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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I am writing to request information regarding noise complaints associated with heat pumps in your area.
Could you please provide the following information for each year from 2015 to the most recent year with available data:
- The total number of noise complaints associated with heat pumps broken down by heat pump type if possible (e.g. water source, air source, ground source, shared loop ground source).
- The associated outcome of the noise complaints, if possible.
Published: 13 March 2024
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Please provide your total spend on communications and public relations for the last three financial year's (20/21, 21/22, 22/23).
For each year I would like a breakdown containing the following information:
• Spend on communications and public relations activities.
• Total number of communications and public relations employees.
• Total salary cost for all communications and public relations employees
Published: 13 March 2024
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1) Please inform me how many wheelie bins have been reported lost or stolen to your council in the last 12 months?
2) Please breakdown between wheelie bins being lost in the back of the bin lorry (accidental) and unexplained loss (i.e. stolen).
3) What investigations has the council undertaken regarding stolen wheelie bins in the last 12 months?
4) How much revenue has the council accumulated from charging people that have had there wheelie bin stolen in the last 12 months?
Published: 12 March 2024
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Please can I request the following information under the Freedom of Information Act:
The total budget in pounds (£) and the percentage of your Local Authorities total budget spent on non-statutory obligations funding in each of the financial years a) 2019-20, b) 2020-21, c) 2021-22, d) 2022-23, e) 2023-24
The total budget in pounds (£) and the percentage of your Local Authorities total budget spent on social care funding in each of the financial years a) 2019-20, b) 2020-21, c) 2021-22, d) 2022-23, e) 2023-24
The total budget in pounds (£) and the percentage of your Local Authorities total budget spent on temporary accommodation funding in each of the financial years a) 2019-20, b) 2020-21, c) 2021-22, d) 2022-23, e) 2023-24
Published: 11 March 2024
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Under the Freedom of Information Act, I would like to request the following information related to the enforcement of the Children and Families Act 2014, as amended by The Nicotine Inhaling Products (Age of Sale and Proxy Purchasing) Regulations 2015. Specifically, please provide me with:
1. The number of individuals who have been prosecuted in the last 12 months within your organisation's jurisdiction for the sale of nicotine inhaling products (sometimes known as "e-cigarettes", "vapes", or "vapour products") to individuals aged under 18, due to investigations conducted by Herefordshire Council.
2. The number of businesses and sole traders subject to any penalty in the last 12 months (including but not limited to fine, opening restrictions, removal of premises license) for the sale of nicotine inhaling products (sometimes known as "e-cigarettes", "vapes", or "vapour products") to individuals aged under 18, due to investigations conducted by Herefordshire Council.
3. The number of shops, and other places of business (including but not limited to market stalls, 'car-boot sales' and other point of sale locations) that council employees have visited in the last 12 months for the purposes of detection and disruption of the sale of nicotine inhaling products to individuals aged under 18.
4. The number of trading standard officers employed by the council whose job description, roles and responsibilities, entail the investigation, detection, and disruption of the sale of nicotine inhaling products to individuals aged under 18 and/or the removal of illicit products from retailers.
Published: 11 March 2024
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1. how many adult social workers are directly employed by the council
2. do you directly service reablment or outsource?
3. how many service users (i.e. how many people do they provide reablement for at any point in time)
4. Do you directly provide dom care/care at home beyond reablement packages?
5. Do you outsource any elements of social care? if so what elements?
6. What it systems do they currently use for rostering & scheduling work for adult social carers?
7. What applications do you use for mobile working for adult social carers
8. When are contracts up for renewal for these systems
Published: 11 March 2024
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Under Freedom of Information Act 2000, please can you provide the following information regarding language services.
1. Please confirm your overall spend on interpreting, translation and transcription services for the following financial years: * 2021-22 * 2022-23
2. Who is your incumbent supplier(s) for language services? If you have more than one supplier, which services does each one provide to you?
