Decisions

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.

Approval of the consolidation of two existing loans into a single facility with Broughton House, totalling £4.1m, which needs to be made during the pre-election period, and cannot wait until the next GMCA meeting. The loans have been consolidated in order to improve the affordability of the loan and to better reflect the reduced lending risk.
The Combined Authority gave approval on 22nd March 2024 to give delegated authority for the period 23rd March 2024 to 30th May 2024 to the Combined Authority Chief Executive and the Combined Authority Treasurer, in consultation with the Portfolio Lead Leader for Investment and Resources, to approve funding requests for projects in the absence of a Combined Authority meeting at the end of April 2024, and approve any urgent variations on amounts and terms for already approved loans.

a) approve the consolidation of the two existing loans totalling £4.1m into a single facility with Broughton House;

b) note that the Combined Authority Treasurer and Combined Authority Monitoring Officer will review the due diligence information in respect of the above investment, and, subject to their satisfactory review and agreement of the due diligence information and the overall detailed commercial terms of the investment, to sign off any outstanding conditions, issue final approvals and complete any necessary related documentation in respect of the loan noted above.

The additional loan facility to Romaco Limited is in line with the strategic objectives of the business investment strategy and the Local Industrial Strategy and support the key objectives of supporting our globally competitive strengths and strengthening the foundations of our economy. Romaco Limited provides debt funding to SME developers, predominantly across the North.

The Combined Authority gave approval on 22nd March 2024 to give delegated authority for the period 23rd March 2024 to 30th May 2024 to the Combined Authority Chief Executive and the Combined Authority Treasurer, in consultation with the Portfolio Lead Leader for Investment and Resources, to approve funding requests for projects in the absence of a Combined Authority meeting at the end of April 2024, and approve any urgent variations on amounts and terms for already approved loans.

a) approve a further £2,000,000 loan facility to Romaco Limited;

b) note that the Combined Authority Treasurer and Combined Authority Monitoring Officer will review the due diligence information in respect of the above investment, and, subject to their satisfactory review and agreement of the due diligence information and the overall detailed commercial terms of the investment, to sign off any outstanding conditions, issue final approvals and complete any necessary related documentation in respect of the loan noted above.

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.

To continue to provide support to the delivery of the GM Youth Justice Transformation Programme on behalf of the GMCA. The previous Deputy Mayor funded £100,000.00 to Manchester City Council in August 2022 to support the development of the GM Youth Justice Transformation Programme on behalf of the GMCA. The funding was used for staffing resource to assist with the development of 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.

To achieve the goals and ambitions set out in the JRE Business Plan for the GM Youth Justice Transformation work programme, 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 and monitor the GM Youth Justice Transformation delivery plan underpinning the action plan.
• Support the 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. 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 deliver the activity and have led on discussions with the Directors of Children’s’ Services Group.

£45,000.00 funding is provided to Manchester City Council as a continuation of support to the delivery of the GM Youth Justice Transformation Programme on behalf of GMCA.

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

Mandem Meetup is a grassroots charity promoting, correcting and improving the conversation around men’s mental health and wellbeing. It provides an open, inclusive community for all those who identify as a man, integrating a range of social, holistic and more ‘traditional’ forms of clinical support, ranging from psycho-social interventions and recreational activities to practical advice and guidance, as well as talking therapy and more. To date, 1700+ men have received interventions from Mandem Meetup.

Mandem Meetup are part of the umbrella network of organisations within the Greater Manchester Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) and Trauma Responsive programme, which the VRU has co-funded extensively since both its- and the TR programme’s- inception in 2019. Within the GMCA, the GM Reform Board & VRU work with the GM NHS Integrated Care Board to promote a shared understanding of the concept of trauma-responsive care, recognising the prevalence of trauma in people’s lives and acknowledging potential effects that this can have on individuals, families, networks & communities. On 9th January 2024, 550 colleagues from across the GM system attended a VRU-sponsored event to hear about work that has been happening across Greater Manchester to achieve our goal of being an ACE and trauma responsive city-region, of which Mandem Meetup attended and participated at in partnership with We Are Survivors. This activity is central to the Greater Than Violence strategy, within which becoming a trauma responsive city region is one of 5 core principles.



Given their proximity to the VRU’s activity via Trauma Responsive GM and the terms of reference of all VRU delivery groups, Mandem Meetup have been awarded £10,000 in grant funding from the GM VRU to support the delivery of Mandem Meetup Trauma Responsive activity in 2024, and this Decision Notice seeks authorisation to proceed with this funding award.

