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. Alcohol treatment services

    Request:

    1) Can the Local Authority's Director of Public Health provide an estimate for the number of referrals made to alcohol treatment services in your local authority area for the following financial years?

    a) 2018/19

    b) 2019/20

    c) 2020/21

    d) 2021/22

    2) Can the Local Authority's Director of Public Health provide the outturn data for budget spent on alcohol treatment services in your local authority area for the following financial years?

    a) 2018/19

    b) 2019/20

    c) 2020/21

    d) 2021/22

    3) Can the Local Authority's Director of Public Health provide the outturn data for budget spent on drug and alcohol treatment services in your local authority area for the following financial years?

    a) 2018/19

    b) 2019/20

    c) 2020/21

    d) 2021/22

    4) Can the Local Authority's Director of Public Health provide me with an estimate for the amount your local authority area is forecast to spend on alcohol treatment services in the following financial years?

    a) 2020/21

    b) 2021/22

    c) 2022/23

    5) Can the Local Authority's Director of Public Health provide me with an estimate for the amount your local authority area is forecast to spend on drug and alcohol treatment services in the following financial years?

    a) 2020/21

    b) 2021/22

    c) 2022/23

    Published: 7 October 2022

  2. Cost of works at Fromes Hill

    Can you please provide me with a complete cost of the recent highway works that have taken place at the bottom of Fromes Hill.

    Published: 7 October 2022

  3. Deputyship cases

    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 1/7/2022 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: 7 October 2022

  4. Paranormal activity complaints in social housing

    1) If your council has a social housing stock, please tell me how many complaints you received from tenants in

    a) 2021 and

    b) 2022 up to the date of this email relating to alleged paranormal activity at council house properties.

    Note: I would request, if practicable, that a search of logged complaints be carried out using the following keywords: ghost, poltergeist and paranormal.

    The results would need to be manually reviewed to eliminate any false positives.

    2) Finally, please supply me with a summary or (if available) the verbatim wording of the complaint for the FIVE most recent cases identified. Please redact any details that could identify an individual.

    Published: 7 October 2022

  5. Section 106 payments

    I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act, regarding developer contributions, or Section 106 payments. Specifically, my request concerns unpaid and overdue payments, for example payments that were tied to a specific date or point in a project, or payments that have been invoiced for but not received.

    For every payment that is owed to the council, I would like the following details:

    a) The amount of money owed;

    b) The date by which it was supposed to have been paid OR;

    c) If payment is tied to a trigger point in development rather than a date, then the date an invoice was raised

    d) The reference number for the associated planning case

    Published: 7 October 2022

  6. Premises Licence Baron Cross Road Leominster

    Ref: Barons Cross Baron Cross Road Leominster HR6 8RS (33140)

    Please can you confirm who the Premises Licence holder is for the above premises whether current or pending.

    Also whether there is a Gaming Machine Notification or Gaming Machine Permit in their name.

    If there is a permit could you also confirm the number and category of machines covered and when the annual fee would be due.

    Published: 7 October 2022

  7. Mobile Phone/Broadband Contract

    How many employees are at your organisation?

    How many mobile phone and mobile broadband (data only) connections do you currently have in total?

    How many of these are data only (for laptops and tablets)?

    How many of these are voice and data (for mobile phones)?

    Who is your mobile phone network provider?

    Do you have a shared data bundle or individual allowances?

    What is your organisations average total data usage across all connections?

    What was your total spend on mobile phone contract and overage costs in April 2021?

    What was your total spend on mobile phone contract and overage costs in May 2021?

    What was your total spend on mobile phone contract and overage costs in June 2021?

    What was your total spend on mobile phone contract and overage costs in July 2021?

    What was your total spend on mobile phone contract and overage costs in August 2021?

    What was your total spend on mobile phone contract and overage costs in September 2021?

    What was your total spend on mobile phone contract and overage costs in October 2021?

    What was your total spend on mobile phone contract and overage costs in November 2021?

    What was your total spend on mobile phone contract and overage costs in December 2021?

    What was your total spend on mobile phone contract and overage costs in January 2022?

    What was your total spend on mobile phone contract and overage costs in February 2022?

    What was your total spend on mobile phone contract and overage costs in March 2022?

    Do these numbers include VAT?

    When did you renew your mobile phone contract?

    How long does your contract run for?

    What is the renewal date of your contract?

    How did you source your contract?

    What is the value of your hardware/technology/transformation fund provided with the contract (if none provided please mark as n/a)

    Who is the shareholder/primary contact for this contract?

    Published: 7 October 2022

  8. Children’s Social Worker Pay

    1. Please provide details of your minimum and maximum basic pay rates in each grade for the jobs below in your children's social services:

    Family/Support Worker

    Newly Qualified Social Worker

    Social Worker Generic

    Social Worker Child Protection/Safeguarding

    Social Worker Family Placement

    Social Worker Child and Adolescent Mental Health

    Social Worker Youth Offending Team

    Senior Social Worker

    Assistant Team Manager

    Advanced Practitioner

    Consultant Social Worker

    Team Manager

    Principal Social Worker

    Service Manager

    Please base your return on your April 2022 payroll. If a job occupies two or more grades, please list data by each grade.

