Decisions

GMP have pioneered modern slavery training for police officers that has now been adopted by the National College of Policing for roll out to all forces. Since the Modern Slavery Coordination Unit was established in 2015, provision of training and awareness raising has been an essential part of the unit’s model, ensuring that knowledge on how to identify, support and investigate cases of modern slavery are spread across policing resources (and wider partners) and not held by a small number of specialists.
As the Unit has grown, a dedicated Training Coordinator has been added to the team, along with an embedded Victim Navigator (provided by Justice and Care. The victim navigator has supported over 25 victims and survivors through medium to long term care plans, enabling recovery and reintegration from their exploitative situation. One of the victims that has been supported has expressed a desire to share their story as part of this process, as a way to highlight what did and didn’t work in terms of services provided to her by agencies.
This video can be used by the Unit and the training coordinator to raise awareness of the victim's perspective in modern slavery cases. Delivering this through a video enables the resource to be utilised in a variety of settings and training packages, which can be tailored by the coordinator, to ensure the furthest possible reach.

A total of £4,970 be awarded to Justice and Care to develop a video of a modern slavery survivor story to support in training and awareness raising among police and wider partners working in the field.

The equipment will be used for the demonstration of how to put pressure on a wound on the safer street’s roadshow.
The shoulder thigh trainers provide the hands on and visual aspect of wounds and makes the interaction with e students very realistic. The use of this equipment will benefit the students who attend the safety roadshows with hands on experience for stopping the bleed as well as CPR practice with real time feedback on how well they are delivering chest compressions.

The GM VRU awards Safeguard Medical £2,726.88 for the purchasing of 2 shoulder/thigh trainers and 2 CPR mannequins on behalf of the Northwest Ambulance Services (NWAS) to be used at the GM Safety Roadshows and NWAS-led Train the trainer programmes.

Media cubs work with young people who are interested in becoming journalists or have a passion for social issues across GM. The GM VRU have previously worked with Media Cubs on a series of Communications and Engagement content, covering;
The criminal justice system
Policing
Interviews with the Deputy Mayor and partners of the GM VRU

The above services will focus on key GM VRU organised events such as the Hope Hack event (14th October 2022), as well as provide blog and video content on topics that are of interest to YPs across GM.

The GM VRU is seeking to award Media Cubs £2800 to deliver the following:

3 virtual interviews/press conferences with a write up of each. Facilitated by one Media Cubs leader. Full video plus three clips for social media.
3 in person events; working with young people involved in the event to upskill them as reporters:
• One virtual preparation session ahead of each event to meet and train new reporters in the basics: interviewing, planning interview questions, script planning etc
• Two leaders attending the event 1 hour early to prep the media squad to use the equipment.
• Supporting up to six young people to host a media HQ at each event and film, present and interview attendees.
• Edited YouTube video with three snippet videos for social media.

Following competition Capita Translation and Interpreting Ltd emerged as the preferred supplier.

The Deputy Mayor approves the award of a 2 contract for Interpreting and Translation services, to Capita Translation and Interpreting Ltd, with the option to extend for a further 2 years. The likely value of 4 years spend would be circa £1.8m.

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.

GMCA approved the process of extending existing grant-agreements and procured contracts for a further academic year and The Mayor and GMCA approved the same allocations into 2022/2023 subject to minor changes.

Devolved AEB funding allocations is allocated to Mantra Learning Ltd, Standguide Ltd and System Group Ltd.

GMCA have run a competitive process and the five bidders listed above were the highest scoring bidders within the 1.5 million budget. Of the bids that were received and not funded there were significant reservations on one or more key elements of their proposals.

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 five contracts as part of the Skills Bootcamps programme to support 459 learners to train into construction/green roles during 2022/23.
Contracts will be awarded to the following suppliers:
• Salford City College: Low Carbon Heating Technician.
• The Growth Company: Green Technology Installation and Emerging Skills in EV Repair, Battery Assembly and Electrical Engineering.
• One Manchester: Construction Multi-Skills for Retrofit, Prison Based Green Construction Skills, Rail Engineering.
• Innovative Alliance Limited: Solar Construction.
• Northwest Skills Academy: Retrofit (with different pathways for unemployed, employed, and self-employed).
Delivery is expected to start no later than end of September 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.

