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. Childcare provider payments, capital grants and childcare sufficiency assessments

    Provider payments:

     

    1. What is the current timeframe for financial year 2024/25 on which you pay childcare providers for the delivery of funded early education and childcare places? (ie. Do you currently pay providers monthly, termly, offer a choice or use a different timeframe?

     

    • Monthly

    • Termly

    • Mix/Provider choice

    • Other approach

     

    2. If you pay termly do you split the funding, please provide details of how this is done? (eg 75% at the start of term and 25% towards the end?)

     

    3. If you pay termly, when in the term do you make the first payment to providers?

     

    Within the first two weeks

    Within weeks 2-4

    Within weeks 4-6

    After week 6

     

    4. If you pay monthly, when in the month do you make the payment to providers?

    Week 1

    Week 2

    Week 3

    Week 4

     

    5. Have you consulted with providers in the last two years on how you make payments to them for the delivery of funded early education and childcare places?

    Yes

    No

    Currently running or planning consultation

     

    Capital Grants:

    The government announced £100m of capital support through the Childcare Expansion Capital Grant in autumn 2023. The fund was to support the provision of new places to support the expansion of:

    • 30-hours entitlement places for children aged 9-months to 3-year-olds

    • wraparound provision for primary school aged children

     

    6. How much (in £) was your local authority’s allocation from central government under the Childcare Expansion Capital Grant scheme?

    7. How much (in £) of your local authority’s allocation under the Childcare Expansion Capital Grant scheme has been distributed to any eligible recipients?

    8. How much (in £) of your local authority’s allocation under the Childcare Expansion Capital Grant scheme has been distributed to:

    a. private, voluntary or independent providers in the early years sector

    b. School based settings

    c. Local authority infrastructure projects

     

    9. Please provide a % breakdown of the distributed funds under the Childcare Expansion Capital Grant has been spent between:

    a. Children taking up an early years place through the expanded 30-hours entitlement for qualifying working parents

    b. Increasing the supply of wraparound childcare for primary-school aged children.

    Childcare Sufficiency Assessments:

    10. Have you completed a Childcare Sufficiency Assessments in the last two years? Please provide a copy of this CSA report.

     

    Published: 16 July 2024

  2. Current contract covering reprographics/print arrangements

    I would be grateful if you would provide details of your current contract covering reprographics/print arrangements under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 as follows:

     

    1.      Number of MFDs (Multi-functional devices) & photocopiers at Herefordshire Council.

     

    2.      Name of incumbent.

             (Your contracts register says Ricoh).

    3.      Start/end date of contract (if expired, WHEN do you expect to revisit the marketplace).

             (Your contracts register says 30/06/24)

     

    4.      Details of any extension options.   

             (Your contracts register says none)

     

    5.      What framework / route to market used.

     

    6.      Number of regular/desktop printers (in addition to above).

     

    7.      Is there a support contract on above? If yes, please state start/end date.

    8.      Does the Council have a Print Room?

    9.      If yes, name of supplier, number of devices and start/end date of contract, also details of any extension options.

    10.   Total annual print/copy volumes including, if applicable, your Print Room, for

     

    (a)  mono

     

    (b) colour

    11.   What Print software does the Council run?

     

    12.   Your total annual spend on print.

    13.   Who is responsible for this contract at the Council?

    Published: 15 July 2024

  3. uncollected Council Tax

    I am writing this request in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act. I’d be grateful if you could provide the following information:

    1. For the years 2019-2020, 2021-22, 2022-23 and 2023-24, please provide the number of individual cases of uncollected tax (full or partial amounts) Council Tax and the total amount in sterling of uncollected Council Tax in each of those years.

    2. A breakdown into postcode area (or former borough boundary area if easier) of all uncollected (full or partial amounts) Council Tax cases in each of the years 2019-2020, 2021-22, 2022-23 and 2023-24.

    3. For each of the years set out above, the number of individual Council Tax debtor cases which were successfully concluded and taxes concluded and taxes collected (either in the financial of the same year or subsequently).

    4. For each of the years set about above, the number of individual Council Tax debtor cases which have remained pending/ongoing without successful conclusion For each of the years above, the number of individual Council Tax debtor cases which have been written off by the authority and taxes not collected

    Published: 11 July 2024

  4. ASDA Stores Limited - RIDDOR

    Under the Freedom of Information Act, and with relation to the below site or sites operated by Asda Stores Limited (or other companies within the Asda group), please can you provide me with details of:

    1) The number of RIDDOR reports that have been made regarding incidents at each site, broken down by the financial years 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, and 2023/24;

    2) The cause of each such incident, broken down by broad heading, where this information is held;

    3) Copies of any health and safety inspection reports held by the authority that arose from inspections of the below site or sites during the same period;

    4) Copies of any reports arising from health and safety investigations held by the authority that took place in response to incidents at the below site or sites during the same period; and 5) Details of complaints made about the site or sites by members of the public during the same period, including the numbers and reasons for such complaints, and copies of the complaints where they are held in a reasonably accessible and anonymised format.

