed to increase the geographic expansion of programmes and the target cohort through adaptation of programmes to reach wider needs.
Grants will be provided to PCCs as the lead partner, but the expectation is that PCCs will deliver the intervention in collaboration with a partner organisation.

As a part of the bid that has been accepted by the home office it was agreed that Local Authorities within GM would be the partner organisation.

GMCA have been successful in securing an extension to the Home Office grant funding, to support the continuation of perpetrator-focused domestic abuse interventions.

In the original pilot areas in December 2020, were Salford, Manchester, Wigan and Stockport where TLC were identified as our delivery partner, given that we already have a commissioning relationship with them, which complies with the Home Office conditions.

The conditions to the extension are the same as the original funding, therefore this is a continuation of the original grant agreement.

066 DAP Pand 066 Drive are the new Home Office grant agreements for this element of the funding.

The funding for this element will be awarded to Talk, Listen, Change (TLC) for the delivery of a range of perpetrator programmes set out in the DAPP grant agreement and the Drive Grant Agreement

This includes:

• £243,997 (Drive Programme Fund)
• £1,051600 (Domestic Abuse Perpetrator Programme Fund)
• A total amount of £1,295,597



Greater Manchester Combined Authority have also been successful in an extension to the round 2 funding and will be receiving a grant from the Home Office for Domestic Abuse Perpetrator work.

The funding was aimed to increase the geographic expansion of programmes and the target cohort through adaptation of programmes to reach wider needs.

Adult 066 grant agreement and 066 CYP grant agreements.

The element of this funding is that grants will be provided to PCCs as the lead partner, but the expectation is that PCCs will deliver the intervention in collaboration with a partner organisation.

Local Authorities within GM will continue to be partner organisation’s and commission a range of perpetrator programmes set out in the Adult and CYP grant agreements:

This includes;

? £992,050 for to support general perpetrator interventions(Adult)

? £524,499 for to support child and adolescent interventions. (CYP)


A total amount for Adult & CYP is £1,516,549


A total amount for all 4 elements of the Home Office Extension 066 is –

£2,812,146

For the Adult and the CYP interventions the rest of Greater Manchester will be in receipt of funding as follows;

• GMCA have allocated £167, 000 Bolton for adult interventions,
For Bolton to Commission, TRAC Psychological (Inner Strength) to deliver a range of perpetrator programmes including expand Inner Strength: strength-based therapeutic interventions for perpetrators & victims

• GMCA have allocated £335,000 Bury Interventions

£185,000 for TLC: Talk, Listen, Change to deliver the Drive Programme, this funding will be paid directly to TLC to extend current Drive provision into Bury
£100,00 for Bury for adult interventions,
• For Bury Council to Commission TLC to deliver a range of perpetrator programmes, New DAPPs for men in heterosexual relationships & adapted 121 programme for ESOL & those in gay & bisexual relationships

£ 50,000 For Children and Young people interventions
• For Bury Council to commission TLC to deliver, Child Respect Young People’s Programme for CYP (children & young people) age 10-16 abusive or violent towards parents/carers.
• For Bury Council to commission TLC to deliver, Child TLC Healthy Relationships Programme adapted & shortened version of TLC’s DAPP (behaviour change programme), for CYP age 10+ violent towards intimate partners / peers.


• GMCA have allocated. £187,000 for Oldham Interventions

£100,00 for Oldham for adult interventions,
• For Oldham Council to Commission TLC to deliver a range of perpetrator programmes, New DAPPs for men in heterosexual relationships & adapted 121 programme for ESOL & those in gay & bisexual relationships
£ 87,000 For Children and Young people interventions,
• For Oldham Council to commission TLC to deliver, Child Respect Young People’s Programme for CYP (children & young people) age 10-16 abusive or violent towards parents/carers.
• For Oldham Council to commission TLC to deliver, Child TLC Healthy Relationships Programme adapted & shortened version of TLC’s DAPP (behaviour change programme), for CYP age 10+ violent towards intimate partners / peers.

• GMCA have allocated £234,000 for Rochdale for adult interventions,
£135,000 for TLC: Talk, Listen, change to deliver the Drive Programme, this funding will be paid directly to TLC to extend current Drive provision.
For Children and Young people
£31,039 for Rochdale to commission a VCSE provider to deliver Child to Parent Abuse and Intimate Partner Abuse and £68,960 for the Early Help Team to also deliver Child to Parent Abuse and Intimate Partner Abuse a total of – £99,999
• GMCA have allocated. £445,000 to Tameside
£245,000 for adult interventions,
High risk perpetrators - Expand Roots Tenancy Support & Compliance Service (for MAPPA & PPO high-risk offenders) to work with perpetrators
£ 200,000 For Children and Young people interventions
• For Tameside Council to Commission TLC to deliver a Child to Parent Abuse programme Respect Young People’s Programme for CYP (children & young people) age 10-16 abusive or violent towards parents/carers. Covers: Insight into violence & abuse & its’ effects, Emotional regulation, Solution focused work & goal setting

• GMCA have allocated £147,500 for Trafford Interventions
£60,000 for Trafford to allocate to adult interventions,
• Make a Change Perpetrator Programme
£ 87,500 For Children and Young people interventions
• For Trafford Council to commission TLC to deliver, Child Respect Young People’s Programme for CYP (children & young people) age 10-16 abusive or violent towards parents/carers.
• For Trafford Council to commission TLC to deliver, Child TLC Healthy Relationships Programme adapted & shortened version of TLC’s DAPP (behaviour change programme), for CYP age 10+ violent towards intimate partners / peers.
Grant agreements for all 4 funding streams are attached to this decision notice.

