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. Older Persons Care Fees

    Q1) Please provide your 2023 to 2024 weekly base fee rates for the following care types along with a copy of your fee uplift letter sent to care providers at the time the uplift was applied:

    1. Nursing (Excl. FNC)

    2. Nursing with Dementia (Excl. FNC)

    3. Residential (without nursing)

    4. Residential (without nursing) with Dementia

    Note: If you do not operate a base fee, please provide the fee schedule you use (i.e. a banding or range of fees). If no fee schedule is used, please provide the average fee proposed during this period for each care type. Where you have not yet reported a 2023-2024 fee uplift, please outline your timeline and process for doing so.

    Q2) Please provide your average weekly fee rate (being the average weekly fee paid during the period 1st April 2022 to March 31st 2023 ) for the following care types:

    1. Nursing (Excl. FNC)

    2. Nursing with Dementia (Excl. FNC)

    3. Residential (without nursing)

    4. Residential (without nursing) with Dementia

    Note: if you are unable to split Dementia from care without Dementia, please provide a blended Residential and a blended Nursing rate. This calculation should be the same as the MSIF report submitted in May 2023.

    Q3) Please provide your provisional average weekly fee rate (calculated consistently with the rate in the question above) for the period 2023-2024 for the following care types:

    1. Nursing (Excl. FNC)

    2. Nursing with Dementia (Excl. FNC)

    3. Residential (without nursing)

    4. Residential (without nursing) with Dementia

    Note: if you are unable to split Dementia from care without Dementia, please provide a blended Residential and a blended Nursing rate. This calculation should be the same as the MSIF report submitted in May 2023.

    Q4) Please confirm if your authority requires or provisions for care providers to pay care staff a rate higher than the National Living Wage and outline the support on offer to do so.

    Q6) Based on your local authority calculation of the Fair Cost of Care submitted in March 2023 to the DHSC, please confirm the rates your authority deems applicable for the period 2023 to 2024 for:

    1. Nursing (Excl. FNC)

    2. Nursing Enhanced (Excl. FNC)

    3. Residential (without nursing)

    4. Residential Enhanced with Dementia

    Q7) Please share a copy of the Market Sustainability Improvement Fund Initial Metric Reporting Template (May 2023) submitted to the DHSC as stated in the following guidance: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/market-sustainability-and-improvement-fund-2023-to-2024#full-publication-update-history

    Q8) For the period 1st April 2022 to 31st March 2023, please provide the number of individual residents, where their contracts for the provision of Older Person Services for both residential care and nursing care were either terminated by the care provider, handed back by the care provider, or were renegotiated due to the threat or notice of termination/handing back was made by the care provider. You should provide the number of residents this applies to and the number of care providers.

    Published: 12 June 2023

  2. T Level industry placements in the 2020/21 and 2021/22 academic years

    Please provide details of the number of T Level industry placements that have been provided in the following academic years (August-July):

    1. 2020/21 2. 2021/22 Please also provide the number of T Level industry placements that have been

    a) provided and b) are planned to be provided in the academic year 2022/23.

    For each year, please provide details of a) the T Level course/s the placements have been offered for (e.g. T Level in digital support services) and

    b) the team/s at Herefordshire Council the placements were offered in. Please present this information in an Excel spreadsheet.

    Published: 12 June 2023

  3. Widemarsh Street comparative accident data

    Re Widemarsh Street comparative accident data

    As per the other part of my request please could you provide comparative data for other pedestrianised streets in Hereford which have similar numbers of people using them.

    Published: 9 June 2023

  4. Elderly Person Care Home Fees 2023/24

    Please would you be able to provide the following information in respect of placements made by the local authority of elderly persons funded (in whole or part) by yourselves. The information should be readily available from the relevant department with responsibility for social care. It goes without saying that sensitive information such as people's names/identity is not being requested.

    For persons benefitting from local authority funding, what is the standard fee to be paid by the council for elderly persons placed within independent sector care homes during the financial year 2023/2024 for the following categories of care?

    1. Elderly Residential Care

    2. Elderly Dementia Residential Care

    3. Elderly Nursing Care*

    4. Elderly Dementia Nursing Care*

    *Please state fee exclusive of the NHS Funded Nursing Care payment (FNC) for 3 and 4.

    Published: 8 June 2023

  5. ITSM Platform - Services information

    1. What IT Service management (ITSM) platform are you currently using? (e.g. ServiceNow, BMC, Freshworks, 4ME, Hornbill, ManageEngine, etc) Please provide the platform name.

    2. When is your current ITSM platform contract due for renewal? Please provide month/year.

    3. Who (if there is one) is your current supplier of professional and managed services for your ITSM platform?

    4. How many user licences do you have for your ITSM platform?

    5. Who is the principal contact for IT Services within your organisation? i.e. Director of IT or Head of Service Delivery. Please provide Linkedin or available contact details (where appropriate).

    Published: 8 June 2023

  6. Water abstractions

    The Environment Agency have requested one further search on water abstraction, this time centered around the following National Grid Reference: NGR SO 57609 59103

    Published: 7 June 2023

  7. Compensation for property damage and personal injury caused by pot holes 2022/2023

    1. In the last financial year (2022/23)

    (a) how much money has the council paid out in compensation for property damage and personal injury caused by potholes (please include legal expenses), and

    (b) how many individual claims did this represent?

    2. Please tell me the value of the biggest claim settled in 2022/23, and the location of the pothole that caused the incident. Please provide a brief description of the incident, and if possible, state how much the cost of the claim amounted to compensation and how much to legal expenses.

    Published: 7 June 2023

  8. How much money, if any has been recovered using bailiffs in 2021, 2022 ,2023

    I would like to know how much money, if any has been recovered using bailiffs (debt collection agencies) in 2021, 2022 and 2023, broken down to the amount by year, for the following debts:

    Council Tax arrears

    Parking penalty charges

    Housing Benefit over payments

    I would also like to see the policy documents regarding the use of bailiffs and the details of any complaints lodged against the use of bailiffs by the council.

    Published: 7 June 2023

  9. Care Fees - Adults

    In accordance with the FOI act, please can you answer the following question below:

    · What was the lowest rate (£ per week) you paid for placing a person in your area for 2022/23 and 2023/24.

    Please disregard Funding Nursing Care (FNC) from these calculations.

    Published: 7 June 2023

  10. 16+ Looked after Children Placement Costs and Data Information 2022/23

    I am writing to request information about the numbers and cost of placements for 16 and 17 year old looked after children in your local authority. Can you please answer the following questions:

    1) How many 16 and 17 year old looked after children is your local authority responsible for currently?

    2) How many 16 and 17 year old looked after children in your local authority are currently placed out of area?

    3) How many 16 and 17 year old looked after children were accommodated in spot purchased placements (off framework/contracted arrangements) in the 22/23 financial year?

    4) What was the cost of placements/supported accommodation for 16 and 17 year olds per week for the 22/23 financial year?

    a) lowest cost

    b) highest cost

    c) average cost

    5) Are there sufficient placements in your local authority area for 16 and 17 year old looked after children who have a high level of complex needs?

    Published: 7 June 2023