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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Please can you provide all information for the financial year 2020-21, and from the start of the financial year 2021 to 31 December 2021, for the following: 1. Money spent on public relations within your local authority area.
Published: 15 February 2022
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Q1. How many children/young people within your Local Authority have been awarded and currently access Personal Budgets for Education?
Q2. How many of the Personal Budgets for Education currently accessed have been provided as part of an Educated Otherwise Than At/In School (EOTAS/EOTIS) provision described in the Education Health and Care Plan (EHCP)?
Q3. How many of the Personal Budgets for Education currently accessed have been awarded to children/young people who are being Electively Home Educated (EHE)?
Q4. How many of the Personal Budgets for Education currently accessed are awarded in the form of Direct Payments to families?
Q5. What is the total cost of Personal Budgets for Education within your Local Authority?
Q6. What is the total cost of Personal Budgets for Education allocated as Direct Payments to families within your Local Authority?
Published: 14 February 2022
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Please could you tell me how many serious case reviews have been carried out into deaths or serious injuries to children in Herefordshire since 2011?
Please could you include the dates when the reviews were concluded in your reply?
Published: 14 February 2022
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How much the Council is spending in this financial year on all measures, financial support and poverty prevention programmes that the Council has in place to help residents deal with the rising cost of living. This includes, but is not limited to, applications made to the UK Government's Household Support Fund, the Council's use of Discretionary Housing Payments, donations made to local food banks and all local welfare provisions, assistance schemes or hardship funds that the Council has set-up.
Published: 14 February 2022
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Can you please tell me:
Q1. Who the authority contracts with for Sexual health services?
Q2. What services are covered e.g. STI testing & treatment, Contraception, HIV ?
In both cases, can you please tell me
Q3. What is the value of the current contract?
Q4. How many years was the current contract awarded for?
Q5. When does the current contract expire?
Q6. When is the next retendering process scheduled to begin?
Q7. What Local authority areas are covered by these services?
Published: 14 February 2022
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Could you please provide me with a copy of any Opening notices (streetworks notices) you have received in respect of any utility at the following location, side of 94 Chandos Street Hereford HR4 0EX prior to 29/10/2021.
Published: 14 February 2022
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My request relates to Special Education Needs (SEND) tribunals and costs, and is as follows: 1. Please provide a monthly breakdown of the number of appeals made by parents, guardians, or other authorities, against any SEND decisions made by the council concerning a child's EHCP, from January 2018 - January 2022 2. Please provide a monthly budget breakdown of all money spent on SEND tribunals, from January 2018 - January 2022. Please include any relevant or associated costs, for example solicitor costs, in-house solicitor time, associated costs such as SEND team costs including days spent, social care costs including days spent, health costs including days spent, total cost for SEND mediation services, and any additional costs associated with SEND tribunal such as printing and admin time 3. If possible, please break down the monthly costs as above or however best suits, but if a substantive response is not possible within the time frame, please just provide total/overall costs over this time period rather than breaking it down, to preclude the need of making a new request. If that is still not possible, please prioritize spending on barristers and solicitors, but keep the information consistent across the given time period.
Published: 14 February 2022
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Q1. Please provide a monthly breakdown of the number of appeals made by parents, guardians, or other authorities, against the council's decision on a child's EHCP, from January 2018 - January 2022
Q2. Please provide a monthly budget breakdown of all money spent on SEND tribunals, from January 2018 - January 2022. Please include any relevant or associated costs, for example solicitor costs, in-house solicitor time, associated costs such as SEND team costs including days spent, social care costs including days spent, health costs including days spent, total cost for SEND mediation services, and any additional costs associated with SEND tribunal such as printing and admin time.
Published: 11 February 2022
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I am writing to make a request for data under the Freedom of Information Act concerning non-decent housing. Each year local authorities in England submit data to the MHCLG (now DLUHC) concerning local authority housing stock. This includes data on the condition of the dwelling stock, dwellings that do not meet the decent homes standard, and associated costs of making them decent.
This FOI request is seeking more specific data in relation to this MHCLG collection and therefore definitions should be read within the context of the guidance given to councils when completing this return.
A home is non decent if it meets one or more of the following criteria: a) does not meet the current statutory minimum standard for housing due to having one or more serious 'category 1 hazards' under the Housing Health and Safety Rating System (HHSRS), b) is not in a reasonable state of repair, c) does not have reasonably modern facilities and services, and/or d) does not provide a reasonable degree of thermal comfort.
One example category 1 hazard is excess cold, where sub-optimal indoor temperatures are deemed a threat to occupant's health. The request For the following questions, please provide data that was correct as of 31 March 2021. If this is not possible however please provide the most recent available data and specify the date of extraction (ie what date the data is correct as of).
