Decisions

The Home Office require all Safer Street Fund bids and financials matters to be processed through the Deputy Mayors office.

The three Greater Manchester Home Office Safer Streets Fund Round 5 have a total combined budget of £847,969

2023/24 = £463,181
2024/25 = £384,788

A grant agreement is in place between the GMCA and the Home Office for the 2023/24 funding and we are awaiting the signed 2024/25 grant agreement to be provided.

The GMCA led programme has three primary interventions that will target the following crimes:

- Neighbourhood crimes of Robbery, Theft from a Person, Vehicle Crime,
- Anti-social Behaviour including drunk and disorderly behaviour, public transport vandalism, drug and substance misuse, intimidating behaviour
- Violence Against Women and Girls including sexual assault, indecent assault, street harassment, drink spiking

The proposed interventions are
- Delivery of Op Safer Streets by Greater Manchester Police in Manchester City Centre.
- TfGM Drone to support operations to reduce ASB and VAWG incidents on the nighttime transport network.
- TfGM and Foundation 92 led hub to be deployed across the Transport network to address incidents of ASB.

The deployment of a drone will act as both as a deterrent to ASB but also provide safety and monitoring enhancing capabilities when required by TfGM control room operators. Drones offer a versatile and efficient means of monitoring, inspecting and responding to various safety issues on the transport network.

Oversight of the programme is provided by Oliver Collins in the Police, Crime, Criminal Justice and Fire Team at the GMCA.

The Deputy Mayor receives the Home Office Safer Streets Fund for the programme being led and delivered by the GMCA across 2023/24 and 2024/25 financial years.

The total budget for this programme is £175,000
2023/24 = £175,000
2024/25 = £0

Transport for Greater Manchester are to be provided with £25,000 of this funding for the procurement of a drone and associated training to TfGM to deploy the drone.

The reasons for the decision are:

From working with St Marys SARC, our provider of therapeutic support services of rape and other sexual offences for children and young people, a number of agreed challenges have been identified in this sector that require fully scoping in order to identify ways forward. This includes a lack of capacity to regularly monitor waiting lists, to review suitability, assess risk, and refer victims to more appropriate services where necessary. There is also a gap in terms of GM wide local protocols between SARC and Children’s Services/CAMHS.

There is recognition that there is significant complexity and high levels of need of the children and families that utilise the St Marys SARC service, with many unknowns about the collective profile of children and parents and the appropriateness of current pathways. GMCA Police and Crime Team have engaged with external consultants and particularly the NHS Integrated Care to scope out an independent review of SARC CYP case management.

This proposed review will deliver the following outcomes:
• Recognition of the importance and responsibilities of the range of partner agencies (health, education and social care) towards these children and their families;
• A clear articulation of the extent of the need of children (and parents) on the waiting list including how they profile in the range of children’s and adult services.
• A clear plan to safely reduce the child waiting list for CYP SARC counselling services;
• Options appraisal for the prompt delivery of services to children on the waiting list and the capacity within SARC to deliver this;
• Adequate escalation process for all agencies

This joint independent review will be conducted with a collaborative “critical friend” approach that draws on the expertise of the service to co-create a reflective learning process. This will include:
• Review of CAHMS eligibility in each area
• Identification of potential barriers from triage to onward referral
• Review of multi-agency safeguarding responsibilities
• Deep dive case review
• Review current case management systems and mechanisms to analyse patient demographics and trend data
• Consideration of the needs of parents including addressing their possible traumatisation and potential re-traumatisation in the context of their own history;
• Consideration of the role of SARC and other services in helping to educate parents on how to keep their children safe from further harm;

The review will be undertaken by Dr Alex Chard, Director YCTCS Ltd. He is a systemic organisational consultant, independent academic and professional author. He has a Professional Doctorate in Systemic Practice and is a member of the Society of Authors and the Institute of Directors. is recognised as a national expert in this field and has extensive experience including undertaking reviews into 2 London boroughs and reporting to a Home Office Minister.

£60k be committed from NHSE GM Health & Justice Budget to fund an Independent review of case management of SARC Children Young Persons therapeutic support for rape and other sexual offences. This is to be conducted by Dr Alex Chard, Director YCTCS Ltd.

