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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1. Please can you confirm if this council used "greeters" at the entrance to voting stations during the recent May 2023 elections?
2. Did you record the number of people turned away from voting stations by "greeters" during the May 2023 elections?
3. Please provide ALL datasets you hold regarding the number, use and impact of "Greeters" at polling stations during the recent local elections held in May 2023
4 . Please provide ALL datasets you hold regarding the use of voter ID and the impact of voter ID at the recent local elections held in May 2023
Published: 21 June 2023
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1 Who is the procurement lead for the annual billing print and mail project?
2 Are you currently in a contract to supply these services?
3 If so, who is this with and when does it finish?
4 Who is the procurement lead for electoral service?
5 Are you currently in a contract to supply these services?
6 If so, who is this with and when does it finish?
7 Do you have a hybrid mail service (print and post)?
8 Which departments use this?
9 Who is your current supplier?
10 Who is the procurement lead?
11 Do you promote agile workers?
12 Do you have a particular cost saving target through back -office process efficiencies - who is responsible for this?
12 Who overseas procurement and manages the procurement process within the council ?
Published: 21 June 2023
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These questions specifically pertain to the funding allocated to English Local Authorities as part of the UK Household Support Fund from 1st April 2022 - 31st March 2023. There have been four tranches of the Household Support Fund so far, we are referring to the second and third tranches. The second tranche ran from April 1st - September 30th 2022. The third tranche ran from 1st October 2022 - 31st March 2023. We believe you were awarded £1.3m in tranche two and £1.3m in tranche three of the HSF.
Please answer the following questions with separate answers for tranche two and for tranche three.
1. Please provide us with a copy of the management information return you were required to provide to the DWP for both tranche 2 and tranche 3 of the Household Support Fund.
2. Please provide a separate breakdown of how tranche two and tranche three were spent respectively:
(a) Targeted Grants
(b) Direct applications to the scheme
(c) Local Welfare Assistance Scheme
(d) Voluntary and Community Sector Organisations
(e) Other
3. (a) If you accepted applications to this fund how many did you receive in tranche two and in tranche three?
(b) How many applications were successful in each tranche?
(c) What were the eligibility requirements for applications, if any?
4. (Please answer question four for the financial year 2022/23, without splitting the information into tranche two and three)
(a) Excluding funding given to local welfare schemes or third-party organisations, how much of the HSF did you spend on helping people with furniture and appliances?
(b) If you did help people with furniture please tick (or otherwise indicate) which furniture/appliance types you provide and tell us whether these are new or preloved (e.g. Y/N, New/Preloved): • Cooker • Fridge • Freezer • Fridge Freezer • Washing Machine • Sofa • Bed • Wardrobe • Chest of Drawers • Table and Chairs • Flooring (Carpets or Lino) • Window coverings (curtains or blinds)
Published: 20 June 2023
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For each of the financial years 2017/18, 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23 please provide me with the following:
1. The total number of staff employed (directly or indirectly) by the local authority to inspect residential properties for category 1 or 2 hazards.
2. Of (1), the total number who were qualified Environmental Health Officers.
3. The total number of inspections carried out by either (1) or (2) to see whether category 1 or 2 hazards exist in residential properties which are owned by the council or social housing providers, or privately rented. (Please refer to section four of the Housing Act 2004 if in doubt about the nature of the inspections.)
4. The total number of complaints that the local authority has received about hazards or poor conditions in residential properties which are owned by the council or social housing providers, or privately rented.
Published: 20 June 2023
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This request seeks to collect data for individuals living in Supported Living and Residential Care settings with Learning Disabilities including those with Learning Disabilities and Autism.
We are not asking for information related to those with only Autism who do not have a Learning Disability unless you are unable to separate the data. If this is the case, please make this clear in your response.
