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As part of ongoing development and understanding of the nature of SOC and how to tackle it, staff will attend events such as the national SOCEX conference, Sex Worker Conference and Clear Hold Build Conference.
This will enable GMCA officers to stay up to date with best practice and policy.

Funding totalling up to £1,500 will be made available for GMCA staff to attend conferences and events relevant to Challenger and Serious Organised Crime, including any associated costs such as travel and accommodation.

#WeStandTogether has worked closely with GMCA and the Greater Manchester Hate Crime Partnership for the last decade. #WeStandTogether provides support and funding to local community organisations to promote cohesion and bring communities together.

As Affiliate members of #WeStandTogether, groups have the opportunity to demonstrate the positive impact of their project in return for a chance to receive additional funding through the Affiliate Award scheme.

The scheme aims to identify best practice within communities and provide additional funding to help sustain the work being undertaken to promote cohesion.

The funding would form a donation to #WeStandTogether who administer the Affiliate Award scheme. #WeStandTogether would also be match funding this amount to bolster the scheme.

Funding of £4,500 to be provided to #WeStandTogether in support of their Affiliate Awards scheme to continue cohesion projects across Greater Manchester.

The Custody Allocation Unit Review will be the starting point to the multi-Agency 3D Improving Police Custody Partnership programme. Stakeholders and partners will review the current operation and consider options for re-design.

The multi-Agency 3D Police Custody Partnership will place be in for 2 years to improve:
• Diversion – brief interventions, referrals and assessment, community support, linked to healthcare in custody.
• Dignity –engage with lived experience to recommend improvements and consider the impact of neurodiversity and people with mental health issues and /or complex needs.
• Diversity –co-design with the GM Equality Alliance to understand the needs of communities of identity and potential action to mitigate disproportionality.

The above will be considered through a pragmatic approach focussing on specified custody suites to start, with as follows:
• Child focus: to be developed at Stockport (Cheadle Health Custody Suite) linked to GMP’s Child Centred Policing Approach.
• All Age Offer: Starting with Adult provision at North Com Custody Suite
• Potential re-design / development at Longsight Custody Suite

A High-level Operation Improvement proposal was built on consensus approach of how we:
• Place communication and engagement as pivotal- everything flows from this – hearts and minds, culture.
• Reduce the risk of offending/reoffending via effective intelligence sharing, increasing diversionary opportunities and offender management.
• Protect and safeguard those at risk.
• Ensure the Criminal Justice System is a safe place for people– first do no harm.
• Value and support our workforce and upskill them.
• Drive for quality /effectiveness – that it is a primary driver above efficiency and process and is truly a person-centric approach.
• Deliver a trauma-in-practice approach to people with complex needs – no one left behind.
• Engender a collaborative problem-solving approach with partners.

Refreshments and lunch be provided at the Custody Allocation Unit Review event taking place at GMP HQ on 3rd May 2024, 10am – 3.30pm with stakeholder’s and partners.

GMP HQ Catering
Menu option B @ £5.80 x 35
Tea/Coffee @ £1.65 x 35

Improved, meaningful and consistent engagement between children and young people and the police is one of the key outcomes of the GMP Child Centred Policing strategy and the GM Youth Justice Transformation Delivery Board. To help achieve this, we are setting up a workshop event in Oldham, inviting youth service representatives and GMP colleagues from across GM on June 14th, 2024.

There are a number of ways and locations in which the police interact with children, such as in schools, in police stations and other formal and informal events and settings. And while there are some good examples of children and young people attending GMP IAGs (Independent Advisory groups) across GM, the picture is not consistent, nor are the models always child centred.

That is why we have set up this workshop with the aim of bringing together GM partners from youth service agencies and GMP to share best practice in developing truly child centred police scrutiny panels across the GM.

The four key principles of the Young Person Scrutiny Panel are:
1. Young person led
2. Facilitated by youth service agencies.
3. GMP involvement and investment.
4. Follows the Lundy Model of Participation.

The aim of the event is to devise a clear Terms of Reference; scope and principles, to develop a clear, coordinated, and consistent picture across GM. The workshop will be an opportunity for GM partners to share their own group experiences, resources and knowledge, to help other GM areas develop their own.

Several GM partners have been invited to present, including Oldham Youth Service, (as well as Salford and Manchester Youth Zone) who along with Oldham District Police have established a Youth Independent Scrutiny Panel: a forum that is very much young person led; facilitated by youth service colleagues, with significant investment from Oldham District Police.

The event will be from about 10am to 3pm for approx. 60-70 people.
Lunch and refreshments are approx. £7 - £8 per head.