This decision reflects our commitment to the ongoing support of the training, learning, development, support, and networking of the ICV volunteers.

GMCA Police, Crime, Criminal Justice and Fire Team to host the annual Northwest and North Wales ICV Regional Conference – Saturday 21st September 24. The venue (as previous years) will be Haydock Racecourse, including refreshments, 4 speakers, PA System and handheld microphones.

Due to GMCA having the responsibility for hosting the payment of £6,327.60 will be met by the PCC team and then recharged to the 6 regions – Cheshire, Merseyside, Lancashire, Cumbria, North Wales who will then subsequently be invoiced at a cost of £1054.60 each.

The Home Office require all Safer Street Fund bids and financials matters to be processed through the Deputy Mayors office.


The three Greater Manchester Home Office Safer Streets Fund Round 5 have a total combined budget of £847,969.

2023/24 = £463,181
2024/25 = £384,788

A grant agreement is in place between the GMCA and the Home Office for the 2023/24 funding and we are awaiting the signed 2024/25 grant agreement to be provided.

The GMCA led programme has three primary interventions that will target the following crimes:

- Neighbourhood crimes of Robbery, Theft from a Person, Vehicle Crime,
- Anti-social Behaviour including drunk and disorderly behaviour, public transport vandalism, drug and substance misuse, intimidating behaviour
- Violence Against Women and Girls including sexual assault, indecent assault, street harassment, drink spiking

The proposed interventions are:
- Delivery of Op Safer Streets by Greater Manchester Police in Manchester City Centre.
- TfGM Drone to support operations to reduce ASB and VAWG incidents on the nighttime transport network.
- TfGM and Foundation 92 led hub to be deployed across the Transport network to address incidents of ASB.

Oversight of the programme is provided by Oliver Collins in the Police, Crime, Criminal Justice and Fire Team at the GMCA

The Deputy Mayor receives the Home Office Safer Streets Fund for the programme being led and delivered by the GMCA across 2023/24 and 2024/25 financial years.

The total budget for this programme is £175,000
2023/24 = £175,000
2024/25 = £0

Transport for Greater Manchester are to be provided with £12,000 of this funding for the provision of a hub to support Foundation 92 mentoring service to be provided at ASB hotspots within the City Centre and across the wider GM BeeNetwork.

The Home Office require all Safer Street Fund bids and financial matters to be processed through the Deputy Mayor’s office.

The three Greater Manchester Home Office Safer Streets Fund Round 5 have a total combined budget of £847,969.

2023/24 = £463,181
2024/25 = £384,788

A grant agreement is in place between the GMCA and the Home Office for the 2023/24 funding and we are awaiting the signed 2024/25 grant agreement to be provided.

The GMCA led programme has three primary interventions that will target the following crimes:

- Neighbourhood crimes of Robbery, Theft from a Person, Vehicle Crime,
- Anti-social Behaviour including drunk and disorderly behaviour, public transport vandalism, drug and substance misuse, intimidating behaviour,
- Violence Against Women and Girls including sexual assault, indecent assault, street harassment, drink spiking.

The proposed interventions are:
- Delivery of Op Safer Streets by Greater Manchester Police in Manchester City Centre.
- TfGM Drone to support operations to reduce ASB and VAWG incidents on the nighttime transport network.
- TfGM and Foundation 92 led hub to be deployed across the Transport network to address incidents of ASB.

Oversight of the programme is provided by the Police, Crime, Criminal Justice and Fire Team at the GMCA.

The Deputy Mayor receives the Home Office Safer Streets Fund for the programme being led and delivered by the GMCA across 2023/24 and 2024/25 financial years.

The total budget for this programme is £175,000
2023/24 = £175,000
2024/25 = £0

Greater Manchester Police are to be provided with £138,000 of this funding for the provision of Op Safer Streets.

The GMCA works closely with the five OPCCs in the Northwest region (Merseyside, Lancashire, Cheshire, Cumbria and North Wales) and have jointly agreed to establish the post of Regional OPCC Programme and Policy Manager in order to co-ordinate and lead on collaborative work in the region.

