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. Charging infrastructure relating to electric vehicles

    I am writing to request information with regards to the council’s current and future plans for Charging Infrastructure relating to Electric Vehicles, including street cleaning, drain cleaning and waste and recycling collection vehicles at council depots.

    1. Can you please confirm if any of your council depots have the following charges in place at present from the below Charger List?

    Charger List:

    a. AC Charging up to a 22 KW AC charger with Type 2 connection?

    b. DC Charging up to 150 kw using a CCS2 Connector?

    c. AC Charging using up to 43 KW with Type 2 connection?

    d. DC charging up to 250 KW using CCS2 Connector?

    e. AC charging using 22 kw charger with Type 2 connection?

    f. 3 phase connection using either 32 amp or 63-amp power supply?

    g. AC charging using standard Type 2 connection with a 7.5 kw or 22kw power supply?

    h. 13-amp socket via an alternative cable

    1.i. Please can you provide the number of each you have access to.

    2. If not, can you confirm if there are plans in place to have any of these fitted?

    2.i. If so which number(s)?

    2.ii. If so, do you know when?

    Published: 1 August 2024

  2. Staff Training - Tier 1 & 2 Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training

    RE: Tier 1 & 2 Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training.

    The information I require is as follows:

    Q1. Local training offer to Providers of supported living, domiciliary care, and Extra Care within your organisation in relation to mandatory training requirements

    Q2. Do you provide or support providers to achieve mandatory training?

    Q3. Your quality requirement relating to supporting adults with learning disability and autism?

    Q4. What learning disability training requirement do you have for staff supporting older adults in the community/extra care housing who may have some degree of learning disability but are not commissioned through learning disability commissioning?

    Published: 1 August 2024

  3. Assaults on traffic wardens in the last financial year 2023/24

    In the last financial year (2023/24), how many incidents did your authority record where traffic wardens - otherwise known as Civil Enforcement Officers - were assaulted by members of the public while carrying out council duties?

    Please give a brief description of the circumstances of each recorded incident.

    Published: 31 July 2024

  4. Tech support hubs

    I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request information held by your council on its tech support hubs, which are also known as school local authority support units (SLSUs). These are teams that advise schools on tech matters, like which management information suppliers (MIS) they should switch to. Specifically, I would like to find out the following:

    • Has the local authority’s SLSU received payments from any school MIS suppliers for referring schools to that MIS supplier?

    • If so, how much did it receive in referral payments in calendar years 2022, 2023 and 2024 (as of the most recently recorded date)?

    • The name of the company(ies) the council received payments from?

    • Were these payments made on a case-by-case basis to the local authority by the firm or as part of an annual recurring referral fee?

    • If the payments were made as part of an annual recurring referral fee, it would be appreciated if you could tell me the year and month in which the council started receiving the payments

    • The number of schools that switched MIS suppliers to the one(s) offering referral payments in calendar years 2022, 2023, and 2024 (as of the most recently recorded date) If any of the information is already in the public domain, please can you direct me to it, with page references and URLs if necessary.

    Published: 29 July 2024

  5. EHCP's and Educational Psychologists

    I would like to request the following information under the Freedom of Information Act:

    1. For each quarter of each financial year since Q1 of 2018, the average waiting time for an EHCP to be issued in your council area.

    2. The average number of educational psychologists employed centrally by the council each financial year since April 2018.

    3. The total spend of centrally employed EPs each year.

    4. The average number of educational psychologists used by the council that are not centrally employed since April 2018. For example, locum or private EPs, but not exclusively. If you can state which route they were employed down, such as locum or private, I'd be grateful.

    5. The total spend on EPs not employed by the council each year since April 2018. Please can this information be contained in an excel spreadsheet.

    Published: 29 July 2024

  6. Childcare Development Officer Name/s

    I am looking for the name of your Childcare Development Officer, if you currently have someone in this position.

    Published: 29 July 2024

  7. Email Filters

    I would like to make the following Freedom of Information request.

    1) Does your IT system have a blocker which filters out certain words?

