Issue details
Programme Challenger funding
The reasons for the decision are:
£49,000 – The delivery of the Modern slavery and human
trafficking data and information contract is contributing to the 4P
approach to tackle this issue in Greater Manchester. It supports
the Challenger partnership to better understand what the threat
looks like so that prevention, responses and safeguarding is
improved.
£20,000 – Development of a Partnership Intelligence
Portal. This is based on a model developed by West Yorkshire
Police, and provides an effective mechanism for the FIB in GMP to
share relevant aspects of their intelligence collection plan with
partners, and receive in intelligence as a result, enabling
appropriate assessment and classification of that intelligence
within the FIB, to enable consideration of relevant action as a
result. This amount is carry forward from 2021/22. Changes to GMP
IT systems and the intelligence department delayed implementation
in the originally allocated financial year.
£15,000 – To target OCG hot spots and support place
based interventions in Manchester and Salford. The two Council
areas continue to represent the highest levels of SOC threat across
Greater Manchester. The funding contributes to primarily prevention
and safeguarding activity, including in 2021/22 targeted work with
young people at risk of involvement in serious criminality in North
Manchester and contribution to an employment programme for those
leaving custody in Salford.
£10,000 – To administer, support and develop the
Anti-Slavery NGO Forum. This was conducted previously by Stop the
Traffik and it is important that ownership of the forum remains in
the voluntary and community sector. The Forum remains a vital part
of the partnership landscape tackling modern slavery and human
trafficking, enable information regarding threats and trends to be
shared across organisations, and shared responses and activity to
be coordinated, where relevant.
£30,000 – Commissioning of a new phase of the Trapped
campaign, raising awareness of criminal exploitation across Greater
Manchester. Criminal exploitation accounts for the highest
proportion of new referrals into victim care support, and modern
slavery enquiries into GMP. The Trapped campaign will form an
important aspect of the ‘prevent’ approach to tackling
serious and organised crime in Greater Manchester.
£2,808 – To commission Carbon to design the refreshed
Greater Manchester Serious and Organised Crime Strategy 2022-2025
and Plan on a page, via a single quote process. This will align to
other Greater Manchester wide strategies in its design and enable
distribution across stakeholders.
£5,000 – Contribution to University of Manchester
Department of Criminology to complete an applied research project
across Greater Manchester to map pathways for cuckooing victims
across law enforcement, housing and adult social services
functions. This is seeking to address that is increasingly being
highlighted by local partnerships as a gap in knowledge and
understanding, which risks impacting victim care and support. The
independent nature of the mapping of the pathways will support an
accurate understanding of the opportunities and gaps, and will
enable key information to be fed into potential funding and
commissioning discussions.
£3,500 – To commission Research in Practice to deliver
a developmental workshop for Challenger/complex safeguarding
district teams and the VRU. Since the introduction of complex
safeguarding in 2018, the function of both these and Challenger
teams have evolved. The introduction of the Violence Reduction Unit
has brought and additional resource and policy implication, and the
workshop will support improved alignment of operationalising
strategies and plans.
£10,000 – Contribution to the Magpie partnership
(tackling counterfeit goods in Cheetham Hill) to commission and
deliver a communication strategy targeting the area and associated
criminality/concerns. Couterfeit criminality of both goods and
pharmaceuticals within the Cheetham Hill area of Manchester
represent a significant serious and organised crime threat. A
communications strategy is required to complement the continued
enforcement activity and support the prevent and protect agenda of
the Magpie Partnership.
£4,900 – Match funding Survivor Care bags. In 2021, a
total of 562 individuals were recorded as potential victims of
modern slavery or human trafficking in Greater Manchester. A number
of these were submitted to the National Referral Mechanism (NRM) to
enable support to be accessed, whilst the remaining were suspected
of being a victim by a first responder but did not want to be
submitted to the NRM and instead were submitted as an unnamed
potential victim under first responder’s duty to notify. 301
of these individuals were recorded as adults and 192 of these were
recorded as having a non-British nationality. Some of those
survivors who are identified will have nothing to call their own.
The care bags provide individuals with something they can keep and
take with them when they go into, for example, NRM provision,
enabling them to have those first steps of independence.
Decision type: Non-key
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Notice of proposed decision first published: 08/08/2022
Decision due: 30 May 2022 by Director for Police, Crime, Criminal Justice and Fire, GM Deputy Mayor, Treasurer GMCA
Contact: Lisa Lees Email: lisa.lees@greatermanchester-ca.gov.uk.
Decisions
- 08/08/2022 - Programme Challenger funding
Background papers