The Deputy Mayor agrees to pay Merseyside OPCC the sum of up to £22,000 for costs associated with the post of Regional OPCC Programme & Policy Manager, which are divided equally between the 5 OPCCs and GMCA.

4th September 2023 – March 2025 estimated to be in the region of £22,000.

Following competition Compass Minerals Storage & Archives Ltd t/a DeepStore emerged as the preferred supplier.

The Deputy Mayor approves the award of a 5 year contract for The Provision Of: Off Site Records Management and Associated Services to Compass Minerals Storage & Archives Ltd t/a DeepStore, with the option to extend for a further 2 years. The likely value of 7 years spend would be circa £700K.

The renovation of the Longsight Police Station custody suite will provide GMP with a modernised facility to enable the appropriate management of detainees, ensuring GMP has capacity to safely manage current and projected future demand. The upgrades to the suite will provide an enhanced working environment for staff, promote detainee wellbeing, and provide an upgraded facility close to an area of high demand and to Manchester and Salford Court facilities- maximising efficiency for Police Officers and staff.

To go to tender:

Police custody suites are complex and highly specialised facilities, with a limited number of construction companies nationwide having relevant experience of delivering similar projects.

Due to the technical requirements and complexity of custody suites, the earlier a construction partner can be appointed and start to develop the scheme alongside the designers, GMP and other stakeholders, the more benefit and value can be added to the project, including de-risking the construction which will minimise the possibility of delay or cost overrun.

The North West Construction Hub (NWCH) Framework offers a fully compliant access route to providers with a proven track record and experience in delivering projects similar to the Longsight Custody Suite renovation.

Therefore the recommended decision is that approval is given to tender and subsequently award the contract for the provision of a specialised construction partner to undertake the Longsight Custody Suite upgrade using The North West Construction Hub (NWCH) Framework.

The Deputy Mayor approves the proposals and associated costs for upgrades to the Longsight Police Station- Custody Suite.

The decision requires;

1. The commitment of £7.5m capital based on the current estimated spending profile of an In-Year (FY 23/24) spending of £309k, and FY 24/25 spending of £7.5m. (financial table is presented below).
2. The appointment of an external contractor through a compliant framework to deliver the detailed design and construction.

Operation Helix relates to the ongoing investigation into the death of a young male a that occurred in June 2014 following assault.

As the 10-year memorial nears, it is anticipated that an appeal for information, supported by a reward of £50,000, will encourage the public to share intelligence leading to the arrest and conviction of the perpetrator(s) of this crime.

It is felt that £50,000 will act as a strong incentive for someone to come forward with a name of the person responsible.

£50,000 be made available as a reward for information leading to the successful conviction of suspects in respect of GMPs Operation Helix.

It has been recommended by the GMCA Digital team, that platform Wistia will provide the most suitable solution for hosting the 14 criminal justice system timeline videos on the GM Victims website. Wistia will ensure that we are able to offer a more versatile service with additional functionality offering more value for money, such as from the following:
• Wistia can create automated captions on videos which can then be edited for an accurate transcript for the user to read, being more compliant with accessibility requirements.
• Wistia will allow us as users to create folders of videos that can be used for the Support Timeline and any future timelines for the site.
• Wistia will also give in-depth analytics on how people engage with the videos. It also allows the creation of a custom video player to match the GM Victims branding.
• Wistia adds functionality such as a video editor where it is possible to edit and update the video & transcript in the future to keep up with ever evolving information.

£1000 funding envelope be agreed to fund a set of licences and power licenses to utilise video hosting platform Wistia for the GM Victims website and criminal justice system video timeline tool.
£180 annually for Wistia (X 3 years for GM Victims service contract)
=£540.

3 X Power licences, the estimated cost will be for 3 x UBDS users for the months they are working on the gateway project e.g. July go-live, (3 x £16.40) x 5 months
= £246. (price may vary if there are project delays)

The Ministry of Justice have national ring-fenced funding to increase the number of IDVA/ISVAs to over 1000 by 2024/25. They have confirmed they are in a position to allocate the final 100 posts (additional 50 in 2023/24 and a further 50 allocated for 2024/25).