    2) Do emails containing these specified words automatically go into a spam folder?

    3) If the answer to Q1 is yes, are the following words (or derivatives) filtered: 'sex', 'breast'?

    4) If the answer to Q2 is yes, do you have a procedure for checking that communications relating to genuine concerns which include blocked words are not discarded, e.g. breastfeeding support and sexual health?

    Published: 25 July 2024

  8. Follow on from FOI2024/00984

    1. The gross pay bill for all council employees including temporary, agency and interim employees working directly for the council.

    2. The gross pay bill for the top 18 highest earning members of staff including temporary, agency or interim employees.

    3. The gross pay bill for the Chief Executive.

    4. The gross cost to the council for any interim or consultancy appointments externally provided by an executive or recruitment agency.

    6. The overall expenditure of the council excluding capital. 

    7. The overall income of the council excluding borrowing.

    8. In addition please could you point me at the report referred to in section 13 of the pay policy statement. Found here. It says it is published but I cannot find it.

     

    9. For the years requested (2019/20 to 2023/24) please provide the total cost for interim cover or temporary positions, for roles within the Senior Management Team (as described on your own website Management structure).

    Published: 25 July 2024

  9. Gender/Looked After Children

      1.  Information relating to the total number of Looked After Children in your care

     

      2.  Information relating to the number of Looked After Children in your care currently who have expressed that they may be a different gender to their sex or expressed a wish to change their gender. I would like to know:

     

      3.  Information relating to the number of Looked After Children in your care who have been referred to an NHS Service in the last 48 months due to their expression of gender dysphoria, gender incongruence, or the belief that their gender identity is different to their sex.

      

      4.  Documents relating to any training or resources you have used from an external provider (charity or commercial organisation) on gender identity, sex and sexuality, or transition in the last 48 months.

     

         *   If training has been provided, please provide details of the organisations who provided the training, the date, and the cost to the Local Authority.

     

      5.  A copy of all your policies relating to transgender or gender questioning Looked After Children.

     

      6.  Who, if anyone, would the Local Authority consult before allowing a Looked After Child to socially transition (i.e. identify as a different gender to their sex). Please name all relevant roles.

     

      7.  Whether you are a member of any Stonewall schemed including their “Diversity Champion” scheme

     

         *   Whether you have been a member of any Stonewall schemes in the last 48 months.

         *   Any application you have made to Stonewall to be a “Stonewall Diversity Champion” or to be included on Stonewall’s “Workplace Equality Index”.

     

    Please provide any relevant documents that set out this information

    Published: 25 July 2024

  10. Children in residential care/ Foster Care

    1.    For the year 2023, how many children were in residential care?

     

    2.    For the current year (2024) how many children are in residential care?

     

    3.    Can you list the cost for each child’s residential care per week?

     

    4.    For the years 2022, 2023 and 2024, how much per month was paid to Meadows Care per child? Can this be broken down into standard monthly charges and a breakdown of additional charges, eg. waking nights.

     

    5.    For the year 2024, how much per week / month was paid to 3belle ami health? Can this be broken down into the standard charge and a breakdown of additional charges, eg. waking nights.

     

    6.    Can you state how much Herefordshire council spent during the last 10 years on EACH of the following, broken down by year:

     

    1. Non-repayable grants to Foster Parents

     

    a. towards the purchase of bigger cars; if more than one family received a grant please elaborate.

     

    b. towards the building of house extensions or the purchase of bigger houses; if more than one family received a grant please elaborate.

     

    2. If recipients later cease fostering, are grants repayable, in full or in part - or would they be if this situation hasn't yet arisen?

     

    3. Non-repayable grants to Adoptive Parents

     

    a. towards the purchase of bigger cars; if more than one family received a grant please elaborate.

     

    b. towards the building of house extensions or the purchase of bigger houses; if more than one family received a grant please elaborate.

     

    4. If after a grant has been received and adopted children are returned to Local Authority care or are removed, are grants repayable, in full or in part.

     

    Published: 25 July 2024