LD Supported Living:
1. Please complete the following table with the information requested for the last full week of April 2023
Category
Total Hours for the week
Mean hourly rate paid
Median hourly rate paid
Lowest hourly rate paid
Highest hourly rate paid
Hours provided during the day
Wake hours provided during the night
Sleep-ins provided
Residential LD Care:
2. Please complete the following table with the information requested for the last full week of April 2023
Category
Mean rate paid
Median rate paid
Lowest rate paid
Highest rate paid
Placements
Current total placements today
Nursing LD Care
3. Please complete the following table with the information requested for the last full week of April 2023
Category
Mean rate paid
Median rate paid
Lowest rate paid
Highest rate paid
Placements
Current total placements today
4. Please provide the annual fee uplift for the current financial period. If you have paid a bespoke uplift to different care providers or residents, please provider the average % uplift paid to providers in the period stated:
(Supported Living)
Year
Percentage uplift
Number of Providers receiving this uplift
Number of Individuals receiving this uplift
2023-24
(Residential Care)
Year
Percentage uplift
Number of Providers receiving this uplift
Number of Individuals receiving this uplift
2023-24
(Residential Care with Nursing)
Year
Percentage uplift
Number of Providers receiving this uplift
Number of Individuals receiving this uplift
2023-24
5. For the period 1st April 2022 to 31st March 2023, please provide the number of individual residents, where their contracts for the provision of LD services for both residential care or supported living were either terminated by the care provider, handed back by the care provider, or were renegotiated due to the threat or notice of termination/handing back was made by the care provider. You should provide the number of residents this applies to and the number of care providers.
Published: 20 June 2023
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What provision during the summer holidays 2023 is available for children who are ordinarily eligible for free school meals?
What is the budget allocated for this year's scheme?
How many children are eligible for the support?
How much money has been allocated per child?
What is the eligibility criteria for the support?
Please provide the information in an excel spreadsheet or other machine readable format.
Published: 19 June 2023
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1. How many trees does the council currently plan to fell (recommended for removal) over the next 12 months so far and why does it plan to fell them?
2. Has the council carried out any public consultation on the removal of these trees or does it have plans to do so. If so, could you please provide any detail on the number of objections/votes of support this decision has had? Please provide examples of objections and support in document form if this is possible.
3. Does the council plan to replace any of the trees, if so how many?
4. If the cost limit has not yet been reached for this request, please provide the number of trees felled over the previous two financial years (2022/3) and (2021/2). If this will breach the cost limit, please ignore this question.
Published: 19 June 2023
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Please can you provide me with the following information under the Freedom Of Information Act 2000:- From the business rates department only please Please advise which social housing providers and charities currently operate within the local authority, please provide a list by excel. Please provide a list of social housing providers and charities that are currently have been awarded mandatory and or discretionary relief within the local authority.
Published: 19 June 2023
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One of the criteria in the Council Climate Change Action Scorecard <https://councilclimatescorecards.uk/> is a Local Authority's commitment to a 20mph speed limit on restricted roads. Local Authorities in Wales and in Scotland will soon be implementing 20mph as a national norm.
In order to assess progress towards 20mph in England, please provide answers to the following:
1. Do you have plans in place to make 20mph the norm or default speed limit for most restricted roads?
2. Have you requested the UK Government to set 20mph as the default speed limit for restricted roads in England?
3. Are you committed to Vision Zero as part of your traffic/transport strategy?
Published: 19 June 2023
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☆For the attention of Adult Social Services☆
The term data in the heading above refers to the actual activity/service/goods that a direct payment was/is used for and not just the broader category that it falls within. Of course, the broader category can be included as well. Where direct payments are used for personal assistants (PA), these can be excluded from the dataset.
The primary purpose of this request is to receive a full breakdown of how individual users spend their direct payments. The amount of each payment would be very useful but not essential. The total direct payment amount each person receives is useful though and this can be displayed weekly or monthly or whichever is easiest for you.
So, to re-iterate, please provide all data in relation to how direct payments are specifically being used by users aged 24 - 54 and all other age groups can be excluded. The more comprehensive and detailed this list is, the more useful it will be for this FOI request. For example, data showing DPs being used for a gym membership (including how much it costs) would be far more valuable than data showing DPs being used for "leisure activities" which would be too broad; nonspecific and unhelpful.
If you require dates to extract this data could you extract it from either of the following financial years (preferably both):
• 2018-2019
• 2022-2023
Published: 19 June 2023