Decisions

The Police and Crime Commissioner for Gwent has agreed to provide £25,000 to the Gwent High Sheriff's Community Fund for 2024/25, with an option of match funding up to an additional £25,000. A further £15,000 to support year 1, 2 and 3 of the Superbid will also be provided.

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.

FOIA provides access to information held by public authorities. Under the FOIA, public authorities are obliged to publish certain information about their activities, this is referred to as a Publication Scheme. Members of the public are also entitled to request any recorded information held by them

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.

The Treasury Management Annual Report was scrutinised by the Joint Audit Committee on 15th June 2023

The Fund currently allows for applicants to apply for three years’ worth of funding.  It is however recommended that due to the election in May 2024, the Fund rules be amended to allow applications for only one year’s worth of funding so that the elected PCC can review the Fund and consider any changes they may want to implement once in post. 

Due to the nature of the existing three year grant awards, for 2024/25, out of the £300,000 available, £207,352 has already been ringfenced for the delivery of year two and year three projects.  This means that the funding available for the 2024/25 period amounts to £92,648.

The Commissioner is satisfied that the complaints examined had been dealt with appropriately by the Chief Constable.

Following a request for additional funding the PCC has decided to make a further award of £16,000 to Cyfannol for the period of 1 August 2023 – 31 March 2024 to maintain their Independent Sexual Violence Advisors provision at current levels for the remainder of the financial year due to loss of funding from another funder.