Police and Crime Commissioner’s Part Year Grant Allocation October 2014 – March 2016:
CSP: Manchester
Please provide details below of your intentions for the allocation of the Commissioner’s Community Safety fund grant between October 2014 and March
2015. Please include details of how the proposals meet your local needs assessment, the Police and Crime Plan and any linked match funding or resources
in kind.
Description of Intended spend
Amount
Needs assessment
CSP Priority – Anti Social Behaviour
Protecting and providing support to
complainants of anti social behaviour whom
are most vulnerable is a priority for the CSP.
Funding to support a project provided by
ASBAT which aims to provide one to one
support and advocacy to those identified as
vulnerable via a RAM.
£18k
CSP Priority – Tackling Drug and Alcohol
Related Crime
The CSP is working with Public Health
Manchester to scope alcohol initiatives and
identify any gaps in services. The CSP will
support the recently launched Alcohol Brief
Interventions initiative. This allows people
issued with a FPN for an alcohol related offence
to elect to attend a one-to-one advice session
concerned with their alcohol misuse and
£20k
More than one in three anti social behaviour
incidents reported to GMP is committed in
Manchester and the volume of incidents
reported across the City is almost twice the
level reported in the next highest authority
(Wigan).
Manchester has developed a Vulnerability
Assessment tool for ASB. Those who are
identified as the most vulnerable either by
being a repeat victim, the ASB having a direct
impact on the individual’s mental or physical
health or where the ASB is targeted, are
referred to a local multi-agency Vulnerability
Conference where an action plan is
developed.
Manchester is one of the worst ranked
authorities across Greater Manchester for
alcohol abuse, alcohol related crime and drug
use. Manchester was ranked the worst out of
all 326 authorities in the most recent Local
Alcohol Profiles for England for alcohol related
mortality amongst males.
Match funding or
resources in kind
MCC currently fund an
ASB service which
provides support to
complainants of ASB.
This funding will be
overseen by the ASBAT
Team Leader who will
arrange for specialist
support for vulnerable.
The revenue generated
from people electing to
attend the alcohol brief
intervention course will
pay for the cost of the
Community alcohol
Team to run the
courses.
offending behaviour.
Designing resource tool for frontline staff
working with young people around cannabis
use and new and emerging drugs.
CSP Priority - Changing Offender Behaviour
Restorative Justice - £20K
Coaching Inside and Out - £15k
Sanctuary Supported Living - £35k
Initiatives to change offenders’ behaviour
including:
Scoping and developing neighbourhood justice
models across Manchester, in particular
focusing on young people.
Providing a mentoring service for female
offenders or those at risk of offending to help
the women change their lives through
developing skills and taking responsibility.
Issues such as drug and alcohol use,
accommodation, health, relationships and
managing money are covered.
Supported accommodation for offenders –
intensive package of supervision, monitoring
and support for up to 5 offenders at any one
time referred by IOM
CSP Priority – Protecting Vulnerable People
Developing initiatives to protect those
individuals and communities who are most
vulnerable to the impact of crime and antisocial behaviour
£20k
£15k
£35k
£70k total
£20k
Manchester has the highest rate of opiate and
/ or crack cocaine users in Greater
Manchester with a successful completion for
users lower than the national average.
The latest proven reoffending statistics show
that 29.6% of adult offenders had reoffended
for the period July 2011 – June 2012.
Manchester has recently seen an increase in
the average number of re-offences per reoffender.
Juvenile re-offending rates for Manchester are
showing an increasing trend with 43.2% of
individuals reoffending for the period July
2011 – June 2012.
Women offenders may constitute only 15% of
the offender population but their offending is
often prolific and they have complex needs.
They often access services in a chaotic way
whilst in crisis.
Manchester experienced 23.7% of all
domestic abuse offences in 2013/14, with a
higher proportion of violence with injury
offences at 24.5%.
The current MARAC system in Manchester is
over-subscribed and the number of IDVA
Support Workers is under-resourced.
Hate crime is a strategic priority in
MCC’s Mediation and
ASB services will
provide support to the
development of
restorative justice in
Manchester.
Women MATTA provide
a through the gate and
community based
service for women
offenders currently
funded through NOMs.
The CRC, GMP and YOS
provide the offender
management service for
prolific offenders.
Manchester. Third Party Reporting Centres
have been reviewed and mandatory training
offered to all staff.
Manchester has the highest proportion of
crimes reported to GMP where the victim is
identified as vulnerable.
CSP Priority - Tackling Serious and Organised
Crime
Working with Operation Challenger to develop
a fuller picture of organised crime in
Manchester. Develop initiatives to protect
communities from the impact of serious and
organised crime through prevention, targeted
intervention and disruption.
CSP Priority – Tackling Crimes that have the
most impact
Domestic abuse initiatives including the
Voluntary Perpetrator Programme and the
Sanctuary Scheme – target hardening property
of those identified as at risk in their own
homes, where it has been assessed as safe for
them to remain and where the victim wishes to
remain.
Developing an effective intervention for under
18 prolific burglary offenders.
