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. Social housing that your Council own/manage are currently void/vacant

    1. How many units of social housing that your Council own/manage are currently void/vacant;

    A. What % of your social housing portfolio does this equate to;

    B. Over what period are these voids (i.e. when did the first property become void and when was the most recent);

    C. What are the reasons for these voids; and

    D. When do you expect these properties to be brought back into use.

    2. How many units of private housing that your Council own/manage are currently void/vacant;

    A. What % of your private housing portfolio does this equate to;

    B. Over what period are these voids (i.e. when did the first property become void and when was the most recent);

    C. What are the reasons for these voids; and

    D. When do you expect these properties to be brought back into use.

    Published: 3 May 2024

  2. Adult Social Care commissioning

    Please can you answer the following questions regarding Adult Social Care in Herefordshire?

    The lowest and highest (based on the standard daytime week-day rate) charge rates per hour of domiciliary care charged to the local authority for Adult Social Care commissioned through private domiciliary care providers. Please provide data from the most recently available financial year.

    The lowest and highest (based on the standard hourly rate) charge rates per hour of supported living charged to the local authority for Adult Social Care commissioned through private supported living providers. Please provide data from the most recently available financial year.

    When you anticipate re-tendering for:

    Homecare services for Adult Social Care

    Supported Living services for Adults

    Extra Care services for Adults

    Learning Disability services

    Mental Health support services

    The names of the current Domiciliary Care Providers commissioned in your authority to deliver Adult Social Care.

    The names of the current Supported Living Providers commissioned in your authority to deliver Adult Social Care.

    The contact name, email address and contact number of the person responsible for commissioning domiciliary care services in your authority.

    The contact name, email address and contact number of the person responsible for commissioning supported living services in your authority.

    Is the local authority currently working with health partners to commission any of the above care services, and if so, who are they?

    The authority's current market positioning statement for Adult Social Care.

    Published: 3 May 2024

  3. Referrals submitted using the Multi Agency Referral Form system ...

    With reference to Freedom of Information Act 2000 I would like to request information relating to Herefordshire Council Multi Agency Referral Hub.

    1. I would like to know the number of individual referrals submitted using the Multi Agency Referral Form system (MARF).

    2. I would like to know the number that was found to be groundless or no further action required (NFA/Not Progressed).

    I would like these numbers for the calendar year or 12 month recording period that would cover in full, 2022, 2023, & 2024 to date.

    Published: 2 May 2024

  4. Outdoor-based therapeutic support

    Did your Authority/ Trust/ Council/ organisation:

    1.a.) Deliver itself any specialist therapeutic interventions to CYPP&F using outdoor therapeutic provisions?

    1.b.) Commission another person, body, or organisation to deliver any specialist therapeutic interventions to CYPP&F using outdoor therapeutic provisions?

    2.a.) Deliver itself any specialist therapeutic residential interventions (these are for durations longer than short breaks) for Children We Care For (CWCF) / Looked After Children (LAC) using outdoor therapeutic provisions?

    2.b.) Commission another person, body or organisation to deliver any specialist therapeutic residential interventions (these are for durations longer than short breaks) for CWCF/LAC using outdoor therapeutic provisions?

    Definitions of terms:

    CYPP&F - children, young people, parents, or families. This can be for services targeted at any of these groups.

    Outdoor Therapy provisions covers interventions such as: outdoor learning, adventure therapy, wilderness therapy, nature-based etc…

    Please complete the attached response table.

    Published: 2 May 2024

  5. Fee uplift information (2024 to 2025) sent to care providers

    Q1) Please provide a copy of your 2024 to 2025 fee uplift letter that was sent to care providers. If you have not reported a 2024-25 fee uplift, please outline your timeline and process for doing so.

    Note: Please do not embed the document in your response. Please share the letter as an attachment.

    Q2) Please confirm the date when the local authority/Cabinet agreed or made the decision to proceed with the fee uplift for care providers for the 2024/25 financial year.

    Q3) Please confirm the date this decision on the fee uplift for the 2024/25 financial year was officially communicated to the providers.

    Q4) Please provide your 2024 to 2025 weekly base* fee rates 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 do not operate a base fee, please provide the fee schedule you use (i.e. a banding or range of fees, or guide prices). If no fee schedule is used, please provide the average fee proposed during this period for each care type.

    Q5) Please provide your average weekly fee rate (being the average weekly fee paid during the period 1st April 2023 to March 31st 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 Market Sustainability and Improvement Fund reporting submitted in May 2023.

    Q6) Please provide your provisional average weekly fee rate (calculated consistently with the rate in the question above) for the period 2024-2025 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 Market Sustainability and Improvement Fund reporting submitted in May 2023.