In return for the funding, the VRU will require Mandem Meetup to report on outcomes per schedule 1 of the grant funding agreement.

A funding amount of £10,000 from the Violence Reduction Unit is to be awarded to Mandem Meetup in Q2 2024 via a grant funding agreement.

The withdrawal of Greater Manchester from the Home Office DRIVE perpetrator programme alongside much reduced funding secured from the most recent round of Home Office Perpetrator Funding has meant that Greater Manchester has faced a significant drop in potential income for perpetrator work.

These two factors have created an income gap for TLC in the 2023/24 financial year. TLC have taken the following action to mitigate the impact of this loss of income:

• Negotiating with Local Authorities to secure contributions.
• Restructuring / halting recruitment to vacant posts
• Applying for Trust and Grant funding
• Investigating the feasibility of establishing commercial income streams in other parts of the charity.


Despite all these efforts TLC remain just over £150,000 short of filling this income gap and this will impact on their ability to retain key staff and upon their preparedness to be a key agent of delivery of planned perpetrator provision associated with the national GM pilot of Domestic Abuse Protection Orders (DAPOs).

TLC are central to perpetrator provision within GM and are the only RESPECT accredited charity provider of perpetrator programmes in the City region.

• This offer of support will come with a clear proviso that this is a one-off bridging grant in recognition of the particularly difficult and unique circumstances.
• This offer is being made to strategically underpin perpetrator provision in GM and to support the successful delivery of the DAPO pilot.
• The grant will significantly reduce the risk of GM not having the infrastructure to be able to deliver on planned Home Office perpetrator programmes.
• This funding is in line with the GM Voluntary Sector Accord – to provide a bridging gap to ensure the resilience of the model.
• This grant funding should result in a return on some of the investment once the DAPO commences.

The Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime approves funding to support vital perpetrator intervention infrastructure in Greater Manchester by granting £150,000 to the Greater Manchester based charity Talk Listening Change (TLC).

This is a one-off bridging grant to ensure that there is appropriate voluntary sector infrastructure and resilience in place in to deliver Domestic Abuse Perpetrator work in Greater Manchester .

The Deputy Mayor for Police, Crime, Criminal Justice and Fire has a responsibility to provide services for victims of crime, including victims of rape and sexual assault.

In Greater Manchester, these support services are provided at the Sexual Assault Referral Centre, based at the St Mary’s Centre, NHS Manchester University Foundation Trust. The provision is an all-age service which provides support for victims of rape or sexual assault in terms of a forensic examination and crisis support, support for people going through the criminal justice process and therapeutic/counselling support. The service can be accessed by a referral from an agency, including but not exclusive to Greater Manchester Police, or victims can also choose to self-refer. The service currently supports anybody who lives in Greater Manchester in addition to providing support for individuals who were assaulted in Greater Manchester, but do not reside in the area.

Demand
There were nearly 12,000 sexual offences reported to GMP in 2023, of which 37% were rape. 58% of these offences were committed against adults whilst over 5000 sexual offences were committed against children. This included 1400 offences which were rape against a child. In 2023, SARC carried out 854 forensic medical examinations and 214 counselling cases were closed.

Progress towards agreeing a full Service specification for SARC and Implementing a 3-year contract

Over the course of 2022/23 the GM PCC have been working with SARC to both document the service provision with the associated costings, and also outline the service needs to improve operational delivery to meet demand. This is with a view to move to an agreed formal contracted position which will run until March 31st 2026. The first step in this process has been the GMCA, NHS Integrated Care and the Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust agreeing a price for the service.

We have been documenting SARCs services based on the segregation of the service into the below 4 pillars:

1. Forensic medical examinations for adults
2. Forensic medical examinations for children / young persons
3. ISVA provision
4. Therapeutic counselling support

We have moved to a position where we have agreed the service specification and fixed price for pillars 1,2 and 3 and are in the process of finalising a formal contract with the Trust for this provision which will run until March 31st 2026.

Pillar 4 The Therapeutic counselling support has inherent complications as demand has stripped capacity at SARC. We will seek procurement advice on meeting commercial compliance regulations with any agreed way forward for this work.

To allocate £3,003,594 to Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust for the provision of support services by the St Marys Centre to victims of rape and serious sexual offences to cover the period of 1st April 2023 - March 31st, 2024.This encompasses the full and complete costs for the service including quarterly contract payments, baseline of ISVA provision, therapeutic support, and also costs of the Forensic Medical Examinations. The fixed annual price has been pre agreed by the GMCA, NHS Integrated Care and the Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust.

