Decisions

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

I made the decision to introduce the Greater Manchester Franchising Scheme for Buses on 25th March 2021 (the Scheme).

The Scheme itself was made on 30th March. In accordance with section 123H (3) of the Transport Act 2000 (the Act) and regulation 3 of the Public Service Vehicles (Registration of Local Services) (Franchising Schemes Transitional Provisions and Amendments) (England) Regulations 2018 (the regulation), it specified:
a) the areas within the area to which the scheme relates ("scheme sub-areas"),
b) for each scheme sub-area, the date on which a local service contract to provide a local service in that scheme sub-area may first be entered into,
c) for each scheme sub-area, the minimum period that is to expire between the making of a local service contract to provide such a service and the provision of such a service under the contract (in that regard, a scheme may not specify a period of less than six months), and
d) for each scheme sub-area, the date on which a local service may first be provided under a local service contract in it.

For Sub-Area A the date specified in the Scheme under b) above was 30 April 2022; the time period specified under c) above was 9 months; and the date on which a local service may first be provided under a local service contract under d) above in Sub-Area A was 29th January 2023. This date was likely to constitute in effect the effective time for the purpose of s123J (7) of the Act for that sub-area on which the change in regime effected by s123J (1),(3) and (4) of the Act takes place.

The procurement process for the implementation of the Scheme in Sub-Area A has been delayed as a result of two claims for judicial review of the decision to make the Scheme. Whilst those claims were dismissed by the High Court on March 9th, 2022 there is an outstanding application to the Court of Appeal by one of the Claimants for permission to appeal against that decision.

A consultation exercise has been undertaken (in accordance with section 1231 (2) of the Act) in relation to a proposed postponement of the date on which a local service contract may first be entered into in Sub-Area A given the delay referred to above.

In light of the above delay, and having considered the responses to the consultation, I am satisfied that it is appropriate that the date on which a local service contract may first be entered into in Sub-Area A should now be postponed until 16th December 2022. I am satisfied that this is the earliest practicable date and there is a public interest in implementing the decision as soon as possible.

The postponement of the date on which a contract may first be let under section 123l of the Act gives rise to an obligation under the regulation to update the date on which a service may first be provided under such a contract in the Scheme. Accordingly, the date on which a local service may first be provided under a local service contract in Sub-Area A will be updated to specify 17th September 2023 in place of 29th January 2023.

These changes will give those who may be affected by the implementation of the Scheme in respect of sub-area A greater certainty about the time on which it is likely to come into effect.

i. The date on which a local service contract may first be entered into in Sub-Area A specified in the Greater Manchester Franchising Scheme for Buses 2021 be postponed until 16th December 2022.

ii. The date on which a local service may first be provided under a local service contract in Sub-Area A specified in the Greater Manchester Franchising Scheme for Buses 2021 is to be 17th September 2023.

iii. The Greater Manchester Franchising Scheme for Buses 2021 is to be updated accordingly in the form annexed hereto.

The decision was published on the Register of Key Decisions on 13 April 2022 but on Friday 6 May will not have been on the register for 28 days.

The 25th March GMCA report Greater Manchester Electric Vehicle Charging Tariff Part A Report Template (greatermanchester-ca.gov.uk) set out the delegation to allow TfGM to be able to quickly respond to wholesale energy prices and to determine an appropriate electric vehicle charging tariff. A report is being prepared for a decision in early May.
The current EVCI tariffs were set on the basis of electricity costs of 14 p/kWh. Since January 2021, the wholesale cost of electricity has risen dramatically. As set out in the EV Tariff Report on 25 March 2022 there is a need to review and revise the EV tariff once the EV electricity costs are fixed.

A report is being prepared for a decision in early May. The current financial impact of these increases in electricity cost, without a corresponding increase in tariff, has resulted in TfGM incurring net costs of c£8,000 per month, compared to a surplus of c£9,000 per month when the cost was 14 p/kWh.

Without a general exemption the decision cannot be made until Thursday 26 May

Revision of electric vehicle charging tariffs