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

  1. Seizure of illegal vapes and testing for prohibited substances, 2023-2024

    This is a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, and relates to your trading standards service.

    Please can you provide the following information. If possible, please can you provide these statistics broken down by month.

    1) How many illegal vapes have been seized by the trading standards service in the past year (January 2023 - January 2024)?

    2) Of these vapes, how many were tested for the presence of prohibited substances?

    3) Of those tested, how many tested positive for fentanyl?

    Published: 28 February 2024

  2. Number of prior approval planning applications, approved on the basis of an ICNIRP self cert

    Please would you let me know how many prior approval planning applications for your council have been approved on the basis of an ICNIRP self certification in the name of Three UK Ltd, since the end of 2015.

    In relation to applications on the planning portal, it is usually extremely difficult to locate the ICNIRP self-certificates for relevant 5G mast planning applications.

    Published: 28 February 2024

  3. Contract for family information service directory

    Please can you supply me with the following information:

    Which provider currently holds the contract to deliver your family information service directory?

    What is the annual value of that contract?

    When does that contract expire?

    Published: 27 February 2024

  4. Housing Officer training

    What training do housing officers responsible for discharging the council's duties under Part 7 of the Housing Act 1996 get in relation to:

    • The Housing Act 1996

    • The Homelessness Code of Guidance

    • The Homelessness Reduction Act 2017

    • The Equality Act 2010

    • The Care Act 2014, including safeguarding

    • The Data Protection Act 2018

    • Trauma Informed Practice

    • Implementing Psychologically Informed Environments

    • Domestic Abuse Act 2021

    • Human Rights Act 1998

    • Mental Capacity Act 2005

    • Dual diagnsosis

    • Multiple Exclusion and Homelessness

    • Mental Health in respect of making reasonable adjustments and priority need

    Published: 27 February 2024

  5. Children’s centres and family hubs in the financial year 2010/11

    Please could you answer the following question:

    How many children's centres and family hubs were operated by your council in the financial year 2010/11?

    Published: 26 February 2024

  6. Installation and removal of yellow lines at roundabout in Central Avenue

    Can you please provide me the cost for the following:

    1. Painting of yellow lines at the roundabout of Central Avenue

    2. Removal of yellow lines at the roundabout of Central Avenue

    Published: 26 February 2024

  7. AECOM report and list of 18 “road and non-road options”

    Please send me a copy of this report referred to in today's (21/02/24) online Hereford Times.

    "It was produced by consultants AECOM, who initially looked for 18 "road and non-road options" which they narrowed down to the best two"

    I request the full list of 18 options.

    Published: 26 February 2024

  8. Medium Term Financial Strategy

    1. How much deficit/pressure/overspend have you identified in your Medium Term Financial Strategy IN (a) 2024-25 (b) 2025-26 and (c) 2026-27. Please do not provide me with a figure for 2023-24 or any year before that.

    2. Please provide (a) a link to your latest Medium Term Financial Strategy and (b) the page number(s) where the answer to question 1 can be found. If you do not provide a page number I will request an Internal Review on the ground that you have misinterpreted what constitutes 'accessible information'. I am not a finance expert, so without clear signposting to the data I will not be able to find it.

    Published: 26 February 2024

  9. Placement costs at High Acuity Residential Children's Homes

    Regarding Placement costs at High Acuity Residential Children's Homes, Please provide me the following:

    1. Number and individual cost of placements in public sector / not for profit settings.

    2. Number and individual cost of placements in for profit settings Please provide this data for the last financial/academic year for which you have full records and either in Excel, CSV or ODS format.

    Published: 26 February 2024

  10. Citizens' Climate Assembly Advisory Group

    I would like to request the following information relating to the Citizens' Climate Assembly run by Herefordshire Council in January 2022: 1. Who were the members of the Advisory Group of the assembly?

    Published: 26 February 2024