Common use of PURPOSE AND INTENT OF THE AGREEMENT Clause in Contracts

PURPOSE AND INTENT OF THE AGREEMENT. 5.1 The Parties agree that the purpose of this Agreement is to create a national team for the Term (as further described in Schedule 1 (Employment Model), Schedule 2 (Outline of Groups) and Schedule 5 (Terms of Reference)) which shall be led by the Lead Force and which shall be responsible for supporting the NPCC Modern Slavery Lead to improve the policing response across England and Wales to Modern Slavery. Each of the Parties to this Agreement shall act in such a way as promotes the achievement of the Objectives of this Agreement. 5.2 The Parties agree that although a national team shall be established to deal with the approach to Modern Slavery as further set out in Schedule 1 (Employment Model) and Schedule 2 (Outline of Groups), no independent unit will be created for the purposes of this Agreement. 5.3 The intention of the Parties is that, at the end of the Term, each of the Parties to this Agreement shall possess the requisite skills to deal with Modern Slavery on an individual basis moving forward. 5.4 The Parties shall operate the provisions of this Agreement so as to achieve the following objectives: 5.4.1 To inform, on a national basis, how the Parties are going to respond to the issue of Modern Slavery; 5.4.2 To establish the temporary posts which are set out in Schedule 1 (Employment Model) of this Agreement on behalf of UK policing in order to improve the response and approach to Modern Slavery at a strategic and operational level which shall be funded in accordance with the terms of this Agreement; 5.4.3 To improve intelligence and analysis to assess the threat of Modern Slavery at a national and regional level, and to provide guidance to improve the operational response to Modern Slavery; 5.4.4 To integrate interdependent functions (nationally co-ordinated actions, assessment, guidance and training) enabling a significant change in the way in which Modern Slavery is policed; 5.4.5 To provide a more consistent, coordinated and informed response to Modern Slavery across England and Wales to reduce vulnerability, threat and risk; 5.4.6 To enable the officers to recognise and efficiently investigate Modern Slavery through the provision of national standardised training; 5.4.7 To extend and improve confidence in the assessment of Modern Slavery; 5.4.8 To increase the evidence base and available guidance to support police forces to increase their focus on prevention, demand reduction and targeted intelligence development and interventions; 5.4.9 To increase the evidence base and available guidance to support police forces to improve investigations, case file preparation and to overcome barriers to prosecution; 5.4.10 To set the foundation for closer working across child criminal exploitation, child labour exploitation, child sexual exploitation by exploring crossovers and minimising gaps in the police services policy, strategy and operational response; 5.4.11 To leave the police service and its partners better able to understand the threat of Modern Slavery, to know and promote what works best in tackling it, with strong embedded operational intelligence flows, more efficiently run investigations and increased delivery in terms of training.

PURPOSE AND INTENT OF THE AGREEMENT. 5.1 The Parties agree that the purpose of this Agreement is to create a national team for the Term (as further described in Schedule 1 (Employment Model), Schedule 2 (Outline of Groups) and Schedule 5 (Terms of Reference)) which shall be led by the Lead Force and which shall be responsible for supporting the NPCC Modern Slavery Lead to improve the policing response across England and Wales to Modern Slavery. Each of the Parties to this Agreement shall act in such a way as promotes the achievement of the Objectives of this Agreement. 5.2 The Parties agree that although a national team shall be established to deal with the approach to Modern Slavery as further set out in Schedule 1 (Employment Model) and Schedule 2 (Outline of Groups)2, no independent unit will be created for the purposes of this Agreement. 5.3 The intention of the Parties is that, at the end of the Term, each of the Parties to this Agreement shall possess the requisite skills to deal with Modern Slavery on an individual basis moving forward. 5.4 The Parties shall operate the provisions of this Agreement so as to achieve the following objectives: 5.4.1 To to inform, on a national basis, how the Parties are going to respond to the issue of Modern Slavery; 5.4.2 To to establish the temporary posts which are set out in Schedule 1 (Employment Model) of this Agreement on behalf of UK policing in order to improve the response and approach to Modern Slavery at a strategic and operational level which shall be funded in accordance with the terms of this Agreement; 5.4.3 To to improve intelligence and analysis to assess the threat of Modern Slavery at a national and regional level, and to provide guidance to improve the operational response to Modern Slavery; 5.4.4 To to integrate interdependent functions (nationally co-ordinated actions, assessment, guidance and training) enabling a significant change in the way in which Modern Slavery is policed; 5.4.5 To to provide a more consistent, coordinated and informed response to Modern Slavery across England and Wales to reduce vulnerability, threat and risk; 5.4.6 To to enable the officers to recognise and efficiently investigate Modern Slavery through the provision of national standardised training; 5.4.7 To to extend and improve confidence in the assessment of Modern Slavery; 5.4.8 To increase the evidence base to identify “what works” in preventing, investigating and available guidance to support police forces to increase their focus on prevention, demand reduction and targeted intelligence development and interventionsdisrupting Modern Slavery; 5.4.9 To increase the evidence base and available guidance to support police forces to improve investigations, case file preparation and to overcome barriers to prosecutionthe development of a co-ordinated partnership activity towards Modern Slavery; 5.4.10 To set to improve the foundation for closer working across child criminal exploitation, child labour exploitation, child sexual exploitation by exploring crossovers and minimising gaps in the police services policy, strategy and operational responseevidence bases which informs upstream prevention strategies; 5.4.11 To to support policing to improve its processes in relation to referrals into and from the National Referral Mechanism referrals by delivering a series of projects jointly with UK Immigration Enforcement; and 5.4.12 to leave the police service and its partners better able to understand the threat of Modern Slavery, to know and promote what works best in tackling it, with strong embedded operational intelligence flows, more efficiently run investigations and increased delivery in terms of training.