The SARC service is jointly funded by Greater Manchester NHS Integrated Care on a 50/50 basis and as such, the amount indicated above is the total SARC budget. The GMCA/PCC contribution is half of this. (£1,501,797.40).

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.

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.

The APCC offers the following services to members:
• Provides Information on national policing policy issues and legislation.
• Consults PCCs to enable them to develop policy positions and to influence change.
• Facilitates the leadership of PCCs on national governance structures such as the College of Policing, National Crime Agency, other police professional bodies, and fire and rescue bodies.
• Provides a range of opportunities for members to come together to debate and discuss national policing and criminal justice policy and engage with senior stakeholders.
• Assists PCCs to share practice and identify ways to achieve efficiencies through collaboration.
• Support PCCs seeking to take on and fulfil fire and rescue governance responsibilities.

The annual subscription of £48,300 (+vat) is due on 1st April 2024 will be paid to the APCC.

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.

There is a need to develop and support learning and thinking with GM partners around the development of collaborative social learning. It is necessary to seek additional support to develop and embed the Communities of Practice model due to the capacity challenges amongst the GM Youth Justice Strategic Leads.

The anticipated outcomes of the model will include:

• Community of practice approach will be embedded within Youth Justice Services, with links to Children Services where relevant across GM.

• Young people in LAs across GM will benefit from improved practice knowledge and experience and sharing of best practice that arise from a process of collective learning amongst those delivering services in the YJ domain. This will include engaging in joint activities and discussions, sharing of experiences, learning and tools.

Dr Alex Chard was commissioned by West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner to develop a package of collaborative social learning for Youth Justice.

That an envelope of £30,000 be allocated from the Youth Justice Transformation Fund to commission Dr Alex Chard, YCTCS Ltd to develop Communities of Practice. The Communities of Practice will support the ambition within the Greater Manchester Youth Justice Transformation Plan to consider findings from quality assurance activity and national reviews/notifications to deliver the ‘best’ practice across GM.

Part 1 – Foundation work – The community of people
£18,000.00
• Senior leadership workshop –to reach a shared understanding of Communities of Practice and consult on the process going forward.
(4 days total).
• The consultancy/coaching around establishing the relationships/the community of people and the shared goals/understanding etc.
(16 days total).
Part 2 – Online Community of Practice – Build and Engagement Plans
£7,200.00
• The building of the online CoP will have multiple benefits to sustaining cohesion and effectiveness of the community of people.
(8 days – 4 days per group).
Part 3 – Project Administration
£3,600.00
• Planning, preparation and reporting back.

Travel and Subsistence envelope.
£1200
• Travel and subsistence costs.

The proposal was agreed at the Justice and Rehabilitation Executive on 30th October 2023.

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.

The reasons for the decision are:

This event is aimed to provide an open platform to engage with our commissioned victim support providers and deliver an update on the GM support offer to victims of crime which has recently gone through a process of review, investment and transformation.

It’s intended to facilitate open and honest conversations around current and upcoming challenges in the sector, and collectively identify and agree next steps. The second part in the afternoon will include a table-top group work exercise which will provide an opportunity for the sector to directly inform and feed into some current key work that is underway in relation to victims of crime support services.

Provider Catch22 is now fully mobilised as the Greater Manchester Victim Service (GMVS) delivering the contract for around 5 months. This provides an opportune moment to engage with the rest of the support sector to improve awareness of the service offer and establish/enhance linkage with providers. Building these relationships will assist in developing a more seamless offer to our victims of crime.
GMVS Dashboard

We are seeking sector feedback as we develop the victim’s dashboard which will be the tool used to update partners on the quantitative victims of crime data and trends across Greater Manchester.
Victims of Crime Survey Work

£1,666.67 be allocated from 3011 the Victims budget to fund the GM Victims Services Partnership event – ‘Improving the Victims Journey, Every Step of the Way’ taking place 13.03.24 at the Alan Manchester, Room: Situ, 18 Princess Street, Manchester, England, M1 4LG

Cost includes
• Room Hire with ICT setup and equipment hire for multiple screens
• Refreshments (Tea and Coffee) for 50 people
• Lunch for 50 people

TOTAL £ 1,666.67

‘Your Choice’ is the only current provider of bespoke, cohort-relevant training in CBT techniques that equips (at scale via train the trainer model) existing practitioners who are supporting children at risk of youth violence in the field of youth justice, youth work and complex safeguarding to enhance their practice with practical CBT tools, whilst working within a local authority’s practice framework. CBT is recognised as an effective intervention for a range of emotional and behavioural conditions associated with the use of violence. The programme enables existing youth practitioners to use CBT techniques available with children most affected by violence, through enhancing their skills in building therapeutic relationships with them, so that increased pro social behaviours and safety for these children can be achieved.

