Commissioning and Partnership Services
The Commissioning & Partnerships team activity falls into 7 Key Categories:
- Developing the Policing, Fire & Crime (PFC) directorate of York & North Yorkshire Combined Authority’s Strategic Commissioning Plan (please also see Appendix 1)
- Delivering against the PFC directorate’s Strategic Commissioning Plan, including responsibility for the end-to-end Commissioning Cycle for all services:
a. Detailed information about the 28 key services we commission and funds we grant can be found on our website: Commissioned services – York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority – Policing, Fire and Crime Team; and Funding a community project – York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority – Policing, Fire and Crime Team
i. Twelve Victim services
ii. Ten Perpetrator schemes / programmes / interventions
iii. Three Vulnerable People’s services
iv. Three Community Engagement / Safety services / funds
3. Operational delivery of our unique, innovative in-house Supporting Victims service – our team of Victim Care Coordinators provide immediate support to victims of crime over the phone, undertaking needs assessments and making referrals into specialist cope and recovery support services (whether or not victims report to the police): How can we help? | Supporting Victims | North Yorkshire
4. Management of two partnership Funds, running four funding rounds for each per year: a. Community Fund: Apply for the Community Fund – York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority – Policing, Fire and Crime Team b. Community Safety & Serious Violence Fund: Apply for the Community Safety Serious Violence Fund – York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority – Policing, Fire and Crime Team
5. Securing additional funding from central government departments for York and North Yorkshire in relation to service delivery for the public; and delivering against any duties or grant funding the PFC directorate is responsible for e.g. Serious Violence Duty – mainly Ministry of Justice (MoJ) and Home Office (HO)
6. Enabling the PFC directorate to drive improvement in the Criminal Justice System, including offending and re-offending
7. Leading on Partnership working for the PFC directorate
a. Locally including:
i. Community Safety Partnerships
ii. Local Criminal Justice Partnership
iii. Domestic Abuse Local Partnership Boards
iv. Safeguarding Partnership Boards
v. Integrated Care Board
vi. Combating Drugs Partnerships
vii. Overarching Violence Against Women & Girls (VAWG) Strategy Governance
viii. Serious Violence Strategy Governance
b. Regionally including:
i. Regional Rehabilitation Partnership
c. Nationally including:
i. Association of Police & Crime Commissioners (APCC) – Commissioning, Victims and Criminal Justice portfolios
ii. Victims Commissioner
iii. Domestic Abuse Commissioner
iv. Children’s Commissioner
The team includes four Commissioning & Partnership Managers, each with end to end commissioning cycle responsibility for a specific portfolio of commissioned services; a Project Manager (on secondment with North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service until 2026); a Business Analyst; a Data & Systems Manager, with responsibility for our case management system and day to day management of the Supporting Victims service; a Commissioning, Criminal Justice & Partnerships Officer (vacancy); a Data Modeller (North Yorkshire Police member of staff); and a Team Leader and team of Victim Care Coordinators within our Supporting Victims Team.
In 2025/26, the Commissioning and Partnerships team will manage an expenditure budget of over £8m. This includes annual ring-fenced national grant funding for example towards cope and recovery services for victims of crime, and to develop and implement our serious violence strategy; funding from the local policing budget; and funding from partners towards joint or co-commissioning.
The expenditure budget for the work of the team in 2025/26 is outlined in the table below:
The team work collaboratively with local and regional partners, pooling funding and joint or co-commissioning services to maximise positive outcomes and impact for individuals and local communities. Services are aligned to the priorities set out in the Police and Crime Plan.
