Decisions

The finding will be provided to Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council, Newport City Council and Gwent Police to deliver a whole system response to vulnerability by implementing Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) informed approaches for operational policing and key partners.

Age Cymru Gwent - To continue to fund 30 hours of support by the Older People's Caseworker. Amount: £18,750. Aneurin Bevan University Health Board (ABUHB) - To continue to fund the Well-Being Practitioner jointly with ABUHB. Amount £24,500. Umbrella Cymru - to provide support to those victims who require it in relation to their gender or sexual identity. Amount £5,000

A procurement process has commenced to replace the service; the earliest a new contract can be expected to be inplace to deliver the new service is October 2019.

The successful applicants which I have authorised 1 years funding for are listed below: Xcelerate Youth - £12,000 towards a family worker / counselling practitioner who will work alongside children with challenging behaviours and their families. The projects aims will help prevent and / or avert anti-social behaviour, provide victim support, help to positively develop young people and improve community cohesion. Duffryn Community Link - £24,904.50 towards youth workers, venue hire, equipment and activity costs for the Youth Link project. The project will provide diversionary out of school hours and holiday activities for young people aged 8 – 16 years old whilst also supporting, engaging with and encouraging young people to make positive contributions to their community. Drop in facilities for 11 – 18 year olds will also be available to identify individual or group problem areas; providing positive workable solutions on a group or one to one basis. Volunteering Matters - £2,250 towards the Safe Male Film Project which expands on their Safe Male project which works with men aged 16 – 35 with learning needs and disabilities. This is a peer led project that delivers workshops on safe relationships, consent, internet and personal safety, sexual health, mate crime and exploitation in a totally accessible and inclusive way. The Safe Male Film Project will involve the men in developing a short film to raise awareness of appropriate sexual health and relationships for men with disability and highlight the dangers and pitfalls of exploitation especially around Mate Crime.

The contract is awarded for a period of 2 years with the option to extend for a further 2 years.

The temporary appointment will remain in place until the current recruitment process to appoint a new Chief Constable has been finalised and ratified by the Police and Crime Panel.

Section 26 of the Police Act 1996 requires that the Police and Crime Commissioner authorises the travel and attendance overseas of any officer or staff member providing assistance to an internal organisation or any other body which is engaged outside the UK in policing activities.