Whilst traditional CBT has sometimes been seen by some to negate systemic, relational and trauma-based approaches, this programme alternatively seeks to work with these wider understandings of the child’s personal / familial history and context and the systems of which they are a part.

The VRU wishes to award an allocation of £12,000 from the VRU Criminal Justice Delivery Group 23/24 budget to fund a contract enabling the scoping, feasibility assessment, and mobilisation of the ‘Your Choice’ Programme Pilot in Wigan with a view to then implementing in 24/25 and the potential for this to become a GM wide programme offer post Wigan evaluation.

‘Your Choice’ is a project aimed at reducing youth violence and helping young people to achieve their goals. The project works with children between 11 and 18 at risk of contextual harm, using psychologically informed, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) tools and techniques. It aims to empower young people by taking a public health approach to help break the cycle of violence and harm. It is currently delivered across 30 of the London Boroughs and has received funding from the London VRU, Home Office and Youth Endowment Fund to support implementation since 2021. This has included the YEF-funded evaluation Pilot Trial of ‘Your Choice’ from April 2022 to March 2023 (published October 2023). Following this YEF gave the go ahead for full-scale efficacy trial in May 2023 and this will run until Dec 2024. CBT is recognised within the YEF toolkit (An overview of existing research on approaches to preventing serious youth violence) as having a high impact on preventing violent crime.

The training of Wigan practitioners to deliver the pilot Your Choice Project in GM would be delivered via a Train the Trainer model, at local authority level. The identified trainers will have two days of introductory training, led by the pan-London Your Choice Programme Practice Lead. The Your Choice LA Trainers will then be equipped to deliver the four-day training programme to the youth practitioners who work within Wigan’s safeguarding adolescent service (which includes youth justice and complex safeguarding teams) in order to cascade best practice to practitioners within the system.

GMP has seen an increase in the use of Surron and other electric motorcycles over the last twelve months. The electric motorcycles feature heavily in complaints regarding anti social behaviour (Riding off road / footpaths / Inappropriate Speed / manner of riding) and their use to assist in criminal activity ( Theft from persons / theft from vehicles / drug transportation ).

The majority of the electric motorcycles are being ridden on the road illegally as the riders do not hold a licence or insurance which is required by law and are being ridden in a manner that is causing danger to both themselves and other road users.

GMP will see the relaunch of a dedicated Motorcycle Unit in April 2024. Officers will deploy on a mixed fleet of bikes with road and off road capability.

The two Surron Ultra Bee Motorcycles being purchased would be used to tackle both criminality and road safety and would feature at the various road safety events that GMP attend, promoting the legal use and safe riding.

Funding of £18,139 is approved to be spent by GMP to purchase and maintain two Surron Electric Motorcycles.

The Safe Drive Stay Alive (SDSA) programme has been run across Greater Manchester for the last ten years. This is an emotionally engaging performance delivered in collaboration between Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS), Greater Manchester Police (GMP), Northwest Ambulance Service (NWAS), and Salford Royal Foundation Trust (SRFT).

The performance uses case studies of road accidents and collisions told through the experiences of first responders, accompanied by video clips from families who have lost loved ones through road traffic accidents. The performances are very thought provoking and are aimed at educating the young people present of the risks and consequences of driving irresponsibly.

The scheme is currently being independently evaluated to offer critique and advise on the effectiveness of the programme and how it should be run moving forward. This role will design and implement the recommendations of that evaluation due in Spring 2024. In addition, the role will continue to develop an engagement programme utilising the Virtual Reality kit/software acquired by GMFRS in 2023. The VR programme provides a unique opportunity to experience the impact of decisions made whilst driving.

The post will ensure this engagement activity continues whilst the new Vision Zero Strategy and delivery plan is developed and implemented across Greater Manchester, expected in late 2024 – at which point, there will be a greater understanding of the requirements and resources required to drive the work moving forward.

The role will also support consultation in relation to a revised road safety approach to support the 2025-29 Fire Plan and associated Prevention Strategy.

Funding of £25,000 is made available to GMFRS in support of the Road Safety Development Officer role to drive a programme of engagement and awareness over the next 12 months. The payment will be match funded by the Greater Manchester Safer Roads Partnership.

The reasons for the decision are:
The National Anti-Corruption and Abuse Reporting Service has been commissioned nationally on behalf of the police service. It is being supported by the National Police Chief’s Council and will be implemented by Greater Manchester Police upon go-live in early 2024.

