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. Information for 0-25 year old's who have a learning disability, autism or both

    Please can you provide the following information, in each category I am asking for:

    1. numbers of individuals

    2. total weekly cost

    3. average weekly amount per person

    Please can you provide information tor 0-25 year old's who have a learning disability, autism or both. Please break down to the following financial years:

    2022/23 (actual)

    2023/24 (actual and forecast)

    2024/25 (forecast)

    1. how many people with a learning disability, autism or both (or their carers) receive Direct Payments from Herefordshire County Council for day services, carer breaks or to meet needs around community access and/or learning? how much is paid each week in total and what is the average weekly budget?

    a) 0-6 year olds

    b) 7 - 12 year olds

    c) 13 - 17 year olds

    d) 18 - 25 year olds

    2. how many people with a learning disability, autism or both (or their carers) receive Direct Payments from Herefordshire County Council for support work? how much is paid each week in total and what is the average weekly budget?

    a) 0-6 year olds

    b) 7 - 12 year olds

    c) 13 - 17 year olds

    d) 18 - 25 year olds

    For clarification for Support work I am referring to any part of a direct payment that is allocated to a resident to use to purchase care from one or more persons. This may be a personal assistant or a care agency.

    It is distinct from respite and day services which are usually place based.

    3. How much is paid weekly to people with a learning disability, autism or both (or their carers) under short breaks scheme, to how many people and what is the average weekly payment. Broken down to the following groups?

    a) 0-6 year olds

    b) 7 - 12 year olds

    c) 13 - 17 year olds

    d) 18 - 25 year olds

    4) What is the total budget for 0 - 25 year olds with a learning disability, autism or both in social care and education for:

    a) day opportunities

    b) respite (if possible broken down to overnight and day)

    c) support work

    5) How much have Herefordshire county council spent or forecast to be spent in contracted budgets and how much allocated to spend on Direct Payments for 0 -25 year old's with a learning disability, autism or both for the following?

    a) day opportunities

    b) respite (if possible broken down to overnight and day)

    c) support work

    Published: 30 January 2024

  2. Roads with 20 mph speed limits

    1. Please can you give me a list of the locations where there are 20 mph speed limits in place in the county?

    2. What evidence/information do you have that in general 20 mph speed limits reduce road accidents?

    3. What are the council's criteria/policy for putting a 20 mph speed limit on a road?

    Published: 29 January 2024

  3. Number of Children in Care

    Please disclose the most up-to-date data for the following for Herefordshire Council:

    Number of children in care excluding Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children (UASC)

    Number of UASC in care

    Total number of children in care

    Please state the relevant "as at" date.

    Published: 29 January 2024

  4. Bus Services Improvement Plan funding

    Under The Freedom of Information Act, please inform me as to how the Bus Services Improvement Plan 2023 funding is to be allocated and when. I see from the 1921 plan that frequency of services is a main priority for travellers. Bus services between County Towns and The City need to be restored to hourly with extra services for students. Bus services between villages, county towns and The City need to be improved to hourly in accordance with the Campaign for Rural England 2018 report, Every Village Every Hour.

    Published: 29 January 2024

  5. Playgrounds

    1. How many public children's playgrounds were managed and maintained by you at the start of each of the last five financial years (a) 1.4.19, (b) 1.4.20, (c) 1.4.21, (d) 1.4.22 and (e) 1.4.23?

    2. What was your spend in each of the last five financial years (18/19) (19/20) (20/21) (21/22) and (22/23) on the maintenance, or improvement or development of children's playgrounds in your local authority area? If possible please break this figure down into (i) revenue spend and (ii) capital expenditure.

    3. How many accidents have been reported to you where people have been injured in public children's playgrounds for which you have responsibility in each of the last five financial years (18/19) (19/20) (20/21) (21/22) and (22/23)?

    4. In relation to accidents in the last financial year (22/23) please provide me with a summary of how each accident took place and the extent of the injury.