Commissioning and Partnerships Team
Wendy Green – Commissioning and Partnerships Manager
Wendy’s portfolio includes:
- Management of the in-house Supporting Victims Service
- Independent Victim Adviser (IVA) Service, delivered by Victim Support
- Restorative Practice Service (incorporating core Restorative Justice (RJ), Mediation, Community Conferencing, School RJ Peer Mentoring and Perpetrator Awareness/Behaviour Change Programmes), delivered by Restorative Solutions
- Force Control Room Mental Health Triage Service, delivered by Tees, Esk and Wear Valley NHS Trust including support of the North Yorkshire Police Right Care Right Person (RCRP) approach
- Independent Road Victim Adviser Service, delivered by Brake
- Orcuma First Case Management System and development of Commissioned Service Performance Reporting Capabilities
- Oversight of Home Office Grant Funding for Anti-Social Behaviour Hotspots Action Fund
- Skills Trailblazer: maximising access to skills and employment opportunities for those accessing commissioned services
- At scoping stage: Appropriate Adult Service for vulnerable adults
Wendy acts as subject matter expert for all the above.
Nicole Hutchinson – Commissioning and Partnerships Manager
Nicole’s portfolio includes:
- Counselling and Talking Therapies Service, delivered by Survive and Community Counselling, also incorporating Anger Management Service
- North Yorkshire Youth Commission, delivered by Leaders Unlocked, enabling the voice of young people to influence the work of policing, fire and crime
- North Yorkshire Youth Justice Service, supporting the prevention, diversion, and involvement of young people in the criminal justice system
- York Youth Justice Service, supporting the prevention, diversion, and involvement of young people in the criminal justice system
- Management of the Community Safety Serious Violence Fund
- Management of the Community Fund
- Leading on the PFC responsibility to convene local partnership arrangements for the Serious Violence Duty in order to support the implementation of the local strategy
- Leading on partnership work with Community Safety Partnerships
Nicole also jointly leads on our work to:
- Prevent and reduce crime
- Coordinate Criminal Justice Partners to align with local priorities
Nicole acts as subject matter expert for all the above.
Sally Lynch – Commissioning and Partnerships Manager
Sally’s portfolio includes:
- Domestic Abuse After-crisis (Peer Support) Services, delivered by New Beginnings Peer Support
- Independent Sexual Violence Adviser (ISVA) Services, delivered by Independent Domestic Abuse Services (IDAS) and the Halo Project
- Illegal Cultural Harms Support Services, delivered by the Halo Project
- Exploitation & Missing Support Service, delivered by St. Giles Trust
- Parent Liaison Officer Support Service for parents and carers of children who are / at risk of being exploited or repeatedly go missing, delivered by the Ivison Trust
- Crossroads: Adult Diversion scheme, delivered by Waythrough
- Change Direction: Young People’s Diversion scheme, delivered by North Yorkshire Youth
- North Yorkshire Substance Use Adult Service, delivered by North Yorkshire Horizons
- North Yorkshire Substance Use Young Person Service, delivered by Waythrough
- York Substance Use Service for both adults and young people, delivered by Change, Grow, Live
- York and Scarborough Women’s Centres and outreach, delivered by Changing Lives
- Liberty Links which delivers services to women on an outreach basis in rural and isolated areas and Women’s Whole System Approach Coordination bringing partners together to better support local women in a gender-specific and trauma-informed way, provided by St. Giles Trust
Sally also jointly leads on our work to:
- Tackle Violence Against Women & Girls
- Prevention and reduction of crime
- Coordinate Criminal Justice Partners to align with local priorities
Sally acts as subject matter expert for all the above.
Sarah Arnott – Commissioning and Partnerships Manager
Sarah’s portfolio includes:
- Support for Victims and Survivors of Domestic Abuse, delivered by Independent Domestic Abuse Services (IDAS)
- Support for Children & Young People Affected by Domestic Abuse, delivered by IDAS
- Services for Adult Perpetrators of Domestic Abuse, delivered by Inspire North
- (Adult) Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC) Services, delivered by Mountain Healthcare Ltd
- Child Sexual Assault Assessment Services (CSAAS), delivered by Mountain Healthcare Ltd
- Leading on partnership work with the Domestic Abuse Local Partnership Boards, including the Collaborative Commissioning arrangements for Domestic Abuse Support Services
- Leading on partnership work with the Safeguarding Partnerships Boards
Sarah also jointly leads on our work to:
- Tackle Violence Against Women & Girls
Sarah acts as subject matter expert for all the above.