    The site or sites in question are: ASDA - HEREFORD SUPERCENTRE 4598 BELMONT ROAD, HEREFORD, HR2 7JE

    CLARIFICATION Health and safety issues: 1. Slips, trips, wet floor, uneven floor 2. Products falling on customers 3. Pallets falling on customers 4. Home shopping trolleys or pallets colliding with customers 5. Rodent/Animal bites to customers 6. Products or shelving causing cuts, bruises, broken bones, fractures 7. Pallets in aisle's causing injury to customers/falling over products, pallets left out 8. Any incident a member of the public has reported about the store/stores that is a health and safety issue

    Published: 11 July 2024

  5. Dog breeding licenses from 2017 - 2021

    Please provide answers (to the following 4 questions) in any format that is easiest for you.

     

    If you do not record this information, please state entry as ‘N/A’. If you record this information, and the answer is zero, please state ‘0’.

     

    Questions regarding all dog breeding licenses, per year from 2017 - 2021:

     

    1.    Total number of licensed dog breeding establishments within the local authority, per year from 2017 – 2021.

     

    2.    Total number of licensed dog breeding establishments with quarantine/isolation facilities, per year from 2017 – 2021.

     

    Questions regarding each dog breeding licensed establishment, for 2021 only:

     

    3.    The number, breed and age of all breeding bitches, in each dog breeding licensed establishment (in 2021).

     

    4.    Breed(s) of male stud(s)/father(s), if different to mother’s breed (in 2021).

     

             

    Published: 8 July 2024

  6. Section 106 Planning Obligations

    I would like to request the number of a) breaches and b) re-negotiations of Section 106 planning obligations (as laid out in the Town and Country Planning Act 1990) in this local authority from the beginning of 2010 to the present day, or as recent as the data goes. This can be in either a yearly or quarterly format.

    * I would like also data on how many of these a) breaches and b) renegotiations referred to affordable housing obligations in the same time period.

    * I would also like data on how many enforcements of planning obligations this local authority carried out in the same time period.

    Published: 5 July 2024

  7. Market Sustainability and Improvement Fund 2024 to 2025

    FOI Request:

    1. Please provide a copy of the document or documents submitted to the DHSC as outlined in condition 3 of the Market Sustainability and Improvement Fund 2024 to 2025 Guidance as per the below: “Condition 3: As set out in the grant determination, the initial 2024 to 2025 report must be submitted by 11:59pm on 22 May 2024 and must include:

    • confirmation that the local authority has allocated its share of the grant in full to adult social care, in line with condition 1

    • confirmation that the local authority has used its share of the £162 million Fair Cost of Care component of the fund to maintain fee uplifts originally made as part of the 2022 to 2023 Market Sustainability and Fair Cost of Care Fund

    • confirmation of which of the 3 target areas the local authority will seek further improvements in (local authorities must select at least one), alongside planned spend on each

    • reporting against all the required metrics set out in the ‘Activities and metrics’ section of this guidance* * The initial 2024 to 2025 report (May 2024) must include the following metrics:

    • final average external provider local authority fee rate in 2023 to 2024

    • average provisional external provider local authority fee rate in 2024 to 2025

    • free text to provide additional context on the report if required”

    Published: 5 July 2024

  8. Home Working Policy, and Senior Management stats for March to May 2024

    RE: Work from home WI/2279

    CLARIFICATION: We require the 20 in your Senior Management Team please from your website.

    1. Please provide any policy for council staff on home working.

    2. Please provide the total number of days, in the past 3 months (march to may), in which the senior management (20 highest earning) attended a meeting in Herefordshire County in person on a given day. For example, if at least one in-person meeting was attended in a day, this is recorded as one day.

    3. Provide the number of days annual leave or other absence in the same period for all of the same staff.

    4. Please provide the total cost claimed for travel or mileage for these people in the past 2 years split by financial years, 2022/23 and 2023/24.

    5. For each of the financial years 2019/20 to 2023/24 the number of appointments into these top 18 roles following the exit of the previous holder of the position (even where job titles change) including interim and agency roles.

    Published: 4 July 2024

  9. Administration staff responsible for HMO licensing

    I am contacting you to request some information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. To help you with this request I will outline my query as specifically as possible:-

    1. How many administration staff members within the authority are responsible for HMO licensing in the 3 schemes - Mandatory, Selective and Additional licensing?

    2. How many days per week are spent on admin for the above three licensing schemes?

    I am not requesting any personal details of individual staff, just the number of admin staff that have responsibilities in these particular HMO licensing schemes.

    Published: 3 July 2024

  10. Children who went missing from children’s residential care

    1) The number of children who went missing from children’s residential care ran by the local authority in 2021, 2022 and 2023. Can the data be categorised in calendar years please.

    2) The number of those children given in the response to question 1) who were deemed at risk of criminal exploitation in 2021, 2022 and 2023. Can the data be categorised in calendar years please.

    3) The youngest age of a child who went missing from residential care ran by the local authority in 2023, how long they were missing and their gender.

    4) The longest amount of time a child was missing from residential care ran by the local authority in 2023, their age and gender.

    Published: 3 July 2024