    5. For each of the last five financial years (18/19) (19/20) (20/21) (21/22) and (22/23) please state how much compensation has been paid to people who were injured in accidents that took place in public children's playgrounds for which you have responsibility? NOTE: I am interested in when the compensation was paid not when the accident took place or when the claim was lodged.

    Published: 29 January 2024

  6. Complaints Handling

    1) Please provide information relating to how the Council handles complaints made against the Complaints Manager/Complaints Team so as to ensure there is no conflict of interest and the complainant's complaint is addressed fairly and impartially.

    2) How many complaints in the last financial or annual (whichever is easiest to report on) year were made against: a) the complaints manager b) the Council's handling of an existing complaint/complaints

    3) Please provide the Job Description and Person Specification for the post of Complaints Manager

    Published: 29 January 2024

  7. Seizures of illegal disposable e-cigarettes and liquids in the last three calendar years

    I would like to know, for each of the last three calendar years, how many seizures of illegal disposable e-cigarettes and liquids from shops in Herefordshire have been made by the council's trading standards officers, and what the total value of these were for each year.

    Published: 26 January 2024

  8. Number of referrals to Children's Services by police for children shoplifting Jan-Dec 2023

    -The number of referrals made to children's services by the police which have the keyword 'shoplifting' on their case file, between 1 January 2023 and 31 December 2023,

    - The number of referrals made to children's services by the police which have the keyword 'shoplifting' on their case file, between 1 January 2022 and 31 December 2022.

    Published: 26 January 2024

  9. List of buses, coaches, minibuses and ambulances 2024

    Many thanks for your help in previous years and I would be most grateful if you could kindly supply me with this year's current list of all buses, coaches, minibuses and ambulances operated by the Council (owned or leased). Could you please include the following information in respect of each vehicle?

    1. Registration number

    2. Fleet number allocated (if any)

    3. Date taken into stock by the authority

    4. Chassis make and model

    5. Number of seats (excluding driver)

    6. Body builder/converter (where known)

    7. Department/school/operator to which the vehicle is allocated

    Published: 26 January 2024

  10. ICT Hosting Services

    I wish to submit a request to the organisation around their hosting contract(s) with 3rd party providers.

    You may have received the same request in the past and this information sent has now expired and I require an update as soon as possible for the following.

    The type of contract I wish to see is below:

    1. Dedicated hosting- Managed environment

    2. Co-Location- hosting allows a business to still own their own server equipment; however, instead of storing it in their own data centre, they instead are able to store it in rented space in a colocation hosting centre.

    3. Cloud Hosting- Cloud hosting services

    <http://www.interoute.com/unified-ict/computing/cloud-services> provide hosting for websites on virtual servers, which pull their computing resources from extensive underlying networks of physical web servers.

    Not all of these will be applicable to the organisation.

    For the different types of hosting services, can you provide me with the following information:

    1. Type of hosting - Dedicated, Co-Location, Cloud Hosting, Other?

    2. Who is the supplier of the contract? If possible can you also provide me with the name of the vendor, if applicable?

    3. What is the annual contract value for each contract?

    4. What type of cloud environment?

    Private Cloud- a distinct and secure cloud based environment in which only the specified client can operate.

    Public Cloud - where cloud services are provided in a virtualized environment, constructed using pooled shared physical resources, and accessible over a public network such as the internet.

    Hybrid- integrated cloud service utilising both private and public clouds to perform distinct functions within the same organisation.

    5. What is the original start date of the contract agreement? If there are more than one contract please provide me with the start date for each contract.

    6. What is the actual expiry date of the contract agreement? If there are more than one contract please provide me with the expiry date for each contract.

    7. When will the organisation plan to review this contract? If there are more than one contract please provide me with the review date for each contract.

    8. What is the contract period in years? Please include whether the agreement has any extension periods?

    9. What services are provided under the contract? Please do not put hosting information such as web hosting, file storage, hosted application. The more information the better,

    10. Can you please provide me with the contract officer responsible for this contract? Complete contact details if possible name, title, contact email and number.

    Published: 24 January 2024