FOI2026/2042

The following questions concern NHS Greater Manchester ICB’s safeguarding role and responsibilities to tackle domestic abuse and violence against women and girls.

I would like to request the following information.

1. NHS England guidance stipulates that all ICBs must designate a member of their Executive Team as a Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence (DASV) Lead. Does your ICB have a named DASV lead?  
2. If yes, please provide:
3. A) Whether the DASV Lead role is dedicated, part of a wider safeguarding portfolio or undertaken alongside another role.
4. If part of a wider safeguarding portfolio, please provide details of other safeguarding roles.
5. If undertaken alongside another role, please provide details and job title.
6. Full-time (FTE) or Part-time (PTE)

3. If your ICB has a named DASV lead, please provide the role description or responsibilities associated with the DASV Lead function, including their obligations under the organisation/ICB’s governance and the Sexual Safety Charter.
4. If your ICB has a named DASV lead, do they attend the NHS England Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence Leads Network?
5. A) If not, does any member of staff represent the ICB at the NHS England Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence Leads Network?
6. Please provide any Terms of Reference or code equivalent for your organisation’s involvement with NHS England’s Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence Leads Network.
7. How many dedicated safeguarding roles (FTE) , including children and young people, did your ICB employ in the following months (if staff worked across safeguarding and other functions, please provide an estimate based on approximate staff time spent on safeguarding?

Please note if your ICB has been merged in this time period, please provide information for previous organisations.

1. April 1 2019
2. April 1 2020
3. April 1 2021
4. July 1 2022
5. April 1 2023
6. April 1 2024
7. April 1 2025
8. April 1 2026

6. How much did your ICB spend (allocated budget and actual spend) on safeguarding functions in the following financial years, including children and young people? Where possible, please state how much of each year’s budget was allocated to Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence responsibilities. Please note if your ICB has been merged in this time period, please provide information for previous organisations.  
7. a) 2019/20 (1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020)
8. b) 2020/21 (1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021)
9. c) 2021/22 (1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022)                                                      
10. d) 2022/23 (1 April 2022 to 31 March 2023)
11. e) 2023/24 (1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024)
12. f) 2024/5 (1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025)
13. g) 2025/6 (1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026)
14. Please state, for the following financial years, how much of this budget was allocated to Adult Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence responsibilities and how much was allocated to Children and Young People Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence responsibilities.

Please note if your ICB has been merged in this time period, please provide information for previous organisations. 
             

1. a) 2019/20 (1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020)
2. b) 2020/21 (1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021)
3. c) 2021/22 (1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022)                                                      
4. d) 2022/23 (1 April 2022 to 31 March 2023)
5. e) 2023/24 (1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024)
6. f) 2024/5 (1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025)
7. g) 2025/6 (1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026)
8. What budget has your ICB allocated to safeguarding, including children and young people, for the financial year 2026/27? Where possible, please state how much of this budget is allocated to Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence responsibilities.
9. Please state, for the financial year 2026/27 how much of the budget was allocated to Adult Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence responsibilities and how much was allocated to Children and Young People Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence responsibilities.

Please note if your ICB has been merged in this time period, please provide information for previous organisations.

1. Manisha Kumar Chief Clinical Officer (Executive Lead for Safeguarding)

2.

1. a) Manisha Kumar Chief Clinical Officer (Executive Lead for Safeguarding)
2. b) Supported by Associate Director Safeguarding
3. c) Associate Director Safeguarding
4. d) Full Time

3. Responsibilities include: zero approach to DASV across organisation, training, policy and procedures around DVA and Sexual Safety, oversight of organisational data and incidents. Commissioning of DVA services, assurance of commissioning health services with regard to DASV and Sexual Safety. Support to staff and managers, implementation of Sexual misconduct panels alongside Peoples Services, National and local audit submission.

4. Yes, via Associate Director Safeguarding

4a) Associate Director Safeguarding

4b) Part of NHSE DASV network and access via NHS Futures workspace.

5. NHS Greater Manchester ICB was formed on 1^st July 2022 following the merger of the 10 former NHS Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) of Greater Manchester, plus a range of other organisations. The 10 former CCGs were NHS Bolton CCG, NHS Bury CCG, NHS Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale CCG, NHS Manchester CCG, NHS Salford CCG, NHS Stockport CCG, NHS Tameside and Glossop CCG, NHS Trafford CCG and NHS Wigan Borough CCG.

Commissioning responsibility transferred from the 10 CCGs to NHS GM, with the exception of responsibility for patients registered with a Glossop based GP, for whom commissioning responsibility transferred to NHS Derby and Derbyshire ICB.

All staff of the former GM CCGs transferred to NHS GM.

Data is included below in respect of the headcount of safeguarding staff following the formation of NHS GM.

April 1 2019 (93 Headcount / 78.27 FTE)

April 1 2020 (83 Headcount / 63.53 FTE)

April 1 2021 (91 Headcount / 70.68 FTE)

July 1 2022 (91 Headcount / 76.32 FTE) (being the date NHS GM formed)

April 1 2023 (93 Headcount / 78.97 FTE)

April 1 2024 (88 Headcount / 68.30 FTE)

April 1 2025 (81 Headcount / 62.17 FTE)

April 1 2026 (62 Headcount / 50.00 FTE)

6. As described above, NHS GM was formed following the merger of the 10 CCGs. Information has been extracted from the ledgers of the 10 former CCGs to provide information in the table below, relating to costs identified on specific Safeguarding cost centres. However, the data below does not include data for Trafford CCG, as such Safeguarding costs were not specifically identified on their ledger until 2022/23 (marked with an asterisk).

7. As described above, the requested information has been extracted from the financial records of the predecessor CCGs (up to 30^th June 2022) and NHS GM (from 1^st July 2022). NHS GM and each predecessor CCG did not separately identify Safeguarding costs as being allocated to Adult Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence responsibilities or allocated to Children and Young People Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence responsibilities. As such, NHS GM does not hold information to enable it to answer this question.

8. Safeguarding corporate budget 26-27 is £4,619,493
9. As described above, NHS GM does not separately identify Safeguarding costs as being allocated to Adult Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence responsibilities or allocated to Children and Young People Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence responsibilities. As such, NHS GM does not hold information to enable it to answer this question.