A funding envelope of £500 be agreed to cover catering and refreshment costs for the above event

The Gender Based Violence Lived Experience Panel are critical to ensuring that the voice of victims and survivors are at the heart of our delivery of the Greater Manchester Gender Based Violence Strategy.

The Panel are in the process of agreeing their ways of working and their shared priorities for the year ahead linked to the Gender Based Violence Strategy. To achieve this, two face to face development sessions have been agreed. Skilled and sensitive facilitation is needed to support the panel to achieve their aims at these sessions. Together Brilliant Things and De Butterfly CIC have a strong track record in delivering inclusive, therapeutic and trauma informed facilitation. In addition to planning, designing and delivering the sessions the facilitators, working with the panel, will deliver:

• A Statement of Intent which will set out the panel’s agreed ways of working together to help refine their purpose and strengthen relationships
• The panel’s agreed priorities for the year ahead
• The panel’s preferred methods of decision making and communication

Two payments, totalling £5000 will be made to a Brilliant Thing CIC and De Butterfly CIC, as follows, to deliver the two sessions:
• April 2024: £2,340
• June, 2024: £2,660

We are seeking to award £2,500 each to a Brilliant Thing CIC and De Butterfly CIC (totalling £5000) to support the planning and facilitation for the Gender Based Violence Lived Experience Panel’s development sessions in 2024. The funding is intended as contracts between GMCA and a Brilliant Thing CIC and De Butterfly CIC.

GMCA have run a competitive process in which 8 bids were received in total.

Each bid was sent to a full evaluation panel. Individual evaluations were undertaken on each organisations Financial and Economic Standing, Information Governance and Safeguarding policies and procedures. Each of these was undertaken by a specialist from the relevant GMCA department and conducted in line with the processes published within the procurement documentation.

Bidders were also required to meet minimum requirements for Ofsted or, where no recent Ofsted inspect was available, produce a good internal Self-Assessment Report.

The Mini-Competition comprised of 2 parts, the first being Quality questions which accounted for 85% of the total score. The Quality selection process involved evaluating the bidders’ responses on a number of criteria including:

- Evidence of Need (5%)
- Programme, Content, Design & Delivery (20%)
- Employer Engagement (20%)
- Learner Engagement (15%)
- Track Record (5%)
- Quality & Performance Management (10%)
- Financial Value for Money (10%)

Social Value was weighted as 15% of the overall score (7.5% Qualitative and 7.5% Quantitative) and was evaluated via the Social Value Portal.

Following a rigorous evaluation process, the bidders were ranked based on their total score. Any bidders who failed any of the key due diligence evaluations, as described above, were excluded from the process.

Contracts will be awarded to the bidders listed.

Following a competitive procurement process using GMCA’s Education Work and Skills Flexible Procurement System, GMCA wishes to award four contracts with a value of £375,000 each (£1,500,000 in total) to the following providers:
- Bright Direction Training Limited
- Realise Learning and Employment Limited
- Woodspeen Training
- Reform Radio CIC
The primary aim of Skills Bootcamps in the region is to ensure that residents are supported to fulfil their potential by entering into or progressing within those good quality job roles most needed in our local labour market, supporting a thriving productive economy. Funding is available to deliver short courses of up to 16 weeks co-designed with employers for residents aged 19+ with alignment to other GM wide activities for Education, Skills and Work and wider policy areas such as digital and green.
Skills Bootcamps are funded by the Department for Education (DfE) as part of the National Skills Fund, which aims to help business find and hire the workers they need as well as supporting adults to flourish and fulfil their potential through high quality training. In 24/25, GMCA will receive £7m of grant funding from DfE to support c2100 residents to undertake Skills Bootcamps in key sectors with a focus on addressing local priorities.
Between June and November 2023, GMCA commissioned 12 lead providers, partnering with employers to deliver Bootcamps in key growth and high employment sectors to residents aged 19+ in the region. These 2-year Skills Bootcamps projects are delivering across a range of sectors including; Digital & Tech, Construction & Green Skills, Manufacturing & Engineering, Hospitality, Events & Security, Education, and Social Care and the majority of this delivery will continue into 2024/25. Using the remaining funding, GMCA is now looking to procure lead organisations partnering with employers to deliver Skills Bootcamps targeting specific skills gaps across sectors to residents aged 19+ in the region.
GMCA requires that:
• Providers are highly engaged with employers from start to finish and work with them to co-design programmes ensuring every participant has a guaranteed interview.
• Residents progress into a positive outcome such as: a new job, upskilling within their current employer/role and increasing work in the case of the self-employed.
• Providers support unemployed residents, the low-skilled workforce and residents requiring higher level skills (Level 3+) for progression.

