Freedom of information (FOI) releases from Herefordshire Council

This is a disclosure log of Herefordshire Council's responses to freedom of information (FOI) or environmental information regulations (EIR) requests that might be of wider public interest.

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1,821 disclosures

1. Social Listening and Media Monitoring

   The details we require are:

   1) Do you use any social listening or media monitoring tools?

   2) If so, what tools do you use?

   3) How much do you spend annually on Social listening and / or media monitoring tools?

   4) When does your contract with your supplier end?

   5) Who is the senior officer in charge of this contract?

   Published: 24 November 2022

2. ICT server and SAN contracts

   This is a request for information that relates to the organisation's contracts around ICT contract(s) for Server Hardware Maintenance, Server Virtualisation Licenses and Maintenance and Storage Area Network (SAN) Maintenance/Support, which may include:

   • Server Hardware Maintenance- contracts relating to the support and maintenance of the organisation's physical servers.

   • Virtualisation Maintenance/Support/ Licensing (VMware, Solaris, Unix, Linux, Windows Server)

   • Storage Area Network Maintenance/Support (EMC, NetApp etc)

   For each of the types of contract described above, please can you provide me with the following data. If there is more than one contract please split the information for each separate supplier this includes annual spend

   1. Contract Title: Please provide me with the contract title.

   2. Type of Contracts (ABOVE): Please can you provide me with one or more contract types the contract relates to: Server Hardware, Virtualisation, SAN (Storage Area Network)

   3. Existing/Current Supplier: Please provide me with the supplier name for each contract.

   4. Brand: Please state the brand of hardware or software

   5. Operating System / Software (Platform): (Windows, Linux, Unix, Vsphere, AIX, Solaris etc.) Please state the operating system used by the organisation.

   6. Annual Average Spend: Please provide me with the most recent annual spend for this contract?

   7. Contract Duration: (Please can you also include notes if the contract includes any contract Extension periods.)

   8. Contract Expiry Date: Please can you provide me with the date of when the contract expires.

   9. Contract Review Date: (An approximate date of when the organisation is planning to review this particular contract.)

   10. Purchase of Servers: Could you please provide me with the month and year in which most/bulk of servers were purchased.

   11. Number of Physical Server: Please can you provide me with the number of physical servers.

   12. Number of Virtual Servers: Please can you provide me with the number of Virtual servers

   13. Brief Contract Description: I require a brief description of the service provided under this contract. Please do not just put maintenance. I need at least a sentence.

   14. Contract Owner: (The person from within the organisation that is responsible for reviewing and renewing this particular contract. Please include their full name, job title, direct contact number and direct email address.)

   If this service is part of a managed contract, please can you send me the contract information for this managed service including Hardware Brand, Number of Users, Operating System, and contact details of the internal contact responsible for this contract

   Published: 23 November 2022

3. Training course for fabricated or induced illnes

   1. Please provide the details specified in (a) - (c) below concerning training courses provided by your authority (whether 'in-house' or externally funded) that specifically addressed the issue of FII (fabricated or induced illness). This request is limited to those courses that have been provided since April 2019 for your staff members (including agency staff) who were involved in the assessment of disabled children and their families for disability specific support services under the Children Act 1989 and the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970.

   a. The name of the course or courses;

   b. Copies of the course programme or course programmes; and

   c. The number of staff who have attended the course, or if there was more than one course, the number of staff who have attended each of the courses.

   2. Please provide a copy (in printed or electronic form) of the written policy / guidance that your authority provides to its assessors, for dealing with instances of FII.

   Published: 23 November 2022

4. Energy Supply Procurement & Costs

   For the year ending March 31 2022, please provide your organisation's approximate total annual cost expenditure for grid supplies of:

   · Electricity

   · Natural gas

   Please provide the current total number of supplies (billed meter points) for;

   · Half Hourly metered electricity

   · Non Half Hourly metered electricity

   · Natural gas

   The following questions relate to your main supplier or main contracts, I do not require details of suppliers for a small number of miscellaneous supplies)

   Please provide the name of your current primary licenced retail suppliers for :

   · Half Hourly metered electricity

   · Non Half Hourly metered electricity

   · Natural gas

   Please provide the relevant reference number or similar reference detail of the OJEU framework or tender exercise through which supplies were procured for:

   · Half Hourly metered electricity

   · Non Half Hourly metered electricity

   · Natural gas

   If the procurement route is facilitated by a Public Sector Buying Organisation (PBO) (e.g CCS, YPO, etc), please provide the name of the PBO facilitating your contract for:

   · Half Hourly metered electricity

   · Non Half Hourly metered electricity

   · Natural gas

   Please provide contact details for the procurement manager at your Organisation responsible for these call-offs or awards of energy supply contracts, or where this person is no longer employed by your Organisation, for the relevant procurement manager currently in post. please provide their:

   · Name

   · Job Title

   · Email Address

   Please provide contact details for the operational Manager at your Organisation primarily responsible for day to day management of these supplies & costs. This would usually be an Energy Manager, Estates/Facilities Manager, or similar. Please provide their:

   · Name

   · Job Title

   · Email Address

   Published: 23 November 2022

5. Costs of Hereford bypass and its cancellation

   Herefordshire Council has cancelled the Hereford Bypass. Please let me know the financial details

   (1) what was spent on this project up to the date of cancellation

   (2) what was spent after the cancellation date

   (3) what penalties (if any) were imposed by contracts/LEP/DfT as a result of cancellation

   (4) did the council reimburse any external funders with any amounts after the cancellation.

   Published: 22 November 2022

6. Security services

   Would you please be able to confirm if you currently use any contracted security services provider?

   If so, are you please able to tell me the name and when their associated contact is up for renewal?

   Would you also please be able to confirm how much you spent last year on security services and how much you were paying per hour for these services?

   Published: 21 November 2022

7. Date and rationale for decisions concerning planning application 160679

   With reference to Herefordshire Council's "Approval of Reserved Matters" Application No. 160679 dated 9 Mar 2016, relating to land east of Newport St, Cusop, an application for 26 dwellings (Outline DCSW2008/0118/O approved 31/07/13).

   Paragraph 2 states: Prior to the first occupation of any of the dwelling houses hereby permitted the footways for pedestrians along the site frontage and two pedestrian crossing points shall be fully implemented in accordance with the approved plans.

   Please tell me the date that the developer was released from this condition and the rationale for the decision, I can find no record of it on your website.

   Published: 21 November 2022

8. Unauthorised school absences in last 4 academic years

   Please can you provide the following:

   1. How many schoolchildren had unauthorised absences recorded in the past four academic years? (2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/2022)?

   - Please provide a breakdown per academic year/ All unauthorised absences not just those that resulted in enforcement action

   2. Please provide the number of each punishment given to the parent/carers for unauthorised absences for each academic year. If fines, please provide the number of fines given and the total sum.

   - Please provide a breakdown per academic year

   Clarification confirmed requires the number of fines (and the total sum)

   3. What is the highest number of days a single pupil has had unauthorised absences for in the 2021/22 year?

   Published: 21 November 2022

9. Disabled Childrens' Social Workers

   Please find attached a freedom of information request about social workers workforce for disabled children.

   Published: 18 November 2022

10. Vaping in schools and related exclusions

    Please can you provide the following information, for the academic years 2021-22, 2020-21 and 2019-20 (if applicable)

    * How many vape-related products have been confiscated from pupils at state-run schools in the local authority area?

    * How many school exclusions (temporary or permanent) listed vaping as a reason?

    * Is there a specific anti-vaping policy for schools in the local authority area?

    Published: 17 November 2022