Decisions

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 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

Following procurement competition Adecco UK Ltd. emerged as the preferred supplier of Police specialist agency resources.

The Deputy Mayor approves the award of a 7 year contract for the provision of Agency Resources (Police Specialist Roles), to Adecco UK Ltd. The likely value of 7 years spend would be circa £38.5m

Approval was given in November 2021 to use the CCS Crown Hosting framework (RM1069) for GMP’s Data Centre Hosting Services. This framework has a single supplier, Crown Hosting Data Centres Limited (CHDCL).

The Deputy Mayor approves the award of a for the award of a 5 year contract for Data Centre Hosting Services, to Crown Hosting Data Centres Limited (CHDCL), with the option to extend for a further 2 years. The likely value of 7 years spend would be circa £1.5m

GMP needs an interim arrangement to maintain its current provision for police specialist roles (currently 189 contractors) and have an immediate ability to recruit additional contractors if required until the proposed contract using the Bluelight Commercial Organisation Framework can be implemented.

The Deputy Mayor approves the direct award of a 6 month contract for the provision of Agency Resources (Police Specialist Roles), to Reed Talent Solutions, using the Yorkshire Purchasing Organisation Framework -Managing Temporary and Permanent Recruitment – 942 framework, with the option to extend for a further 6 months. The likely value of 1 year spend would be circa £5.5m.

Following competition Reed Talent Solutions emerged as the preferred supplier

The Deputy Mayor approves the award of a 3 year contract for the supply of temporary admin / clerical / IS roles, to Reed Talent Solutions, with the option to extend for a further 1 year. The likely value of 4 years spend would be circa £6.88m.

GMP establishment in 2010 was at c12,000 officers and staff (8,000 officers and 4,000 staff). These numbers reduced over subsequent years during the extended period of austerity. The requirement to find savings and to reduce estates capacity, in line with the reductions in officers and staff, meant that the Force followed a strategy of disposing of the older, more expensive to maintain, building stock and the surrender of leases. The increases in establishment over recent years, together with the predicted growth in numbers during 2022/23, will return officer and staff numbers to the 2010 level. However, there is insufficient capacity within the Force estate to accommodate the increased officer/staff numbers. This is particularly apparent at Central Park with pressures on space being felt within both the City of Manchester District Headquarters and the Force Headquarters buildings.
Taking additional space on Central Park will relieve the space pressures. It will also provide much needed meeting space.

GMCA work with GMP Business Support Services to agree heads of terms for one and a half floors (fully furnished) of the former Fujitsu Building at Central Park as a short-term sub lease with a view to occupying that space asap (estimated from June 2022). Specifically, this sub lease is for a period of two and a half years at a budgeted rental cost in 2022/23 of £400k, with almost 200 desk spaces for use by the 700 currently displaced staff

Procurement legislation requires GMP to tender for these goods and services. The recommended route provides the most effective route to market.

The framework and contract will enable the supply of First Aid Training courses for Police Officers and Staff, carrying out practical scenario training and continued annual refresher courses in core skills and scenarios. The courses provided will include First Aid at Work, Emergency First Aid, Custody First Aid, and Firearms and Public Order requirements

Approval is given to tender a framework for the supply of First Aid Training. The Framework shall be tendered in 1 LOT covering First Aid at Work, Emergency First Aid, Custody First Aid, and Firearms and Public Order requirements using an open tender. The framework will be for a 4 year term.

GMP intends to use the framework to call-off its own contract for First Aid Training. This contract will be for 3 years, with the option to extend for a further 4 years

Procurement legislation requires GMP to tender for these goods and services. The recommended route provides the most effective route to market

Approval is given to tender the contract for the supply of Police Custody Healthcare and Forensic Services utilising the open tender process.

This further S22A Agreement relating to the Modern Slavery and Organised Immigration Crime Programme covers the period 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022 It can be extended if all parties agree.