While there are a large number of providers who offer Pension Administration Services, there are far fewer who have both the capability to support an organisation the size of GMP and also have the requisite knowledge and experience required in relation to Police pensions.

In awarding this contract it is necessary to take into account the McCloud ruling. Due to the complexities involved, it has been recommended that Forces stay with their current pension provider until the remedies are complete.

A direct award can be made to XPS Administration Ltd via the Mint Framework for Pensions Administration.

The Deputy Mayor approves the direct award of a 2-year contract for Pension Administration Services, to XPS Administration Ltd with the option to extend for a further 5 years. The likely value of 7 years’ spend would be circa £5m

• GMP is experiencing considerable growth in the Fleet driven by demand and officer number increase across districts and Spec Ops. This has increased and continues to put pressure on Fleet availability across the force.
• Nationally there remain issues with supply and demand of vehicles and as ever with police vehicles, even when purchased, there is a lead time on delivery and any conversion requirements.
• This strategy will give GMP the flexibility to buy from BLC when a suitable vehicle is available and also continue to utilise the CCS framework when appropriate.

Approval is given to the use of the CCS framework (RM6060 & RM6224) to procure the necessary vehicles on the 2023/2024 and 2024/2025 vehicle replacement Programmes when BLC vehicles and pricing are not available or suitable to meet operational needs and timescales.

Enabling TfGM to enter into contracts with bus operators to stabilise the bus network in October 2022 to avoid the withdrawal or reduction in frequency of numerous bus services across Greater Manchester following the end of the COVID related funding.

Without intervention the consequences of the service changes would be significantly detrimental in terms of accessibility to the network and accessibility for residents through the network to reach employment, education and key services such as health facilities. The degradation of the network would also hinder further recovery in revenue and patronage whilst undermining future opportunities for network growth and development as Greater Manchester transitions towards bus franchising.

Decisions required in order for TfGM to be able to enter into contracts with bus operators to stabilise the bus network in October 2022. The aggregate annualised cost for the decision is approximately £15 million.

Manchester Night-In campaigners (who organised a protest involving more than 1,000 people last October) highlighted to the Mayor that more needs to be done to support safety on a night out.

The Mayor committed to developing a night-time guide and campaign and this is featured in the refreshed police and crime plan (Standing Together).

Student focus groups and research told us that young people (and women and girls particularly but not exclusively) wanted to know what to do:-
• Before a night out (general advice)
• If something happened on a night out (lost a phone, lost friends, been spiked etc)
• How to report an issue on or after a night out

The guide and campaign addresses the above and brings all the resources and guidance into one place and promotes what is available (safe places, people, help points, reporting etc)

It provides reassurance to people that safety and welfare at night is taken seriously by key partners (police, council, GMCA, TFGM etc)

The audience is primarily 16-24 year old who are out enjoying the night-time (most vulnerable), women and girls primarily but not exclusively.
Some aspects (such as the posters and what to do before a night out) are generic and will be displayed and distributed across Greater Manchester.

The guide element is for the City Centre to start with but provides a template for other guides to be developed for other localities.

The guide and poster campaign will be launched in Student Welcome week which coincides with many new people coming to the city and going out for the first time.

A budget of £15,000 is allocated for the publication of a Good Night Out Guide and Poster Campaign that will be displayed across all metrolink stops and at key bus stops with the purpose of creating a safer night-time economy as well as a physical and on-line guide and social media campaign.

This will be allocated as follows:

Design of the guide, posters and products and associated printing £10,000
Advertising costs £5,000

Match funding has been secured from partners such as TfGM who have offered free advertising space to the value of £50,000.

Further in kind support has been provided from partners.

