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. Total expenditure in the last financial year for taxi's taking children to school

    1. Herefordshire Council's total expenditure for the last financial year for the provision of taxi services to take pupils to school.

    2. The total cost of providing taxi services because no suitable bus service was available.

    Published: 26 October 2023

  2. Home Education

    1. The number of home educated children in your local authority area as at school census date (5th October 2023) or, if not available, the nearest date to that day.

    Please note that by 'home educated' I refer to children not registered in a school, not receiving education provided by the local authority, but receiving education provided by parents or guardians.

    For this purpose, if your local authority moves home educated children to its 'children missing education' list prior to successful enforcement of a School Attendance Order, please also include those children in the data.

    2. Please state whether or not your local authority has experienced a 'spike' (unusually high additional number) of removals from the roll from 5th October 2023 to 20th October 2023 and if yes, please indicate the number of additional removals from roll in that period.

    Published: 25 October 2023

  3. Why do children in residential care go missing, and where do they go whilst missing?

    I write to request any information that you have on this topic, which may include internal reports or evaluations of the following:

    -          Innovative practices for dealing with missing children from residential care

    -          Strategies used to target resources to missing children from residential care

    - Spatial behaviour of children who go missing from residential care (i.e., where they go whilst missing)

    -          Experiences and perceptions of partnership working with children's residential care homes and how this can be (or has been) improved

    -           Facilitators and barriers to identifying the reasons why children go missing from residential care

    - Prevention activities in relation to children who go missing from residential care

    - The effectiveness of Return Home Interviews and The Philomena Protocol with children who go missing from residential care in identifying the reasons why they go missing, and where they go whilst missing

    Published: 25 October 2023

  4. Closed wells and boreholes due to groundwater contamination from Sutton Walls

    1. Please release documentation showing full number of wells which have been ordered by Hereford Council to be closed as a result of the known significant groundwater contamination from Sutton Walls.

    (Please note there is reliable report that this may extend to domestic properties further afield than adjacent to the site.)

    2. Please confirm whether borehole closure has been ordered for any farm within 2 mile radius of the toxic waste site.

    Published: 24 October 2023

  5. Planning appeal cost awards between 1 April 2018 and 31 March 2023

    Please can you provide the following information about each planning appeal cost award or partial cost award made against your council (including information for any now-defunct councils that have been merged into your council) by planning inspectors between 1 April 2018 and 31 March 2023:

    - Date of cost award decision

    - Date of appeal decision letter (if different to date of costs award decision)

    - Has the amount of the cost award been determined (yes/no)?

    - Amount of sum negotiated between the applicant and council for cost award (£)

    - Was the decision that was the subject of the appeal made against officer recommendation (£)?

    - PINS case reference number

    Please could you also provide the following information about each planning appeal cost award or partial cost award made against an applicant in your council's favour by planning inspectors between 1 April 2018 and 31 March 2023 (please include information for any now-defunct councils that have been merged into your council):

    - Date of cost award decision

    - Date of appeal decision letter (if different to date of costs award decision)

    - Has the amount of the cost award been determined (yes/no)?

    - Amount of sum negotiated between the applicant and council for cost award (£)

    - Was the decision that was the subject of the appeal made against officer recommendation (yes/no)?

    - PINS case reference number

    Published: 24 October 2023

  6. Homelessness Advice/Support

    How many households across your council area have approached the council for advice and support to prevent them becoming homelessness in the past five years.

    If you could break it down from 2018-2022 and then any data you have so far this year.

    Published: 24 October 2023

  7. Private Water Supplies - Leinthall Quarry

    I am writing to request details of deregulated abstractions (private water supplies) within a 3km radius of NGR: 344018 268461 - Leinthall Quarry.

    Published: 24 October 2023

  8. Number of people employed by Herefordshire Council working specifically in HR Education department

    How many people are employed by Herefordshire Council working specifically in HR Education department?

    For clarification I can confirm that the information I require is the number of HR staff employed by Herefordshire who work exclusively with education staff members and do not work with any other departments.

    Published: 23 October 2023

  9. Educational Psychology Services, Salaries and Posts

    Please provide the following information in line with FOIA:

    1. What is the structural FTE Educational Psychologists in the following grades:

    a. Assistant Educational Psychologists employed on the Soulbury Assistant Educational Psychologise Scale

    b. Educational Psychologists on Soulbury Scale A

    c. Educational Psychologists employed on Soulbury Scale B

    d. Educational and other Psychologists employed on any other scale

    2. How many vacant posts are there in the Educational Psychology Service?

    3. How many posts are filled on an interim or temporary basis by employees?

    4. What is the average salary (including on-costs) of employed Educational Psychologists

    5. What is the average daily cost of employed Educational Psychologists

    6. What is the average daily cost of the following categories of Educational Psychologists for the years 2020-2021, 2021-2022 and 2022-2023

    a. Temporary Educational Psychologists

    b. Locum Educational Psychologists

    c. Agency Educational Psychologists

    7. What is the total spend on locum/ agency / temporary Educational Psychologists for the year 2020-2021, 2021-2022 and 2022-2023.

    8. What is the current and projected spend on Locum Educational Psychologists for the current financial year?

    Published: 23 October 2023

  10. Council tax enforcement for 2022/2023 period

    1. In relation to your collection of council tax for the 2022/2023 council tax period please provide the total number of referrals/debts passed to enforcement agents.

    2. Please confirm the name of the enforcement company used by the council for the recovery of council tax debt.

    3. Please confirm if accounts which are part of the council tax reduction/support scheme are passed to enforcement companies and if so how many such cases were passed on for the 2022/23 council tax period.

    4. Please confirm if accounts of people on health/disability related benefits such as Disability Living Allowance, Employment Support Allowance and Personal Independence Payment are passed to enforcement companies and if so how many such cases were passed on for the 2022/23 council tax period.

    5. Please confirm if an assessment of vulnerability is done prior to a debt being passed to an enforcement company and if so provide a brief description of what the assessment involves. Please also confirm how many cases of people assessed as being vulnerable or potentially vulnerable were passed on to an enforcement company for the 2022/23 council tax period.

    6. Please confirm what protocols are in place between the local authority and enforcement companies regarding the approach that should be taken when someone is assessed as being vulnerable as per the assessment referred to in Q5. Please also confirm the kinds of cases which should be raised with, or referred back to, local authorities for further consideration when encountered.

    7. Please confirm:

    A) how many requests the council received to bring a council tax debt back from an enforcement agent due to vulnerability reasons during the 2022/23 period and

    B) How many times the council agreed to bring an account back due to vulnerability reasons during the 2022/23 period.

    Published: 23 October 2023