The mission statement of the Programme is ‘Protecting vulnerable people by driving and embedding an innovative, consistent, and effective policing response to modern slavery and organised immigration crime’

The Lead Policing Body and Lead Chief Constable are Devon and Cornwall.

The purpose is provide a national team - see schedule 5. .

The Leads have agreed not to withdraw from their roles prior to the expiry of the Grant Agreement.

The Deputy Mayor authorises the entering into of the above S.22A agreement, for the Modern Slavery and Organised Immigration Crime Programme.

This service is designed to support the police to navigate the health and social care system in cases which involve conveyance to hospital, liaison with community mental health teams, and in particular when they are considering detention under section 136 of the Mental Health Act 1983.

The service provides Mental Health Practitioners who are based in the GMP Force Contact Centre (Vulnerability Support Unit) at the Greater Manchester Police Force Headquarters.

The contract is a joint agreement between GMP and NHS England.

A direct award is appropriate under regulation 12 (7) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 relating to the award of contracts which establish or implement co-operation between contracting authorities

The Deputy Mayor approves the direct award of a 1 year contract for a contract for Mental Health Tactical Advice services, to Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. The likely value of 1 year spend for GMP would be circa £483K.

The provision of Healthcare in Custody and Liaison and Diversion in GMP custody suites is currently provided by Mitie to GMP. The contract, including a 9-month extension, will finish at the end of October 2022.

The management of the existing contract is shared jointly between PCC and Health budgets and the post is currently part of the NHS (HSCP) establishment.

The existing postholder is due for the provision of the contract management function will leave the post in My 2022 and there is an urgent need to bring in capacity to undertake the function of the recommissioning of the Healthcare in Custody contract and ongoing contract management following contract award.

It has been agreed that due to the nature of the business this function will become part of the GMP establishment and funds will be passed to GMP to allow this permanent post to be established within GMP structures.

Due to the nature of the business of the contract, it has been agreed that GMP will undertake this appointment and contract management responsibility.

The new contract will not include Liaison and Diversion and Health colleagues will continue to provide this service through a separate contract and contract management arrangement.

Up to a maximum of £48, 189 be passed to GMP for the immediate provision of capacity to undertake the function of commissioning and contracts management for the recommissioning and ongoing management of a new contract for custody healthcare to come into effect from 1st November 2022.

Procurement legislation requires GMP to tender for these goods and services. The recommended route provides the most effective route to market.

This service includes the provision of interpreters for detainees in custody and tele-phone interpreting for 999/101 calls

Approval is given to tender the contract for the supply of interpreting and translation services using the UK Police Service Language Services framework

As noted on the StreetGames website; “StreetGames harnesses the power of sport to create positive change in the lives of disadvantaged young people right across the UK. StreetGames' work helps to make young people and their communities healthier, safer and more successful”.

The responsibilities of the funded role will include the following:

• To manage the GM VRU Community Sport budget (£75,000)
• To support the GM EISYJ Partnership and ensure connections are in place with all key stakeholders/practitioners e.g. Criminal Justice, Education, Health, Police and Locally Trusted Organisations etc. across GM at a regional, local authority and place-based level.
• Connect & collaborate, including supporting funding bids, across the GM sport and physical activity sector on violence reduction in line with the VRU priorities and GM PSR principles.
• Provide briefings to VRU regarding national, regional and local developments and wider opportunities.
• Development of a quality assured framework and evidence of effective referral pathways in place in locations in GM.
• Work with the VRU evaluation team to develop and disseminate evaluation and guidelines for effective early intervention - including a providers’ toolkit.
• Work with stakeholders to ensure data provision and information exchange inside the VRU, across the existing community support network and with partners is robust and efficient so can demonstrate the impact of sporting interventions to reduce crime, the fear of crime and anti-social behaviour through sport.
• Continue to enhance the understanding of investment into community sport for the reduction of serious violence in GM and to learn from best practice across the UK as to how funding can be best utilised.
• Support the 10 (ten) GM community sport provider networks, including driving the growth of the network and assessing ability to deliver across the ‘risk spectrum’ e.g. from diversionary activity through to long term mentoring support (i.e. who’s best placed to deliver which type of intervention).