• Collyhurst and Moston Boxing Club (CMBC) have submitted a full proposal with costs that meet the needs of Manchester learners in preparation for the transition to high school period (Proposal attached below)
• The programmes cover priority areas as identified in the serious violence action plan and the VRU Education delivery objectives.
• The programme aims to enable young people to develop personal development skills and qualities which will better prepare them for the challenges faced with Key Stage 2-3 transition.
• The charity has confirmed a 50% contribution (£10k) of the £20k total project costs will be match funded.
• Impact will be monitored and evaluated via a number of methods e.g. student voice, staff voice, case studies and pastoral data e.g. attendance and behaviour.
• Termly reports will be shared with the GMVRU Education Delivery Group as part of the delivery agreement.

The Greater Manchester Violence Reduction Unit is to award £10,000 to support the Collyhurst and Moston Boxing Club to deliver the “Training with Champions” programme in partnership with six North Manchester schools over a 12-month period from September 2022 until September 2023

Innovating Minds delivered 26 licences in 3 GM boroughs in 21/22 with great success reported in the evaluation document. Schools continue to report an increase in anxiety and behaviour related incidences and require ongoing support from well trained early help professionals.

The VRU are looking to support schools to help their children through provision of safe, supportive environments that allows a sense of control over their distress while supporting children to build strength and resilience. A trauma informed approach is most effective through early identification and intervention

The Greater Manchester Violence Reduction Unit award Innovating Minds £16,000 to extend the delivery of the trauma informed ‘Healing Together’ programme to support children impacted by domestic abuse and emotional regulation to be delivered during the 2022/23 Academic year (between 01 September 2022 and 31 July 2023)

The GM VRU have previously awarded Innovating minds £20,520 to deliver the Healing Together Programme out of the 2021/22 Serious Violence funding. This will total the funding amount to £36,520

The reasons for the decision are:

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.

The GM VRU award Zoe Appleton Consultancy £34,999 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 £81,799

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

The decision is that:

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

EY3:

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

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

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

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

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

TFGM:

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The reasons for the decision are:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The reasons for the decision are:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Funding will be allocated as follows:

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

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

Total
£731,273.47
£760,000
£784,000

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

The reasons for the decision are:

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

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

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

The decision is that:

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

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

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

The funding will be allocated as outlined below.

Additional IDVA / ISVA posts (secured 2022)

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

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

Total £249,872 £369,918 £369,918
9FTE

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

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

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

The Victim Services Strategic Review is continuing to take place. The tender for the multi-crime Victim Service will be released shortly and a new service is expected to be in place by 1st December 2022. The further review of the tier 2 services underpinning this will commence in Autumn 2022, and it is intended that a proposal for future commissioning will be in place for 1st March 2023.

In this financial year the organisations had originally been funded from 1st April – 30th September 2022. These are all services funded from the MoJ victims grant – funding has been in place since 2017/18 when a review of services was undertaken and decisions around victims funding were made. All the services will be reviewed as part of the second stage of the victims’ services review and to maintain stability / sustainability within the support sector continuation of funding is required.

Therefore, it is recommended that the following services, currently grant funded by GMCA, are extended for a further 6 months (1st October 2022 – 31st March 2023) to align with this process.

The services included in the 6-month extension are:

• Manchester Action on Street Health (MASH) - £24,506
• Survivors Manchester - £40,976
• Trafford Rape Crisis - £11,250
• Greater Manchester Rape Crisis - £11,250
• Local Authority IDVA service provision - £210,000
• LGBT IDVA (LGBT Foundation) - £12,500
• Project Choice - £30,000
• Guardian Project - £24,500
• Community Safety Trust (CST) - £14,058
• Greater Manchester Domestic Abuse Helpline Service (Independent Choices) – £15,000
• LGBT Hate Crime Service (LGBT Foundation) - £14,790
• City Hearts – Trafficking Support Service - £10,000

Funding will also be provided to Just Psychology to finalise their cultural consultants programme of work. £30k of funding was provided through the victims’ budget in 2021/22 and it was agreed a further £14,350 would be provided in 2022/23 to enable the completion of this. This is one-off non-recurring payment for 2022/23.

