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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1,821 disclosures
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I am writing to request information related to the collection of council tax debts via the use of Liability Orders (or Summary Warrants if in Scotland) and related enforcement action. Under the above-mentioned Act I would like you to provide me with the following information please:
For each of the financial years;
2020/2021
2021/2022
Q1. How many Court Summons (or Summary Warrants if in Scotland) did your organisation issue for debts relating to Council Tax payments?
Q2. *Not applicable to Scotland. How many Liability Orders did your organisation successfully obtain for debts relating to Council Tax payments?
Q3. How much total revenue did your organization collect as a result of Bailiffs (or Sheriffs if in Scotland) enforcement action for debts relating to Council Tax payments?
Published: 24 June 2022
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Please complete the attached form.
Published: 23 June 2022
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Q1. Has the council used IMPOWER consultancy since 2015? IMPOWER may have been used in adult care, public health, children's care/children's services, education (including SEND), climate change, leadership teams or supporting finance directors.
Q2. If the answer to question 1 is 'yes', what work did IMPOWER do (or what advice did IMPOWER provide) and when?
Q3. Please provide details of any programmes or projects that IMPOWER worked/advised on.
Question 3 covers, but is not limited to, any public service reform/transformation programmes that IMPOWER advised on, designed or helped implement, and any demand management initiatives IMPOWER advised on, designed or helped implement.
Published: 23 June 2022
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This FOI request is based around SIMS/MIS for schools.
Q1. How many schools are local authority maintained schools in the local authority area?
Q2. What is the split between primary and secondary?
a. Primary
b. Secondary
Q3. How many of these schools are using the SIMS (Supplier Information Management System) service, please split?
a. Primary
b. Secondary
Q4. Does the authority have a dedicated support team for SIMS schools? If so, how many FTE are in the team?
Q5. Who is the person in the authority responsible for the SIMS support in schools?
Q6. If this service is not provided directly by the local authority, does another organisation provide this to the local authority?
Q7. If the authority does use a 3rd party supplier, please can you provide the following;
a. Supplier name
b. Contract start date
c. Contract end date
d. Total Contract Value
e. Does this cover licences and support to schools or just licences?
Q8. Is the funding for MIS (licences / support / both) devolved to schools or does local authority contract directly with the MIS supplier and mandates this to maintained schools?
Q9. Do you support any other MIS systems, if so, which MIS systems do you support?
Published: 23 June 2022
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Q1. How many electric vehicle charging points have been installed in the local authority to date?
Q2. How many electric vehicle charging points does the authority plan to install in the next 12 months?
Q3. How much does the council plan to spend on installing electric vehicle charging points in 2022/2023 (as GBP and as a percentage of overall budget)
Published: 23 June 2022
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Q1. How many children are currently known as being electively home educated in the local authority?
Q2. Of those children, how many have:
a. no known Special educational needs and disabilities (SEND)?
b. Special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) with and without EHCPs?
Q3. How many pupils were deregistered from school to be electively home educated in the local authority in:
a. July 2021
b. July 2020
c. July 2019
d. July 2018
e. July 2017
Q4. How many children with no known Special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) were deregistered from school to be electively home educated in the local authority in:
a. July 2021
b. July 2020
c. July 2019
d. July 2018
e. July 2017
Q5. How many children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) with and without EHCPs were deregistered from school to be electively home educated in the local authority in:
a. July 2021
b. July 2020
c. July 2019
d. July 2018
e. July 2017
Q6. How many children were deregistered from special schools to be electively home educated in the local authority in:
a. July 2021
b. July 2020
c. July 2019
d. July 2018
e. July 2017
Q7. How many children under mental health services, such as CAMHS, were deregistered from school to be electively home educated in the local authority in:
a. July 2021
b. July 2020
c. July 2019
d. July 2018
e. July 2017
Published: 22 June 2022
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FOI REQUEST this is a separate request for the attention of the teams listed below
This is a new request for new information only. It is not a repeated request. Please could you kindly send me any information you may hold relating to persons who are/were known to the Council via any of the following teams and who have died with:
- no known next of kin (defined as blood relatives) OR
- where you have been unable to engage with or locate any KNOWN next of kin,
Please provide details of cases that have occurred or come to your attention since 15/4/2022 to the day of your reply or as close as possible.
The name of the team responsible varies but exists within all County Councils, London Boroughs, Unitary & Metropolitan District Councils. Team names:
Deputyship
Appointeeship
Adult social care
Client Finance Team
Protection of Property
Financial Assessment
Other team name whereby Council official(s) were charged with handling the financial affairs of the (now deceased) person.
Please provide as much of the following information as you can:
1. full names of deceased persons
2. dates of death
3. marital status
4. maiden surnames of married or widowed females
5. dates of birth or ages at death
6. last known addresses
7. estimated value of estates
8. date(s) when the information was passed (or information that is about to be or likely to be passed) to the Government Legal Department (formerly Treasury Solicitor) or the Duchy of Lancaster or Cornwall or any other 3rd party, or, confirmation that this will not be happening and the reason why.
Published: 20 June 2022
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I believe that the Council made specific provision to maintain Wye View Lane and the Boats on the Doward.
I request:
1. Details of the Magistrates Court decision to which Herefordshire Council was party mandating that the Council was responsible for maintaining and metalling the Roads in the long term.
2. Details of any further legal appeal the Council may have made against this Magistrates Court Decision.
3. Any internal Council Documents relating to these Court cases and the final position adopted by the Council.
Published: 17 June 2022
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I would like to know the number of enforcement actions you have served over shipping containers not having proper planning permission. I would like this information broken down for the years (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022), the outcome of enforcement action and where the container was located (for example on green belt land, in a back garden of a dwelling, on a brownfield site).
Published: 17 June 2022
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Amount (£) paid in compensation in relation to Japanese Knotweed growth during each of these calendar years: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022.
Number of complaints brought against the council in relation to Japanese Knotweed growth during each of the above-mentioned calendar years.
Published: 16 June 2022