The Greater Manchester Violence Reduction Unit is seeking to award StreetGames £29,166 to fund a Community Sport Coordinator’s role for three days per week within the VRU

The GM VRU is requesting that the role is funded out of the VRU’s Serious Violence funding reserves

The Criminal Justice 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 as domestic abuse in the family home and/or societal experiences of being part of an ethnic minority community. The providers and projects have been selected on the basis of their ability to deliver against these priorities.

The GM VRU to award the following organisations out the GM VRU Criminal Justice Delivery Strand Budget Line:
Dignifi
£44,750 - For the delivery of 12-month contract to provide training to national probation and youth justice service staff regarding young people and young adults who have experienced domestic abuse.
£44,440 - For the delivery of 12-month contract to provide training to national probation and youth justice service staff regarding care leavers, including delivery of direct interventions to young people who are care experienced.
City Wall
£44,990 - For the delivery of 12-month contract to provide mentoring to children and young people in custody (and into the community), linked to serious violence, in Manchester and Salford
CIAO
£5,000 – To deliver on a small scale coaching programme to young women in Styal prison, based on a proposal submitted for delivery.
Achieve
£820 – To contribute to existing personalised budget fund fo enable spot purchasing to support offender managers engaging people on probation into education, training or employment.
Funding to be awarded via Grant Funding Agreement:
HMPPS Hindley
£45,000 – For the procurement of targeted interventions to work with Greater Manchester prisoners aged 18-25 in the Hindley estate, who have been involved in violence through offences of during time in the prison estate via a Grant Funding Agreement between the GMVRU/GMCA and HMP Hindley
Total Funding Amount Allocated: £185,000

GMCA have run a competitive process and Seetec’s submission scored highest after evaluation.

3 submissions were received and were sent to a full evaluation panel. All submissions were checked by GMCA’s Information Governance Team and were found to be acceptable. The finances of the bidding companies were also checked, along with the safeguarding policies submitted.

The Invitation to Tender comprised of 3 parts, covering (75%) Quality, (15%) Social Value and (10%) Price.

Following evaluation and moderation, Seetec were ranked highest of the three bids. However, all three providers had submitted Social Value responses that were deemed as ‘poor’. GMCA therefore asked all of the bidders to resubmit a revised Social Value response. Following evaluation and moderation of these resubmissions, Seetec remained the highest ranked bid.

The Successful provider’s scores were deemed acceptable and comprehensive throughout their submission and offered an economically advantageous tender. Seetec scored higher than the unsuccessful bidders in a number of questions, and the evaluation panel were particularly impressed with their responses concerning their mobilisation and implementation plan, their engagement and stakeholder management, their performance management and monitoring.

Following a competitive procurement process using GMCA’s Education Work and Skills Flexible Procurement System, GMCA wishes to award a £1,000,000 contract to Seetec Business Technology Centre Ltd. This is part of the Skills for Growth programme and focuses on skills in the logistics sector.
Delivery is expected to start no later than end of May 2022, enrolments must finish by end of March 2023, and all contract activity and support must conclude by the end of September 2023. Exceptional performance may result in discussions around extension option being implemented.

The investment into Northern Gritstone Limited (“Northern Gritstone”) 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. Northern Gritstone operates in the Financial Services sector.

The Combined Authority gave approval on 25 March 2022 to give delegated authority for the period 26 March 2022 to 26 May 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 April 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) the funding application by Northern Gritstone (“Northern Gritstone”) (investment of £1,500,000) be given conditional approval and progress to due diligence; and
b) delegate to the Combined Authority Treasurer and Combined Authority Monitoring Officer to review the due diligence information in respect of the company, and, subject to their satisfactory review and agreement of the due diligence information and the overall detailed commercial terms of the transaction, to sign off any outstanding conditions, issue final approvals and complete any necessary related documentation in respect of the investment.