• Just Psychology - £14,350

Total funding of £433,80 via the MOJ Victims Budget for 2022/23.

Total funding to be approved - £433,180.

Grant agreements for funding will be issued to all organisations funded through the MoJ Victims Core Grant.

The recommissioning of the GM Victims’ Service has commenced with a gate-way service expected to be in place by 1st December 2022. Extending support services underpinning this to align with this is crucial whilst this commissioning exercise is underway. It is essential to maintain stability across the sector and to continue to provide essential support to victims in GM.

The reasons for the decision are:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The reasons for the decision are:

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

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

The role and the focus of the work will include:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

The reasons for the decision are:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The reasons for the decision are:

The GM Contest Board is holding a GM Safeguarding against extremism awareness week from the 19th to the 23rd September 2022, with a conference being held on the final day of the week. Aimed at Senior Leads with a Prevent portfolio such as the Channel Chair, Children’s Services Lead, Adults Services Lead, Headteachers, Youth Justice, Neighbourhood Services leads etc.

The costs for the overarching conference are expected to be in the region of £10k which includes refreshments, venue hire and IT. Each local authority area has been requested to make a contribution and early indications are that the response is inconsistent, which risks the viability of the conference taking place. Any funding that Local authorities contribute will reduce the call from the £10k envelope.

The awareness week provides a high profile opportunity to share the learning from two GM Peer Review processes that taken place throughout 2021/22 in each district focussing on Prevent and Channel delivery structures and processes. As part of the peer review processes, a commitment was made to hold a GM level learning event proposes to share good practice and themes for development and will be an opportunity to highlight a range of upcoming issues that each GM district needs to consider as part of their local Prevent and Channel arrangements.

An envelope of £10k be made available to fund engagement activity associated with the GM Safeguarding Against Extremism Awareness Week. This includes costs associated with hosting a learning event as part of the wider Awareness week core offer.

Public health expertise has been crucial to the development of the GM Violence Reduction Unit and the programme has greatly benefited from this since its inception in 2019. Throughout this time, input has been through a succession of Public Health Registrar appointments as part of the national registrar training programme. However, between January 2021 and May 2021 there was no Public Health Registrar available which highlighted the potential risk of solely relying on registrar support. The current Registrar is due to stay in post until Aug-2022 when the VRU will be faced with another gap in support, with no plans in place for a replacement, a process over which the VRU has limited influence.

Therefore, to ensure a strong public health approach is adopted across Greater Manchester for Violence Prevention, it is critical to incorporate senior public health expertise and knowledge. The individual must be an expert in the field of Public Health, (registered in GMC/UKPHR/GDC), with particular specialist knowledge in Violence Prevention, so that the public health principles can be embedded into a system wide approach. They must also be a senior and system leader with extensive knowledge and expertise of public sector, in particular NHS and local government, so that cultures and organisational boundaries are understood, yet can be challenged.

Benefits to the VRU:
• Provide sufficient senior expertise to influence and negotiate with District Directors of Public Health and Strategic Health Leads across a range of organisations and settings
• Represent GM wide public health agenda in relation to Police, Fire and Crime to support integration within the developing locality boards and development of an Integrated Care System
• Advise Mayor and Deputy Mayor regarding opportunities and approaches to support reducing Youth Violence and Gender Based Violence
• Represent Public Health agenda at the GM Violence Reduction Governance Board and provide credible leadership and guidance at a senior level to support systemwide change and improvement
• Provide oversight of all relevant data and ways to strengthen and improve the VRU understanding of all factors relating to violence
• Oversee the production of the Violence Strategic Needs Assessment

A Public Health Consultant is appointed for 2.5 days per week, for the VRU at a cost of £87,000 per annum for a period of 2 years.