    Q7) Please confirm if your authority requires or provisions for care providers to pay care staff a rate higher than the National Living Wage, and when this policy was implemented.

    Q8) For the period 1st April 2023 to 31st March 2024, 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: 1 May 2024

  6. Pest infestations in commercial premises for the last 3 years

    The total number of visits made by council staff to deal with pest infestations in commercial premises each year in the last three years, broken down by type of infestation.

    Please also state how the rate you charge for such visits - is it an based on staff time, on size of infested premises, on the kind of infestation, or some combination of these?

    Published: 29 April 2024

  7. Sewage capacity

    I wish to make a request under the EIR for the following information:

    1. During the production of the draft Local Plan what information was requested from Sewage Companies with regard to capacity of their network in each of the settlements identified for housing under the settlement hierarchy?

    2. Why do the environmental restrictions included in the settlement hierarchy not reference the capacity of the sewage network in these areas?

    3. What legal advice has the Council received in relation to considering sewage infrastructure and its suitability / capacity as part of the settlement hierarchy and copies of that advice where the EIR allows.

    4. Any information, communication, legal advice or similar received by or sent by the Council from or to Welsh Water or Severn Trent in relation to the sewage systems in the villages of Luston, Yarpole, Kingsland or Orleton.

    Published: 29 April 2024

  8. Road Repair - Backbury ward

    I would like all the information available on the outstanding highways defects in Backbury ward, in an excel sheet, for the period from 1/1/20 to current. I'd like to know the location of the defect, date of inspection, what category has been assigned to the defect, and a likely date of repair if it has been programmed. If no date of repair has been set, I'd like to know why.

    Published: 29 April 2024

  9. MASH Referrals, Missed Education and Taxi Licensing

    1) How many children were spoken to IN PERSON by MASH social worker/s as part of the initial screening process of contacts and referrals received between October 2023 and February 2024. How many of these children were under 13?

    ii ) Number of children spoken to IN PERSON by MASH screening social workers to be broken down into referral outcome threshold level. How many of these children were under 13?

    iii) Number of children under 13 spoken to by MASH screening Social Workers as part of initial screening and referral process? How many of those children were to spoken to IN PERSON/ telephone or other format.

    2) Between September 2022 and April 2024 what is the number of children of statutory education age attending primary and secondary schools in the county of Herefordshire have had unauthorised absences that equated to more than 10 consecutive sessions or 5 school days. This number should be broken down into each school.

    3) Between September 2022 and April 2024 what is the number of children in primary school and secondary schools across Herefordshire whose parents have received a fine or Penalty Charge notices . Please provide this data broken down into each schools.

    4) Between September 2022 and April 2024 what number of the penalty charge notices were issued to parents have been paid in full. Please provide this information broken down into each school or education establishment.

    5) What is the annual operating cost of Taxi licensing. Please provide this for April 2020- April 2021, April 2022-2023 and April 2023-2024.

    Published: 29 April 2024

  10. Refund eligibility under Planning Guarantee Legislation

    I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act in relation to your authority's policies and practices in providing refunds under the planning guarantee legislation (Regulation 9A of the Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications, Deemed Applications, Requests and Site Visits) (England) Regulations 2012) and more recent iterations.

    1.

    Please detail how the authority determine an applicant's eligibility for a refund in accordance with the legislation.

    2.

    Can you provide any official documentation, policies, or guidelines that outline the process and criteria for refund eligibility under the planning guarantee legislation? This would include any procedural steps that applicants must follow to initiate a refund request.

    If the authority does not have any official documentation, policies or guidelines and has not sought to create this since the inception of the legislation can you provide an explanation why?

    3.

    Are there circumstances, such as the statute of limitations, under which refunds would not be provided? If so, what are these circumstances? Any supporting written advice from your legal department would be of interest.

    4.

    Has your authority been proactive in informing applicant's that they are due a refund of their planning application fees paid when they become eligible?

    If the answer to 4 is no, could you explain the rationale behind this approach?

    5.

    Has your authority been proactive in refunding applicant's fees when they become eligible?

    a)

    If the answer to 5 is no, could you explain the rationale behind this approach?

    b)

    If refunds are not proactively made, can you advise what happens to the funds from the unclaimed refunds, since the legislation was implemented.

    c)

    Can you advise how much has the authority 'earned'/received in funds for planning applications from applicants that was due to be returned but has not been.

    6.

    Please provide the contact information for submitting refund requests i.e. the relevant person/team, contact telephone number and contact email address.

    7.

    Please provide the contact information for the authority's Monitoring Officer, as their oversight may be relevant to my inquiries.

    Published: 29 April 2024