    2. Please provide how many FTE employees you have in the jobs below in each grade for your children's social services:

    Family/Support Worker

    Newly Qualified Social Worker

    Social Worker Generic

    Social Worker Child Protection/Safeguarding

    Social Worker Family Placement

    Social Worker Child and Adolescent Mental Health

    Social Worker Youth Offending Team

    Senior Social Worker

    Assistant Team Manager

    Advanced Practitioner

    Consultant Social Worker

    Team Manager

    Principal Social Worker

    Service Manager


    Please base your return on your April 2022 payroll. If a job occupies two or more grades, please list data by each grade.

    3. Please provide details (including scope and amounts) of any market force supplements you pay to any of the jobs below in your children's social services:

    Family/Support Worker

    Newly Qualified Social Worker

    Social Worker Generic

    Social Worker Child Protection/Safeguarding

    Social Worker Family Placement

    Social Worker Child and Adolescent Mental Health

    Social Worker Youth Offending Team

    Senior Social Worker

    Assistant Team Manager

    Advanced Practitioner

    Consultant Social Worker

    Team Manager

    Principal Social Worker

    Service Manager


    Please base your return on your April 2022 payroll. If a job occupies two or more grades, please list data by each grade.

    4. Please provide details (including scope and amounts) of any recruitment payments you pay to any of jobs below in your children's social services:

    Family/Support Worker

    Newly Qualified Social Worker

    Social Worker Generic

    Social Worker Child Protection/Safeguarding

    Social Worker Family Placement

    Social Worker Child and Adolescent Mental Health

    Social Worker Youth Offending Team

    Senior Social Worker

    Assistant Team Manager

    Advanced Practitioner

    Consultant Social Worker

    Team Manager

    Principal Social Worker

    Service Manager

    Please base your return on your April 2022 payroll. If a job occupies two or more grades, please list data by each grade.

    5. Please provide details (including scope and amounts) of any retention payments you pay to the jobs below in your children's social services:

    Family/Support Worker

    Newly Qualified Social Worker

    Social Worker Generic

    Social Worker Child Protection/Safeguarding

    Social Worker Family Placement

    Social Worker Child and Adolescent Mental Health

    Social Worker Youth Offending Team

    Senior Social Worker

    Assistant Team Manager

    Advanced Practitioner

    Consultant Social Worker

    Team Manager

    Principal Social Worker

    Service Manager

    Please base your return on your April 2022 payroll. If a job occupies two or more grades, please list data by each grade.

    6. Please provide details (including scope and amounts) of any welcome/start up payments you pay to the jobs below in your children's social services:

    Family/Support Worker

    Newly Qualified Social Worker

    Social Worker Generic

    Social Worker Child Protection/Safeguarding

    Social Worker Family Placement

    Social Worker Child and Adolescent Mental Health

    Social Worker Youth Offending Team

    Senior Social Worker

    Assistant Team Manager

    Advanced Practitioner

    Consultant Social Worker

    Team Manager

    Principal Social Worker

    Service Manager

    Please base your return on your April 2022 payroll. If a job occupies two or more grades, please list data by each grade.

    7. How many FTE temporary workers (staff employed via an agency) do you currently have in your Children's Social Services and which of the jobs below are they covering:

    Family/Support Worker

    Newly Qualified Social Worker

    Social Worker Generic

    Social Worker Child Protection/Safeguarding

    Social Worker Family Placement

    Social Worker Child and Adolescent Mental Health

    Social Worker Youth Offending Team

    Senior Social Worker

    Assistant Team Manager

    Advanced Practitioner

    Consultant Social Worker

    Team Manager

    Principal Social Worker

    Service Manager

    Please base your return on your April 2022 data. If a job occupies two or more grades, please list data by each grade.

    8. Do you use the social worker job evaluation role profiles (NJC, GLPC or Hay) to match your social work jobs to?

    YES - NJC

    YES - GLPC

    YES - HAY

    NOT USED

    Published: 7 October 2022

  9. Bike grants

    Could you please send me under the freedom of information act a full list of the business that received grant funded bicycles please.

    Published: 7 October 2022

  10. energy costs and children's residential care homes

    Please share your energy bills for each council-run children's residential home in your local authority over the past 24 months, including your most recent.

    Please share your predicted future energy bill for each council-run children's residential home in your local authority.

    Are your energy bills for council-run children's residential homes in your local authority protected by the price cap?

    How do you expect council-run children's residential homes in your local authority in England and Wales to operate this winter when taking into account the additional energy charges on the way?

    Published: 7 October 2022