Decisions

The Victim Service Coordinators and Lead role were introduced in Sept 2017, as a pivotal element of the victims of crime 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.

Following the ongoing review of victim services across Greater Manchester which commenced in 2019/2020, a number of key successes and key challenges / opportunities for the Victims Service Coordinators were identified. This is currently being used to scope options for a redesign of the service, which can be worked into a practical delivery model. Whilst this work is undertaken, an extension of the current service is required to continue key support.

The continuation of the Victim Services Coordinators service over this 6-month duration will also allow consistency of support whilst the newly commissioned co-located victims multi-crime service is mobilised over late 2023 and into 2024.

To extend the funding of the GMP Victim Services Transformation Lead role and 11 Victim Services Coordinators posts, for a further 3 months from 30th September 2023 to 31st March 2024.

Total funding to be approved is for the Victim Services Transformation Lead role and the 11 Victim Services Coordinators is £291,000. The cost of extending the Victim Services Coordinators and Lead role from 30th September 2023 to 31st March 2024 are as follows:

• Victim Services Coordinators x 11 = £260,000
• Victim Services Lead - £ 31,000

TOTAL: £291,00 (6 months)

The extension of the posts will be funded via the annual MOJ Victims Budget allocation for 23/24.

Friends Meeting House:
The First Violence Reduction Roundtable, attended by the Mayor, Deputy Mayor , Chief Constable and a range of organisations across GM agreed there should be a second such event later in the year to check progress. The first roundtable was restricted to 36 people, due to space restrictions at the Tootal Building. This venue offers a cost effective alternative to accommodate up to 60 attendees and enable greater opportunity to garner community views.

Party Line Catering:
On Wednesday 28th September 2022, the GMVRU will be Hosting a visit for Martin Griffiths, National Clinical Director for Violence Reduction at NHS England and Clinical Lead for Violence Reduction in NHS London. The event will provide Martin with the opportunity to find out more about the programmes of work delivered by the GMVRU as well as meet the various members of the team.

The Greater Manchester Violence Reduction Unit are to make the following payments for VRU hosted events:

Friends Meeting House:
A payment to be made of £512.50 to book a room at Friends Meeting House, Manchester for the Violence Reduction Roundtable event on Friday 21st October 2022 as well as catering (Teas, coffees and Biscuits) for the 50 meeting attendees.

Party Line Catering:
A payment of £82.50 to be made to party line catering to provide catering for 15 people during Martin Griffith’s visit of the GM VRU on Wednesday 28th September 2022.

There has been significant instability and uncertainty within the GMFRS Principal Officer team during the last two years. Following the completion of the recent appointments to the GMFRS Principal Officer Team the Chief Fire Ofiicer now has confidence in the capability and leadership of the new PO Team.

Key issues for GMFRS in the short term are, publication of Volume 2 of the Manchester Arena Inquiry, scheduled for November 2022, a full round 3 HMICFRS inspection in 2023 and incorporation of Building Safety Legislative Reforms into local arrangements, all of which inextricably link to public safety. Progress being made from a HMICFRS perspective, must not only be maintained, but built upon further during the year ahead

The Chief Fire Officer’s recommendations for the stability, continuity and resilience of the Principal Officer Team are agreed.

Following competition Intec Systems Limited emerged as the preferred supplier.

Due to the high profile nature of the activities this procurement supports, a method statements threshold score of 60 % for quality was implemented to ensure bid responses both exceeded the requirements and to provide GMP with a high level of reassurance that the winning supplier can deliver the services stated.

Intec Systems Limited exceeded this threshold for both lots 1 and 2.

The Deputy Mayor approves the award of a 3 year contract for provision of Party Political Conference and Major Event Support Services to assist the National Accreditation Team (NAT), for Lot 1 and Lot 2, to Intec Systems Limited, with the option to extend for a further 3 years. The likely value of 6 years spend would be circa £1.4 million.

To deliver priority two of the gender-based violence delivery plan: initiate a sustained programme of public engagement to raise awareness of, and tackle, gender-based abuse and violence across the city-region.

GMCA will fund £150,000 to Hitch Marketing Ltd to deliver an insight gathering, communications and PR campaign to run from September 2022 to the end of March 2023.

The campaign will aim to change the behaviour of primarily men and boys to tackle gender-based violence against, primarily, women and girls in Greater Manchester.

In August 2019, the Mayor announced during the GM Reform Board that GM’s approach to tackling violence would be “community-led” in line with the GMs’ ambitious public service reform programme, which led to the establishment of the GM Community-Led Programme (CLP).

The key focus of the CLP is ensuring that young people and stakeholders in a specific locality or place come together, focussing on a strength based approach in the pilot sites to identify what work is already taking place , what gaps may exist and what the opportunities might be to address these gaps. Key to this approach is harnessing and building on existing strengths and capacity from within the community to develop projects and activities..

The programme is co-ordinated by a VCSE Sector Strategic Lead (Michael Phipps) who is working with Public Sector and VCSE sector partners to deliver the programme and is based within the GM VRU.

The VCSE Sector Strategic Lead is responsible for maximising the contribution of the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector in leading a series of place-based responses to violence affecting young people in those areas most in need of help and in achieving better outcomes for residents in those communities. The VRU Community-Led Delivery Group has been formed to oversee and scrutinise the overall programme of work, including the spending plan.

This programme is about working with communities to find solutions to problems that exist in their area. Investment is important and there is funding available to develop and deliver solutions that communities define and collectively agree on. The key priority is about building trust with communities and acting upon their challenges and ideas through prioritising a range of shared actions.

To date, the CLP is operating at various levels across 8 GM areas;
Manchester
Bolton
Bury
Salford
Oldham
Rochdale
Tameside
Wigan.
The further investment will support the CLP to Identify an additional 2 areas (Trafford and Stockport) as well as provide funding for a further 12 months in Bolton, Salford and Manchester.