MoJ took a revised approach to this allocation, given the limited number of posts available nationally. Due to difficulties in running a needs assessment process, including timing and resources, they have not run a competitive process. Additional posts were allocated following an assessment of current ISVA/IDVA allocations alongside population – based on this Greater Manchester were offered:

- 3.5 posts in 2023/24
- 3.5 posts in 2024/25

We used priorities within the Gender Based Violence Strategy, previous work on gaps and needs across Greater Manchester, particularly in by-and-for groups and within specialist provision to allocate the posts to organisations. Organisations submitted full costings for the posts.

The 23/24 posts have funding confirmed as is the funding for retaining these posts in 2024/25.

The following IDVA/ISVA posts are funded via the MoJ ringfenced IDVA/ISVA allocation for Greater Manchester in 2023/24 and 2024/25.

Funding for 3.5 posts are confirmed for financial year 2023/24 – funding for retention of the posts for 2024/25 is also confirmed.

3.5 FTE £40,404 (2023/24) £161,612 (2024/25), £202,016 (Total)

The Home Office require all Safer Street Fund bids and financials matters to be processed through the Deputy Mayor’s office.

The Bolton programme has seven key interventions that will target the following crimes in Bolton Town Centre:

Sexual offences, sexual assaults, improving feelings of safety from VAWG, public order offences, aggressive and abusive behaviour, violent crime, carrying weapons, robbery of personal property and theft.

The proposed interventions are
- Policing Intervention
- Street Based Youth Outreach Team
- Community Engagement and Reassurance
- Travel Ambassadors
- Night Time Welfare
- Training, Marketing and crime prevention strategy
- Enhanced Target hardening

Oversight of the programme is managed by an officer within the Community Safety Service at Bolton Council and the Police, Crime, Criminal Justice and Fire Team at the GMCA.

The Deputy Mayor receives the Home Office Safer Streets Fund for the programme being led and delivered by Bolton Council across 2023/24 and 2024/25 financial years.

The total budget for this programme is £304,390
2023/24 = £129,802
2024/25 = £174,588

The three Greater Manchester Home Office Safer Streets Fund Round 5 hve a total combined budget of £847,969

2023/24 = £463,181
2024/25 = £384,788

A grant agreement is in place between the GMCA and the Home Office for the 2023/24 funding and we are awaiting the 2024/25 grant agreement to be provided.

The Home Office require all Safer Street Fund bids and financials matters to be processed through the Deputy Mayor’s office.

The Bolton programme has seven key interventions that will target the following crimes in Bury:

- ASB: Street drinking and drunkenness, harrassment, aggressive behaviour, rowdiness and verbal abuse specifically around the central retail district.

- VAWG: Harrassment, Sexual Assault, Violence with and without Injury

- Neighbourhood crime: Personal robbery, theft from person

The proposed interventions are
- Safer Streets Ambassadors
- Enhanced CCTV Capacity and Connectivity
- Proactive Outreach
- Environmental Improvements
- VAWG training and behaviour change awareness

Oversight of the programme is managed by an officer within the Community Safety Service at Bury Council and the Police, Crime, Criminal Justice and Fire Team at the GMCA.

The Deputy Mayor receives the Home Office Safer Streets Fund for the programme being led and delivered by Bury Council across 2023/24 and 2024/25 financial years.

The total budget for this programme is £368,579
2023/24 = £158,379
2024/25 = £210,200

The three Greater Manchester Home Office Safer Streets Fund Round 5 hve a total combined budget of £847,969

2023/24 = £463,181
2024/25 = £384,788

A grant agreement is in place between the GMCA and the Home Office for the 2023/24 funding and we are awaiting the 2024/25 grant agreement to be provided.

Greater Manchester has one of the best nightlife scenes in the UK, and the Deputy Mayor is determined to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to enjoy it in a safe way.

This service focuses on providing support to vulnerable individuals in and around the Gay Village area of Manchester on a Friday and Saturday evening and will work in partnership with licensed premises and emergency services to provide a non-emergency service support to those that are most vulnerable, and therefore at greatest risk of becoming the victim of a crime.

