Decisions

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.

The Independent Custody Visiting Scheme is a statutory Scheme under the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act Part 3 Section 299 whose responsibility and oversight lies with the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner, in consultation with the Chief Constable.

In 2019/20 the GHSCF has launched an additional element to the annual event. One grant per year will be selected as a ‘superbid’ and will received 3 year’s funding of £5,000 per annum. This grant will not be awarded from the current funding pot and in year 1 (19/20) this will require an additional £5,000 of funding, in Year 2 this will require an additional £10,000, and £15,000 in Year 3, since by this point there will be three super bids, each in a different year of their 3 year grant, each receiving £5,000 per annum.

New Pathways total grant allocation for 2019/20 is £230,505 Cyfannol Women's Aid total grant allocation for 2019/20 is £69,101

A review panel made up of representatives of the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner (OPCC), Gwent Police and the Safer Gwent Partnership considered the allocation of funding to organisations and made recommendations in respect of each application. The panel recommendations were considered by a decision panel made up of representatives from the OPCC and Gwent Police on 1st February 2019 where it was agreed that the total sum awarded to successful organisations would be £725,853.00..

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