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. Fostering Data

    1. How many individual children (not placements) were placed into mainstream foster care by the LA over the past 12 months (or the most recent 12-month period that you're able to process)?

    2. Of those, please confirm how many individual children (not placements) were placed with foster carers of independent fostering agencies.

    3. What is the minimum, maximum and average agency fee you have given to IFAs for individual children (not placements) placed as 'standard' placements?

    4. What is the minimum, maximum and average agency fee you have given to IFAs for individual children (not placements) placed as 'enhanced' placements (including step-down, remand and children with disabilities)?

    5. What is the minimum, maximum and average agency fee you have given to IFAs for parent and child placements (placement fee, not for individuals)?

    6. Of all individual children (not placements) placed in the 12-month period, please break down the numbers by ethnicity (categories you record)

    7. And also by religion

    Published: 3 July 2023

  2. Agency workers

    Please can you provide me with the following information for the most recent complete

    fiscal year:

    · Total number of temporary workers engaged by your organisation, broken down

    by job role, if possible.

    · Total annual expenditure on temporary workers, including a breakdown of costs

    by Job role, if possible.

    - Agency with the highest spend, including a breakdown of costs

    by Job role, if possible.

    Published: 30 June 2023

  3. Information relating to legal challenges to Planning permission P192711/F

    Information relating to legal challenges to Planning permission P192711/F

    I would like the following limited information:-

    1) How much has it cost Herefordshire Council in total to successfully defend their decision in the High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court?

    2) Did the claimant obtain a Protective Costs Order and, if so, what were the costs limited to?

    3) Have the Council been awarded the full costs of defending these unsuccessful legal challenges?

    If not, what have the costs been limited to?

    4) Have the Council now reclaimed their costs or does it cost so much to reclaim that they are "written off"?

    Published: 30 June 2023

  4. Costs for Bypass

    Herefordshire Council has a new administration committed to the Hereford bypass.

    Please let me have:

    (1) The total cost of the bypass proposal at the time it was originally agreed by the Council and

    (2) Please let me have the full scientific analysis of the embodied carbon of the proposed Hereford Bypass. Embodied carbon (CO2e) is the total carbon content of materials (cement, concrete, steel, tarmac plus the fuel used in all construction activity).

    Published: 29 June 2023

  5. Organisation Devices

    Under the Freedom of Information Act, I would request you to respond to questions included in the attachment.

    Published: 29 June 2023

  6. Direct payment Policies

    I have read your response and can confirm my new request as follows:

    ~For the attention of adult social services~

    Could you kindly provide ALL of your policies related to direct payments (particularly those which serve as practice guidance for practitioners).

    Could you also provide your policies and practice guidance documents which govern how "Care and Support Plans" are to be developed.

    With the above policies and documents in mind, please also provide any other policies or practice guidance documents you feel are pivotal and fundamental to the above.

    Published: 28 June 2023

  7. Website Platform for Local Offer (Special Educational Needs Disabilities) support

    1. Does your Local Authority host a website platform for:

    • Local Offer (Special Educational Needs Disabilities (SEND) support) YES/ NO

    • Family Information Service (for families to access information in the local area) YES/ NO

    • Community Information Directory (local communities to access local events, clubs etc.) YES/NO

    2. If no to question 1. are there plans to develop the web platform? YES/ NO

    Please give details on which platform, timescale, how this will be commissioned and budget.

    3. If yes to question 1. please provide the website address for each of the following, indicating if platforms are combined:

    • Local Offer

    • Family Information Service

    • Community Information Directory

    4. How is the website platform provided? State either in house, external provider or other?

    • Local Offer (support SEND)

    • Family Information Service

    • Community Information Directory

    5. For the website platforms which are provided by an external provider what is the name of the provider and what is the contract end date?

    6. For the website platforms which are provided in- house are there plans to commission this externally?

    7. If you stated 'other', please expand on the details?

    8. What is the expenditure (£) for the following platforms in 2020 / 2021 / 2022 /2023? Broken down into; hosting, maintenance, development.

    • Local Offer (support SEND)

    • Family Information Service

    • Community Information Directory

    9. Which department in the Local Authority holds the budget for the following platforms:

    • Local Offer (support SEND)

    • Family Information Service

    • Community Information Directory

    10. Please give a contact name, email address and telephone number for the responsible Officer for:

    • Local Offer

    • Family Information Service

    • Community Information Directory

    Published: 28 June 2023

  8. Letterbox Services

    Who is responsible for ensuring ACE Adoptions operates a LETTERBOX SERVICE?

    How many families have been denied access to the LETTERBOX SERVICE?

    Why are ACE Adoptions services failing to run and maintain a proper LETTERBOX SERVICE?

    Can you also supply copies of all the policies and procedures you use that govern the use of LETTERBOX SERVICES for birth families.

    Published: 28 June 2023

  9. Noise complaints at Radfords Bar, Hereford FC 2019-2023

    Please can I request any noise complaints Radford's Bar at Hereford Fc has received in the last 5years

    Published: 28 June 2023

  10. Number of school-age children categorise as Children Missing Education (CME) in Herefordshire 2019

    I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information:

    1. In 2019, how many school-age children did the local authority categorise as Children Missing Education (CME), as set out in Section 436A Education Act 1996.

    2. As of the date of this request, how many school-age children does the local authority currently categorise as Children Missing Education (CME), as set out in Section 436A Education Act 1996.

    For clarification: Children missing education are children of compulsory school age who are not registered pupils at a school and are not receiving suitable education elsewhere.

    In addition to this, I would like the following information:

    1. How many Education Welfare Officers, or equivalent school attendance roles, were employed by the local authority in:

    a) 2013

    b) on the date of this request.

    Published: 27 June 2023