The Deputy Mayor commissions the LGBT Foundation to provide a Nighttime Economy Welfare Scheme to operate in Manchester’s Gay Village.

The grant agreement is for the period 1st January 2024 to 31st March 2024

The value of the grant agreement is £35,020.

A strategic priority of the Home Office is to end all forms of violence against women and girls (VAWG) as set out in both the Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy and the Tackling Domestic Abuse Plan. The Interpersonal Abuse Unit’s aim is to protect and support vulnerable victims of interpersonal violence, including children affected by domestic abuse.

In 2020/21 the Home Office issued the first iteration ‘Domestic Abuse
Perpetrator Programme Fund’ totalling over £7m, which aimed to increase the availability of domestic abuse perpetrator interventions, including rolling out the Drive project. The second £11m fund, which launched in 2021/22, placed specific focus on children and adolescents displaying (potentially) problematic behaviour towards their parents/carers, as well as interventions specifically for perpetrators of stalking. To build on our work to date, we state our ambition in the Tackling Domestic Abuse Plan to invest in, and evaluate, perpetrator interventions as these are critical to reducing the risk posed by the perpetrator and understanding how to prevent these individuals reoffending in future.

The Grant from the Home Office is paid to the GMCA in exercise of the power conferred upon the Secretary of State for the Home Department under Section 169of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 to provide financial support to assist victims, witnesses or other persons affected by offences.

The grant has been awarded due to the above framework being successful in a bidding process, and they are satisfied that this is a broad well-defined framework describing the outcomes and impacts that the Funding is intended to achieve whilst allowing GMCA to exercise independent discretion in delivering the inputs and outputs detailed in its Delivery Proposal.

GMCA have been successful Home Office grant funding, to support the continuation of perpetrator-focused domestic abuse interventions.

The Home Office published an invitation to PCCs in to apply for funding to improve outcomes for perpetrators of domestic abuse with the aim of reducing reoffending and protecting victims and survivors of domestic abuse of perpetrator-focused domestic abuse programmes.

Funding will be provided to PCCs as the lead partner, but the expectation is that PCCs will deliver the intervention in collaboration with a partner organisation.

Part 1 of the funding; the Home Office have agreed that Local Authorities within GM would be the partner organisation to deliver Adult focused domestic abuse perpetrator interventions.

The Deputy Mayor agrees to award each Greater Manchester
LA the below funding to support the development and rollout of a DA perpetrator Interventions; The funding will be used from the Home Office Fund.

2023/24

DA Perp intervention City Manchester £60,290
DA Perp Intervention Bolton £33,645
DA Perpetrator Intervention Stockport £33,645
DA Perpetrator Intervention Wigan £33,645
DA Perpetrator Intervention Bury £33,645
DA Perpetrator Intervention Salford £33,645
DA Perpetrator Intervention Rochdale £33,645
DA Perpetrator Intervention Trafford £33,645
DA Perpetrator Intervention Oldham £33,645

2023/24 Total funding amount to be devolved to CSPs: £329,450

The funding will be granted on the condition that the individual CSP plans are aligned to the wider strategic priorities of their organisation and partners.

Part 2 of the funding is to roll out Project Cara across GM,

Project CARA is an early ‘awareness raising diversionary’ intervention targeting domestic abuse offenders who have received a Diversionary Caution. Offenders attend two workshops which are designed to help them understand what domestic abuse is, the impact it has, and its consequences. It also signposts offenders to other specialist services.

This will be done in partnership with the Hampton Trust and GMP.

The Hampton Trust will have a grant agreement with GMCA, as the specialist organisation that can support the role out of CARA through GMP, ensuring that mobilisation of the service is to a correct standard and that the delivery of the programme will also be continually monitored. The Hampton Trust also holds the licence to deliver CARA.

GMP will commission a specialist organisation to deliver CARA and will be provided funding through the Home Office Grant.

The Deputy Mayor agrees to award GMP £90,000 and the Hampton Trust £44,800 to support the development and rollout of project CARA; The funding will be used from the Home Office Fund.