The reporting service gives members of the public a way to report information about a police officer or a member of police staff who they believe are taking advantage of their role or abusing their position of trust.

The service is run by the charity Crimestoppers, providing an anonymous and confidential reporting option, independent of the police service. When people contact the service, they can choose to remain 100% anonymous, or can opt to leave their details if they are willing for the force investigation team to contact them directly.

To provide funding of £8,223.71 in 2024/25 in support of a new national Anti-Corruption and Abuse Reporting Service, operated by Crimestoppers. This represents 50% match funding with GMP.

In addition, to agree in principle, to the provision of funding of £7,122.65 in 2025/26, 2026/27 and 2027/28, matched funded by GMP.
Total funding £29,591.66

The reasons for the decision are:

Greater Manchester is one of the few areas in the country who provide immediate accommodation for potential victims of modern slavery at point of identification. This allows individuals to be placed into the place of safety where they can have their immediate needs met and be allowed the time to be empowered and decide what is the next best course of action for them.

The funding covers the cost of providing utilities to the accommodation, as well as toiletries, clothes and food for all victims who use the accommodation for a 12-month period.

It enables immediate hygiene and nutrition needs to be met, and provides a safe, warm and comfortable environment for what may be the first time in years. Clean clothes are provided, and each victim is able to leave with a bag of possessions, which again they may not have had for a number of years.

In 2022/23, safe and immediate accommodation was provided to 18 victims, and from 1st April 2023 to 12th March 2024, by 27 victims.

£5,000 will be provided to GMP to cover the costs of providing the Greater Manchester place of safety for victims of modern slavery from April 2023 to March 2024.

Hope Hack brings together young people from across a region to share their views, thoughts, and ideas on how to make their region a safer and fairer place. This event will bring together young people aged 13-21 and from a range of backgrounds.

The views collected from young people at Hope Hack events across the country, will go on to form the basis of a new report, ‘Reimagined’, produced by the Hope Collective. It will be presented to political parties for consideration as they produce their manifestoes ahead of the next General Election. This ground-breaking report will outline what young people would like to see happen to make the UK a better place to live and grow up in.

The YMCA event aligns with several commitments made within the Greater Than Violence strategy and consultation arising from the implementation plan that will sit under the strategy. The VRU is keen to facilitate partnership work that support effective transitions from custody and/or education into further training/employment and the victims lead is attending to bring eLearning back from the YMCA event to GM.

The Greater Manchester Violence Reduction Unit are seeking to make the following payment covering travel & accommodation for the following Hope Hack & YMCA Events on Wednesday 27th and Thurs 28th March 2024:

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A payment to be made of £346.78 to cover travel (train from Manchester to Milton Keynes, standard return fare for 1 person). The attendee is the VRU Victims Lead.

27th March - Attend Milton Keynes Hope Hack with specific themes around mental wellbeing (to consider similar here in GM for the future)

28th March - Half day with YMCA and introduction to their ‘transitions’ programme supporting those exiting custody or from alternative education provision into training / employment / housing.

Operation Student Safe, active from September to April, has shown promising results, particularly in the reduction of burglary and violent crimes in the Fallowfield/Withington area, a region historically plagued by high student-related crimes.

The creation of the University Engagement Team (UET) has been instrumental in this process, enabling proactive student engagement and enhancing overall safety. The UET's objectives include reducing serious acquisitive crime (SAC) and violent crimes, increasing student engagement, addressing underreporting, and minimizing Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG). The Team works closely with university and council partners to address anti-social behaviour (ASB).

The operation has been particularly successful in and around the Fallowfield Loop (the designated area for the Safer Streets Bid). This is often seen as a challenging location due to its concealed nature and accessibility for offenders. However, the lack of a dedicated vehicle for the University Engagement Team has posed challenges, limiting operational efficiency. The provision of a dedicated vehicle will significantly improve the UET’s efficiency, allowing for the team to build upon this year's achievements and further enhance student safety in the locality.

The funding decision aligns with the Safer Streets Fund Round Four's focus on reducing neighbourhood crimes and VAWG.

This funding is to be provided through the Home Office Safer Streets Fund Round 4 fund which has a total budget of £453,080.

The Deputy Mayor, through the use of the Home Office Safer Streets Fund, will fund the use of a dedicated vehicle for GMP's University Engagement Team and Operation Student Safe.

The value of this is £5,504.20

The Home Office Safer Streets Fund 22/23 has a total budget of £453,080 and a grant agreement exists between the GMCA and the Home Office.

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.