HMPPS approached GMCA in February 2022 having identified an internal Reducing Reoffending budget underspend. The addendum attached to the original Decision notice ( 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.


A senior governance board for GMIRS oversees and scrutinises the overall programme of work, including this spending plan

It has been agreed to support specific projects with capital spend relating to the original decision notice, those extra projects will be;

Back on Track - Refurbishment of Wellbeing room: £9,850
The Women’s Alliance - Cyber Essentials: £11,760
The Women’s Alliance - Vetting: £2,000

It presents an excellent opportunity to develop public health and harm reduction approaches with GMP for a relatively small investment.

GMP do not currently have a bespoke Drugs Policy or Strategy and this cross cutting thematic is widely acknowledged as a demand driver in crime and health provision.

Jason Kew is a subject matter expert and former Detective Chief Inspector with Thames Valley Police and Violence Reduction Unit.

He led the development of Thames Valley’s cross sector Drug Related Harm Reduction Forum, fusing together partnerships, communities, and service providers to enable the joint commissioning of diversion schemes, peer recovery worker Naloxone training for drug users and police officers, and the installation of needle exchange points in custody suites.

He was the Home Office appointed Southeast Heroin and Crack Action Area Coordinator and undertook a yearlong review into drug use, supply, and harm reduction across the Southeast. He is a member of The Faculty for Public Health, has a fellowship with the University of South Wales Substance Use Research Group, and serves on the Boards of the ISSUP (International Society for Substance Use Professionals) and GLEPHA (Global Law Enforcement and Public Health).

The decision is that:
GMCA and GMP will jointly fund consultancy work led by Jason Kew to develop a GMP and GMCA Drug Framework and Delivery Plan.

The cost of 10 days of Jason Kew’s services will be £4,750 inclusive of all expenses and taxes.

An Asset Recovery Incentivisation Scheme (ARIS) bid has been approved by GMP for £2,375 (half the total costs). Matched funding of £2,375 will be provided by GMCA.

It is proposed that that over a period of two months he will:

• Work alongside Mark Knight the Strategic Lead for Substance Misuse at GMCA, who is fully sighted and supportive of this proposal and bid;
• Conduct research into existing drug strategies, and align recommendations with national and regional GMP and GMCA strategic objectives;
• Consult with the National Police Chief Council Drugs Lead (Mark Lay, who has agreed to work with Jason) as well as regional drugs leads and experts from ISSUP (International Society for Substance Use Professionals) and other academic and medical expert forums, to identify solutions and innovative approaches not already considered by existing drug strategies; and
• Engage at every opportunity with people with lived experience and draw upon the knowledge and experience of those people to shape the delivery of the final framework, attending either in person or remotely (where permitted), strategic, stakeholder, and community meetings.

Three local authorities will be taking forward an accelerated change management programme to implement the new Adolescent Safeguarding Framework with direct support from the VRU. Local authority Directors of Children’s Services (DCSs) have asked for the procurement of an expert change management consultant to support implementation of Phase 1. Zoe Appleton Consulting (ZAC) has been identified as an appropriate expert change consultant at at a cost of £60k for six months starting December 2022.

To approve the Zoe Appleton Consulting (ZAC) to deliver Change Management support to three GM local Authorities (to be selected by the VRU in December 2022), to implement the Adolescent Safeguarding Framework as agreed at November 2022 GM Children’s Board.


To be delivered December 2022 to May 2023
Value £60,000

There is currently a great deal of media publicity and topical debate related to school-based harassment, bullying and the pressures faced by the native digital generation impacting on mental health and resilience. Schools are well placed to support young people to use technology safely but given the 24/7 nature of digital communications cannot do so efficiently in isolation. There is a call for GM school to access staff for training and programme for their young person in tandem with effective parental engagement and a whole community approach to online protocols.

The GM VRU invited expressions of interest and requested quotes via the network of extended partners connected to the four VRU delivery strands between May – July 2022.

Further to the previously published Decision Notice. This notice is an amendment of an original notice published in September 2022 takes into account the additional charges in respect of administrative work, not factored in the original notice which was to the value of £34,999.

The GM VRU are seeking to award Zoe Appleton Consultancy £44,999 to deliver phase 3 of the Social Switch Project for safer digital access for Young People across Greater Manchester over the academic year 2022/23 between September 2022 and July 2023.

The project specification has been distributed between VRU partners via the delivery strand networks and extended to partners across GM.
Having received one return in the form of a fully costed proposal, Zoe Appleton Consulting are deemed able to deliver against the specification criteria.

Zoe Appleton Consultancy was previously awarded £46,800 to deliver phase 1 and 2 of the Social Switch programme out of the 2020/21 and 2021/22 Serious Violence funding following a successful quote submission. The funding amount awarded to Zoe Appleton since the 2021/22 funding cycle totals to £91,799

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

To deliver against these objectives, the VRU has a content plan for the year.
This includes using our existing channels (VRU website, social media accounts, earned media) to reach young people and parents with key messages;
- Positive alternatives to violence
- Opportunities
- Voice of lived experience - other young people, members of the community
- Violence reduction campaigns

We are continually trying to grow the number of young people we reach with our messages and are keen to use radio as a new way of reaching people by tapping into existing and regular audiences.

The VRU is seeking a supplier to produce and air radio content specifically aimed at young people in Greater Manchester. We are looking to use radio as an additional way of reaching more young people and young people that can be hard to reach through our existing platforms – VRU website and social channels.

Content to be determined by young people but to include key topics, guest interviews etc.

The budget for this commission has been set at a maximum of £30,000.