I would like to know:
Q1. How many council-owned dwellings failed the decent home criteria by virtue of suffering from a category 1 hazard of 'excess cold'?
Please only include Class 1 hazard dwellings, and not those that fail because they do not have a reasonable degree of thermal comfort.
Q2. Of the council-owned dwellings with a class 1 excess cold hazard, how many are occupied?
Q3. Of the council-owned homes with a class 1 excess cold hazard which are occupied, how many have not had work to address the cold hazard because the tenant refused to allow the work to be carried out?
Q4. For the next question, I would like your most up to date snapshot.
Please tell me:
How many council-owned dwellings fail the decent homes standard by virtue of
a) category 1 excess cold and
b) not having a reasonable degree of thermal comfort.
Please provide figures for a) and b) separately and specify how many any dwellings fall into both catgeories.
Please tell me what date the data provided was extracted. Finally, please provide answers to the next questions for the last five full financial years (2016/17, 2017/18, 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21), broken down by year:
Q5. In the last five financial years, how much has the council spent to remove class 1 excess cold hazards from council owned dwellings?
Q6. In the last five financial years, how much has the council spent to make council-owned dwellings 'without a reasonable degree of thermal comfort' decent?
Please only include the money spent on improving the thermal comfort - for instance if a home was non-decent because it both had an unreasonable degree of thermal comfort and was not in a reasonable state of repair, please count only the money spent improving the thermal comfort.
Q7. In the last five financial years, how much has the council spent to prevent dwellings becoming non decent due to non-reasonable thermal comfort or due to having an excess cold category 1 hazard?
Q8. In the last five financial years how much has the council paid out in grants to
a) private renters and
b) owner-occupiers to make improvements to a dwelling's thermal comfort?
Please break this data down by year, and provide separate data for renters and owner occupiers.
If the council has undergone a merger/structural change in the last five years, please provide the data for the predecessor councils where possible.
Published: 11 February 2022
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We are requesting information about the fee rates paid by local authorities to care providers for the provision of home care and residential social care services. We have drawn on the categories used and described by the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services to define the information we are requesting. If these definitions are not compatible with how the data is collected, please provide the most similar available information with an explanatory note or contact us for further clarity.
Definition
Q1.
a) Please provide the information regarding fee rates paid to independent and voluntary sector providers in October 2021 for the provision of CQC regulated home care for disabled adults, including those with a learning disability and/or autism.
i. Lowest hourly rate.
ii. Highest hourly rate.
iii. Mean average hourly rate.
- Please exclude rates for the provision of care and support at night as these are included within question 2.
- Please include all independent/private and non-profit providers.
- By disability we are referring to physical, mental, sensory, learning or cognitive impairment as distinct from mental illness or needs associated with old age alone. Please indicate if your response adopts different criteria.
- If the data is not recorded in pounds and pence per hour, please provide the figures as they are with an explanatory note.
b) If you pay different rates for supported living or extra care services from your home care rates, please provide the following information for each. Alternatively, please confirm that you pay the same rates.
i. Lowest hourly rate.
ii. Highest hourly rate.
iii. Mean average hourly rate.
c) If you pay different rates for adults aged 18-64 years old from those aged 65 or over, please provide the following information for each. Alternatively, please confirm that you pay the same rates.
i. Lowest hourly rate.
ii. Highest hourly rate.
iii. Mean average hourly rate.
Q2. Please provide the following information regarding the fee rates paid to independent and voluntary sector providers in October 2021 for the provision of care and support at night.
a) For waking night staff.
i. Lowest hourly rate.
ii. Highest hourly rate.
iii. Mean average hourly rate.
b) For sleep-in staff.
i. Lowest hourly rate.
ii. Highest hourly rate.
iii. Mean average hourly rate.
Should the council pay a fixed rate, then this may be offered as an alternative to hourly rates.
Q3. Please provide the following information regarding the fee rates paid to independent and voluntary sector providers in October 2021 for council-funded residential social care for disabled adults, including those with a learning disability and/or autism.
a) For adults aged 18 - 64, with a learning disability.
i. Lowest weekly fee.
ii. Highest weekly fee.
iii. Mean weekly fee.
b) For adults aged 18 - 64, with a physical disability.
i. Lowest weekly fee.
ii. Highest weekly fee.
iii. Mean weekly fee.
c) For adults aged 65 and over, with a learning disability.
i. Lowest weekly fee.
ii. Highest weekly fee.
iii. Mean weekly fee.
d) For adults aged 65 and over, with a physical disability.
i. Lowest weekly fee.
ii. Highest weekly fee.
iii. Mean weekly fee.
Published: 11 February 2022