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. Average cost of looked after child 2021/2022 and Q1 & Q2 2022/2023

    I should be most grateful if you would disclose:

    1. the average cost of each Looked-After Child for 2021-22

    2. the average cost of each Looked-After Child for Q1 and Q2 for 2022-23 (explain how calculated) under the following subheadings only: *In-House Fostering (excluding Staying Put) *External Fostering *Residential

    Published: 18 January 2023

  2. Section 106 Agreements granted from 1 January 2005 and 31 December 2010

    Regarding S106 agreements granted from 1st January 2005 and 31st December 2010, please provide the following information:

    • Funds received

    • Funds allocated

    • Funds spent, and on what

    • Funds unspent

    • Funds repaid Please provide this information in an accessible digital format.

    Published: 18 January 2023

  3. safeguarding at the John Kyrle High School

    Please provide me with the following information, under Freedom of Information:

    -A copy of a review into safeguarding at the John Kyrle High School and Sixth Form Centre, as carried out during the 2021-22 academic year by the education consultant George Craig.

    -A copy of a review of governance at the John Kyrle High School and Sixth Form Centre, as carried out by the education consultant Denis Barry.

    If Herefordshire County Council has a copy of either or both of these reports, please release them, with suitable redactions, under FOI.

    Published: 18 January 2023

  4. Deputyship cases

    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 1/11/22 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: 18 January 2023

  5. Sustainable Warmth, Hereford

    I would be grateful if you could establish for me, under the Freedom of Information Act how many properties in the boundaries of Hereford Council:-

    A. Have applied for help under the Keep Herefordshire Warm scheme.

    B. How many have been accepted following the council survey assessment.

    C. How many have been referred to the contractors.

    D. How many following the Contractor survey assessment have had no further communication as to what could be done OR

    E. Received no communication as to why nothing could be done.

    F. Have successfully had upgrading completed.

    In the mean time, presumably the relevant contracted agencies are drawing down precious government finance intended to finance a project to establish what sort of properties and what sort of improvements might best improve sustainable warmth in Hereford Housing stock, or, if not why not.

    Published: 18 January 2023

  6. Staff employed to work on communications

    1. How many staff (as measured by full-time equivalents) do you employ to work on communications? Please include all internal and external communications including work on your website, media queries and social media.

    2. What was your communication spending for the financial year 2021/22 and what is the budget for the current communications spending in the current financial year?

    Published: 17 January 2023

  7. Number of potholes reported and repaired in 2022

    1. The number of potholes reported in 2022

    2. The number of potholes repaired in 2022

    Published: 17 January 2023

  8. Pothole data 2020, 2021 and 2022

    I am submitting a freedom of information request about potholes in your authority area, specifically:

    • the number of potholes reported in the last 3 years. Please provide the figure for each year (2020, 2021 and 2022.)

    • the combined width of the potholes in meters for each year, again (2020,2021 and 2022.)

    • the average time in calendar days it takes to repair the potholes for each year (2020,2021 and 2022.)

    • how much is spent on repairing potholes each year? Again, for 2020, 2021 and 2022.

    • total number of potholes reported to your authority, since you began recording this data.

    • how much money has been given to drivers as compensation due to poor road conditions in the past three years in your local authority area, for 2020, 2021 and 2022.

    Published: 16 January 2023

  9. Road repairs and expenditure 2018/19 - 2021/22

    I am looking for the following information:

    * Please state how much was spent on repairing defective road surface/potholes (roads only, not pavements) in 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21 and 2021/22?

    * Please state how much was spent on carriageway resurfacing in 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21 and 2021/22?

    * How many miles of carriageway resurfacing took place in 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21 and 2021/22?

    * Please state whether the council predominantly resurfaces using polymer modified stone asphalt, stone mastic asphalt or other?

    * Please state how much was paid out (in £) to drivers making a claim for damage caused to their vehicles due to defective road surface/potholes in 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21 and 2021/22?

    Published: 16 January 2023

  10. Interim-ceo salaries

    The questions relate to the pay of both chief executives and interim chief executives.

    1. Has your organisation hired an interim chief-executive officer(s) in the past five years (from now up until January 2018)? If this is the case, please provide their names and the dates they held the position for (if more than one interim CEOs have been in place over the past five years, please give the dates both held the position? If an interim CEO is currently in place, please make this clear.

    2. For each interim-CEO who was in place, please provide their pay (before tax). Ideally, this will be given as a daily rate - however, if this is not achievable, please provide a monthly salary or an annual one. Please include any bonuses awarded to the individual(s) during their employment. If an interim-CEO is currently in place, please provide the number of months they are expected to serve and how many of these have been served so far. If their pay changed over their term, please clarify when and how it was altered.

    3. Please provide the salary of the current chief executive (full-time not interim). If an interim-CEO is currently in place, please provide the annual salary of the most recent permanent CEO and the dates they were in the position for. As above, please provide any bonuses awarded to the CEO in this period. If the individual's salary changed over the five year term, please make this clear.

    Published: 16 January 2023