Each SRF has been allocated funding to tackle
emerging priorities and hotspot areas. SRF
Delivery Groups are provided with SRF briefings
on a monthly basis which identify emerging
threats relating to crime type, location,
offenders, etc. Funding will particularly focus
£20k
£15k DV
£75K
As of April 2014 there were 35 Organised
Crime Groups (OCGs) identified as being active
in Manchester. 33 of these groups were
believed at that time to have the intent and
capability to commit serious crime. 16 of the
groups had known links to other OCGs and 3
were flagged as having exceptional
community impact.
Manchester experiences a relatively high
number of domestic abuse offences in
comparison with the rest of Greater
Manchester, and the number of offences in
Manchester is on the increase.
There were 3,405 offences of domestic abuse
in Manchester during 2013/14, an increase of
218 from the previous year. Domestic abuse
victims suffer a relatively high number of
offences involving violence with injury.
Victim based crime rates in Manchester are
relatively high compared with the rest of
Greater Manchester and during the last 12
months have started to increase. Manchester
had 46,114 victim based offences in 2013/14
which was 28.1% of the Greater Manchester
total. The biggest increases have been other
theft, domestic burglary and violence without
Operation Challenger,
the Greater Manchester
response to tackling
organised crime are
providing support and
intelligence in kind
on developing partnership responses to
tackling burglary, robbery, and violence.
injury.
CSP Priority - Tackling Hidden Crime
There are some crimes and behaviours where
the people who experience it are less likely to
report what has happened to them to the
police or any other agency, for example due to
fear of reprisal, shame, fear of not being taken
seriously, etc.
Working with partners, Manchester will
develop initiatives to tackle child sexual
exploitation, forced marriage, female genital
mutilation, hate crime and trafficking.
£20k
As of May 2014, Manchester’s Protect Team
had 96 open cases involving child sexual
exploitation. There were 64 offences across
Greater Manchester during 2013/14 where
the victim was flagged on the crime report as
a victim of child sexual exploitation, 11 of
which happened in Manchester.
Over a quarter of all hate incidents and hate
crimes are committed in Manchester. During
2013/14 a total of 866 crimes and 264 noncrime incidents were reported across
Manchester.
CSP Priority - Making the City Centre
Develop approaches to reduce the impact of
alcohol and the night time economy
Work with partners including Health, Pub and
Club Network and MCC/GMP Licensing Teams
to develop a partnership approach to managing
premises selling alcohol
£60k
Cross cutting
Continued employment of the Data and
Information Manager and the Strategic
Analytical Partnership Coordinator. These
Partnership Analysts produce reports, research,
data and statistics both at a city-wide and an
SRF/INPT level. They also produce reports
£44k
Over a fifth of all victim-based crime in
Manchester happens in the City Centre. This
proportion rises to 29.2% between the hours
of midnight and 6am, and 41% between these
hours on Saturday and Sunday morning.
The City Centre is a significant hotspot for
alcohol related crime and new initiatives aim
to change the tone of the City Centre and
make it safer.
The Partnership Analysts were responsible for
producing the needs assessment
MCC and GMP’s
Licensing Team and
Neighbourhood Delivery
Team will support this
initiative.
covering thematic areas and analysis for
seasonal campaigns.
In considering the Commissioning Principles, have you identified any risks and if so how are you mitigating them?
The short term nature of this funding gives rise to a number of problems when allocating funding. A number of organisations who had traditionally
received funding from the Home Office (pre 2013/14) and subsequently from the PCC’s Community Safety funding have indicated that they are not
able or willing to employ staff for such a short period of time. This impacts upon the services that can be offered. Where possible, the CSP has used
its mainstream funding to lengthen the life of some projects. Alternatively, the CSP has persuaded some agencies to run short-term pilots.
What outcomes do you expect to achieve from this funding?
This funding will assist the CSP in meeting its priorities as identified in the Community Safety Strategy 2014/16. Eight priorities have been identified
with some crime types and behaviours straddling more than one priority. For example, the funding to be used to provide support for vulnerable
victims of ASB will assist the CSP in tackling asb and help protect vulnerable people. The funding will allow ASBAT to buy in specialist services for
particularly vulnerable victims such as counselling. This will support victims and strengthen their capacity to resolve issues themselves.
The Alcohol Brief Interventions project aims to reduce alcohol use and alcohol related crime and anti-social behaviour through educating people
about their alcohol consumption and its impact on their behaviour.
The three initiatives aimed at changing offender behaviour will contribute towards reducing reoffending. The Reducing Reoffending Strategy Group
(a sub-group of the CSP Performance Board) has set a target of reducing reoffending by 10% during 2014/15 compared to 2013/15.
The domestic abuse proposals around the Voluntary Perpetrator Programme and target hardening will assist the CSP in meeting its priories around
protecting vulnerable people, changing offender behaviour, and tackling the crimes that have the most impact.
Initiatives aimed at protecting vulnerable people and tackling hidden crimes and behaviour such as hate crime, domestic abuse, and child sexual
exploitation aim to support victims, raise awareness amongst individuals and communities and encourage report. As people’s awareness is raised
and their confidence increased, we would expect to see an increase in reporting.
The funding used to tackle emerging threats in each SRF will reduce the crimes that have the most impact such as robbery, burglary and violence
offences.
Submitted by:
Date:
Rebecca Bryant
30 July 2014