Purpose

The ACE & Trauma Responsive Greater Manchester (TRGM) Programme was developed to ensure a coordinated population approach to reduce children and family’s exposure to trauma and to prevent or mitigate the consequences of trauma, by becoming a trauma responsive city-region. The programme is multiagency and cross cutting through the life course, and aims to affect transformational change across communities, workforces and service delivery, to ensure Greater Manchester (GM) have a trauma responsive approach across all sectors.

Trauma impacts every element of life and can affect a person’s ability to engage in society meaningfully. It can present as distressed or challenging behaviour and can ultimately affect relationships, engagement, employment and the ability to contribute to society in a positive and meaningful way. This is not inevitable and the way systems, staff and communities respond can have protective and positive effects. Therefore, it is strongly in the interests of the Standing Together Police & Crime Plan 2024-29 for GMCA to continue to invest in the programme through 2029.

In order to sustain momentum and ensure the linkages with key strategies such as the Greater Manchester Strategy, Live Well approaches, support for the 10-year NHS Plan and Locality plan arrangements further funding and a sustained commitment is required for this work. Centralised costs to maintain the programme include:

Additional funding to enable the continuation of programmes committed in 25/26

Oversight and coordination by a public health consultant for one day a week for three years

- Maintenance of the quality assured training framework
- A project officer to support coordination
- Ongoing evaluation by Liverpool John Moores University
- VCFSE grant funding for three years
- Funding to host the function in Salford, website and comms support

Decision

Grant funding is awarded to Salford City Council to contribute to the Trauma Responsive GM (TRGM) programme from 1st April 2026 through 31st March 2029. This will be covered by one multi-year grant agreement between GMCA & Salford Council covering the following yearly amounts totalling £552,879:

- 202627: £168,279
- 2027/28: £192,300
- 2028/29: £192,300