The GM VRU has also committed a further £300,000 to enable each programme area to recruit Community-led Coordinator within the VCSE sector, who will support the VCSE Coordinator in the roll out and sustainability of the Community-led programmes.

The GM VRU award to Bolton Community Voluntary Sector (CVS) £875,000, by way of Grant funding, to support in the delivery and administration of the VRU’s Community-Led Pilots Programme on behalf of 10 GM. This further investment in the GM Community-led Programme will fund the following;

Establish Community-led programmes within the remaining two areas (£200,000 in Trafford and Stockport)

Provide £100,000 in funding to Bolton, Salford and Manchester in 2022/23 (£300,000 in total) to enable them to continue to develop their respective Community-led Programmes

£75,000 to fund a VCSE Sector Strategic Lead who’ll be working with Public Sector and VCSE sector partners to deliver the programme and is based within the GM VRU.

Furthermore, the VRU will award £300,000 (£30,000 each) in capacity building funding to enable local areas to recruit a Community-led Coordinator within the VCSE sector, who will support the VCSE Coordinator in the roll out and sustainability of the Community-led programmes.

To date, the GM VRU have awarded Bolton CVS a total of £780,000 from the 2020/21 and 21/22 Serious Violence Funding to support the Community-Led Programme. This will bring the total funding amount to £1,655,000

The ‘I Am Greater’ Campaign is one of the GM VRU’s flagship communications and engagement programmes, which focuses on deterring the young people of Greater Manchester from violence.

Over the past 2 years, the GM VRU have worked closely with Hitch Marketing to design and develop new and unique communications and engagement material to continue to develop and promote the ‘I Am Greater’ Campaign, with the purpose of teaching young people to be ‘greater than violence’

The GM VRU is seeking to award Hitch Marketing additional funding to further develop the ‘I am Greater’ campaign through development of a violence themed mural in areas across GM as well as giving YPs padlocks to attach in designated areas to show their commitment to being greater than violence.


The GM VRU are also seeking to use the expertise of Hitch Radio to develop communications content for the GM Navigator Programme
The Greater Manchester Navigator Programme is a youth-focused, violence reduction project based in four Greater Manchester hospitals. The four hospitals involved; Royal Bolton Hospital, Salford Royal Hospital, Manchester Royal Infirmary and Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital, treat a high volume of violence related trauma in young people.
The team are based in the hospitals, working with young people age 10-25, helping them to cope and recover from their experience, and assisting with access to local support networks to prevent the potential of further violence

The GM VRU is seeking to award Hitch Marketing to deliver the following services:

Cover the account management costs for the second phase of the ‘I am Greater Campaign’, including school resources and physical displays - £3,850

The purchasing of Locks, stickers, and selfie boards for I am greater physical display of commitment to being greater than violence - £1,844

Payment for an artist to design and develop murals in areas across GM as part of the I Am Greater campaign as well as costings for a film crew to create promotional videos - £8,410

The Development of editable Communications content for the Greater Manchester Navigator Programme - £4,335

Total amount to be awarded to Hitch Marketing - £18,439

GMCA have run a competitive process and the three bidders listed above were the only bids received but all were considered good enough quality to proceed to award.

10 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 three contracts as part of the Skills Bootcamps programme to support 196 learners to train into manufacturing roles during 2022/23.
Contracts will be awarded to the following suppliers:
• Salford City College: Industrial Textiles Technician
• Rochdale Training: Welding
• 3D 360 Limited: Introduction to Additive Manufacturing (AM) and 3D Computer Aided Design.

Delivery is expected to start no later than end of October 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.

Following competition Mitie Care & Custody Ltd emerged as the preferred supplier.

Approval is given to award a contract for Police Custody Healthcare and Forensic Services to Mitie Care & Custody Ltd, for an initial period of 5 years and with the option to extend for a further 2 years. The expected value of the contract over the full 7-year duration is circa £22.91m.

Approval for increased investment in the scheme is sought in line with the strategic objectives of the GMCA to increase the supply of housing in the GM area.

1. To approve a GM Housing Investment Loan Fund loan of £1.670m to Splash Developments Ltd for the construction of 8 houses on a site in Woodhouses, Oldham. This represents an increase of £70k on the loan approved for the scheme by the Combined Authority in July 2020.
2. To delegate authority to the GMCA Treasurer acting in conjunction with the GMCA Monitoring Officer to prepare and effect the necessary legal agreements.

The investment into The Modular Analytics Company Limited (“TMAC”) is in line with the strategic objectives of the business investment strategy and the Local Industrial Strategy and support the key objectives of supporting our globally competitive strengths and strengthening the foundations of our economy. TMAC operates in the Digital & Creative sector.

The Combined Authority gave approval on 29 July 2022 to give delegated authority for the period 30 July 2022 to 29 September 2022 to the Combined Authority Chief Executive and the Combined Authority Treasurer, in consultation with the Portfolio Lead Leader for Investment and Resources, to approve funding requests for projects in the absence of a Combined Authority meeting at the end of August 2022, and approve any urgent variations on amounts and terms for already approved loans.

Any recommendations approved under the delegation will be subject to the usual due diligence processes and will be reported to the Combined Authority at the next available meeting.

a) approve an investment of up to £400,000 into The Modular Analytics Company Limited;

b) delegate authority to the Combined Authority Treasurer and Combined Authority Monitoring Officer to review the due diligence information in respect of the above investment, and, subject to their satisfactory review and agreement of the due diligence information and the overall detailed commercial terms of the investment, to sign off any outstanding conditions, issue final approvals and complete any necessary related documentation in respect of the investment noted above.