The Greater Manchester Harm Reduction Partnership (St Mary’s SARC, We Are Survivors and Greater Manchester Rape Crisis) have developed a joint approach to reducing trauma and harm for victims, their family and friends -who have been subject to delayed, vacated and adjourned trials because of the Crown Court Backlog.

This approach sees GM organisations work together as a trauma-informed system, in the best interests of victims and survivors. It is based on inter-operability and a shared understanding of the importance sustaining capability and capacity across the workforce.

Using a Trauma Informed Harm Reduction Approach to:
• Strengthen Workforce Capability & Capacity
• Expand Victim-led Resilience Responses
• Enable Family and Friends Support Networks
• Deliver System Interoperability
• Advocate for change with a collective voice.
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To develop a GM System will take time and commitment from all partners.
The ambition is to create a sustainable workforce and develop skills and expertise.

Matching pay grades across the health service and voluntary sector will be challenging, but it is achievable over time, with a structured approach.
The aim is to develop a different cohort of staff to ISVAs but at a similar grade to:
• Allow ISVAs to concentrate on their main role.
• Create career pathways to mitigate staff attrition.
• Develop a system-wide sustainable model of interventions.
• Increase support to families and peer networks.

An evaluation will be undertaken over the course of the two years. Project leads will allow the development of a triage system for referrals between services based on

Capacity
• Caseloads.
• Family networks fatigued.
• Vacated cases.
Capability
• Focus on CJS navigation – not the person.
• High levels of mental unwellness and crises.
• Attrition – feeling unsafe.

Therefore, impacts will be measured on waiting lists and caseloads, feelings of safety and levels of trauma.

£600,000 (£300,000 per annum) be committed (2024 -2026) to the Greater Manchester Harm Reduction Partnership to deliver the GM RAOSSO Nightingale Programme to increase support service reliance to deliver additional support to victims who are subject to trial delays. This is a shared contribution between the GMCA and Health.

The proposal was agreed at the Justice and Rehabilitation Executive on 18th March 2024.

The Victim Service Coordinators and Lead role were introduced in Sept 2017, as a pivotal element of the victims of crime assessment and referral Model. They are employed by GMP and fully funded by GMCA. The team are led by the GMP Victim Services Strategic Lead and are responsible for the leadership and oversight of the victim services work at a divisional level, to improve partnership working and align services more effectively to improve pathways for victims.

Following the ongoing review of victim services across Greater Manchester, a number of key successes and key challenges / opportunities for the Victims Service Coordinators have been identified. This is currently being used to scope options for a redesign of the service, which can be worked into a practical delivery model.

It was agreed at the Justice Rehabilitation Executive Board on 18.03.24 to extend the GMP Victim Service Coordinators existing roles for 12 months subject to a review plan being submitted to the Deputy Mayor and ACC McFarlane. This is subject to an initial plan in April 2024 and completion and implementation the review in financial year 2024/25.

To extend the funding of the GMP Victim Services Transformation Lead role and 11 Victim Services Coordinators posts, for a further 12 months from 1st April 2024 – 31st March 2025

Total funding to be approved is for the Victim Services Transformation Lead role and the 11 Victim Services Coordinators is £582,000. The cost of extending the Victim Services Coordinators and Lead role from 1st April 2024 – 31st March 2025

• Victim Services Coordinators x 11 = £520,000
• Victim Services Lead - £ 62,000

TOTAL: £582,00 (12 months)

The extension of the posts will be funded via the annual MOJ Victims Budget allocation for 24/25.

The contract is for the provision of IT Internal Audit Services. This is part of a wider IT Audit contract that is in place for GMCA and TfGM which has been awarded through a competitive tender process using GMCA procurement processes. The service compliments the in-house GMP/PCC Internal Audit provision and is vital to ensure that audits of key risks pertaining to technology/cyber risk are undertaken by suitably qualified and experienced internal audit professionals.

MIAA provide IT audit services to TfGM, and GMCA through a recently commissioned single contract.

The sum of £21750 per annum is for the provision of IT Audit Services associated with the statutory requirements of the PCC.

The charge is based on 50 days work @ £435 / day (per annum) and will be for a period of 3 years with the option to extend for a further 12 months.

Total Value: £65,250

A payment to be made of £200.00 to cater for(provision of basic buffet option for 25 people) a visit by Scotland VRU colleagues, who will join a wider GM VRU partnership meeting in person on Wednesday 3rd April 2024. Scotland VRU will be out visiting VRU Community Led Programmes later in the afternoon and will visit a VRU Community Sport Programme the evening prior.

The Greater Manchester Violence Reduction Unit are seeking to make a payment of £200.00 to Partyline Catering to cater a joint VRU-Scotland VRU in person partnership meeting in April 2024.

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