Total cost £174,000

Proposed amendments to the Articles of BlueLight Commercial were
received in April 2022 and following review, a number of questions were raised with BLC who arranged for an information workshop inviting all PCCs and their representatives.
Following this, the questions have since been answered and
the proposed amendments are now considered acceptable and can
therefore be recommended to the Deputy Mayor for approval.
1. Are you aware as to whether the Home Office will continue to fund BLC beyond April 2023 and if this is not the case, are PCCs are going to be asked to provide this funding?
BLC response - This will be discussed in the briefing sessions but there is nothing in the proposed Articles that could compel any PCC to contribute to the funding of BLC.
GMCA advice - The amendments are not related to future funding. BLC have been working with Home Office to identify future funding and a paper is due to be considered by the Treasury seeking 2 years specific funding. BLC has Home Office support and is a fundamental part of and written into the 3year CSR bid.
2. If it is the case that PCCs are going to be asked to provide funding beyond April 2023, this will have implications to your proposal to delete reserved matters and the deletion of Article 26.8.
BLC response - The funding issue is not relevant to the proposal to delete reserved matters as the cap on each members' liability is limited to £10 per member.
GMCA advice - The proposed amendment to Article 26.8 has been
withdrawn, therefore it remains that PCC Directors must constitute a
majority of the Directors present and eligible to vote upon proposals
concerning the company’s budget or finances or its strategy.
3. Could you provide clarity on the proposal for BLC to be able to enter into contracts directly as the current position is that the contracting powers sits directly with each PCC.
BLC response - This proposed amendment is intended to be clarificatory only as BLC are already doing this. The amendment formalises the position that BLC can act in the capacity of contracting authority or central purchasing body but the amendment does clearly state that this is only ‘where authorised to do so’ and in each case a Sub-Agreement would be used to ascertain the required authority ensuring that PCCs retain their autonomy. The PCCs will continue to have a direct contractual arrangement with the suppliers
through either a call-off contract or their official purchase order.
GMCA advice - An example of the use of a sub agreement is Fleet.

Following consideration by the Deputy Monitoring officer, the
proposed amendments are acceptable and can be recommended to
the Deputy Mayor for approval, the Deputy Mayor agrees to sign the
proposed Written Resolution to be passed by way of Special
Resolution.

On 25 March 2022 a report to the GMCA Greater Manchester Electric Vehicle Charging Tariff (greatermanchester-ca.gov.uk) set out the impact of electricity costs on the EV tariff in GM.

The Combined Authority agreed to delegate authority to the Chief Executive Officer, GMCA & TfGM, in consultation with the GM Deputy Mayor to determine an appropriate electric vehicle charging tariff and publish a decision notice, to will allow TfGM to be able to quickly respond to wholesale energy prices.

The EVCI tariffs introduced on 20th May 2022 (noted in table below) were set on the basis of electricity costs of 34 p/kWh.

Tariff from 20th May 2022

Pay-as-you-charge tariff
Fast Charger £0.49 per kWh
Rapid Charger £0.59 per kWh

Be.EV membership tariff
Fast Charger £0.46 per kWh
Rapid Charger £0.56 per kWh

Be.EV GM taxi membership tariff
Fast Charger n/a
Rapid Charger £0.49 per kWh

The electricity costs for Be.EV have now been fixed for 12 months at 54pkWh, and there is a need to review and revise the EV tariff to reflect the current energy costs. This will bring TfGM’s financial position on the operation of publicly owned EV chargers to a place where the revenue is meeting the operating costs.

The tariff is changing in response to the energy price rise, a passthrough of 25p/kWh (21p/kWh plus 20% VAT). Public charging attracts a 20% rate of VAT.

The Chief Executive Officer, GMCA & TfGM, in consultation with the Deputy Mayor has agreed to revise the electric vehicle charging tariffs, as set out below, from Tuesday 4th October 2022.

Pay-as-you-charge tariff
Fast Charger - £0.74 per kWh
Rapid Charger - £0.84 per kWh

Be.EV membership tariff
Fast Charger - £0.71 per kWh
Rapid Charger - £0.81 per kWh

Be.EV GM taxi membership tariff
Fast Charger - n/a
Rapid Charger - £0.74 per kWh

Tariffs are pence per kilowatt hour (kWh), inclusive of VAT and taxi membership tariff only applies to taxi dedicated charging points.