3. If you have a separate British Sign Language/non-spoken supplier, who is this?
4. If you have a separate transcription supplier, who is this?
5. Do you have any in-house interpreters/translators?
6. When is your current language services contract(s) due to expire, a) without extensions and b) with all possible extensions?
7. Could you please provide the name, phone number and email address of the contract manager responsible for language services?
8. Could you please provide the name, phone number and email address of the person responsible for your language services budget?
9. Could you please provide the following data for 2023: * Total number of face-to-face interpreting assignments (spoken language) and hours completed * Total number of face-to-face interpreting assignments (non-spoken language) and hours completed * Total number of telephone interpreting calls and minutes completed * Total number of video interpreting calls (spoken language) and minutes completed * Total number of video interpreting calls (non-spoken language) and minutes completed * Total number of document translations and words translated * Total number of audio transcriptions and total audio duration
10. What were your top 20 highest-volume languages for interpreting/translation requests in 2023?
11. Can you please provide the fill rate % you received for the following services in 2023: * Face-to-face interpreting * Telephone interpreting * Video interpreting * Document translation * Audio transcription
12. What languages has your provider been unable to source in the last 12 months?
13. Have service credits been applied on your language services contract in the last 12 months? If so, what performance failure was this linked to?
14. What social value has been delivered as part of this contract in the last 12 months?
15. If your contract was awarded through a tender process, can you please provide a copy of the winning bidder's tender?
16. What are your contracted rates for each of the following services? * Spoken face-to-face interpreting: hourly rate * Non-spoken face-to-face interpreting: hourly rate * Telephone interpreting: per minute rate * Spoken video interpreting: per minute rate * Non-spoken video interpreting: * Document translation: per word rate * Audio transcription: per audio minute rate
17. Has your provider of language services increased their charge rate to you in the last 12 months?
18. What is the Authority's typical route to market?
19. Does the Authority currently have any interpreter on wheel devices as part of their current contract? If yes please advise how many and if these are provided free of charge or paid for by the Authority.
20. Could you please provide the name, phone number and email address of the person responsible for the language services budget?
21. Could you please provide the name, phone number and email address of the person in charge of procurement for the Authority? Thank you for your time and I look forward to hearing from you.
Published: 11 March 2024
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Can I please request the following information:
- How many pupil exclusion requests have been made to the local authority from primary schools in 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020 and 2019?
- How many pupil exclusion requests have been made to the local authority from secondary schools in 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020 and 2019?
For both school types, can you please tell me:
- If the request was granted or denied by the local authority?
- If the request was denied by the local authority, what reason was given why?
- If the school was local authority run (maintained) or in a trust?
If answering this request will go over budget, can you please answer the first four bullet points (exclude the query about trust or maintained school).
Published: 11 March 2024
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Could you please give me the recent data for how much money is made from each of your car parks in Herefordshire. Providing the data in an Excel spreadsheet, can you state how much was money was generated from each of your car parks in Hereford, Leominster, Bromyard, Ledbury, Ross-on-Wye and Kington, with each individual car park listed. Can this be collated for the year 2023, or if not the last financial year please? UPDATE: Please can you provide information regarding both the income and profit generated?
Published: 8 March 2024
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This is a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. I would like to request the following information:
1) In the academic years 2021/22, 2022/23, and 2023/24 (so far), how much money was spent by the council on teaching and teaching assistant/support staff at pupil referral units within the council's remit that were hired via agencies on temporary contracts? Please separate these figures by school year, PRU and supplier.
2) Does the council have a written policy (or policies) that details an approach to mental and physical wellbeing for staff at pupil referral units? If the answer to this question is yes, please share the relevant documentation.
3) In the academic years 2021/22, 2022/23, and 2023/24 (so far), how many times were there incidences of violence towards staff at PRUs under the council's remit? Please separate these figures by school year.
4) What counselling and psychological staff is available to teaching and support staff in the PRUs under your remit? Please detail their qualifications and how many days a week they work.
Published: 8 March 2024