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. Holiday Childcare Survey 2024 (England)

    In each section of this survey please report on your most recent data.

     

    Section A – Cost of holiday childcare

     

    2. Please give the typical (average/mean) price per day and per week of a full-time place in a holiday club in your local area.

     

    Typical price per day

    Typical price per week

    Maintained sector

     

     

    PVI sector

     

     

     

    Section B – Amount of holiday childcare in your area

    3. What is the total number of holiday clubs in the PVI and maintained sector?

     

    Total number of holiday clubs

    Total in maintained sector

     

    Total in PVI sector

     

     

    Section C – When holiday childcare is available

    4. How many holiday clubs in your area are open for a full day (8am-6pm, Mon-Fri)?

     

    Number of holiday clubs open for a full day (8am-6pm, Mon-Fri)

    Maintained sector

     

    PVI sector

     

     

    5. How many holiday clubs in your area are usually open in each of the school holidays and inset days?

    Important guidance on completing question 5:

    ·       Each holiday club can be counted once for each of the school holiday periods in which they are open.

    ·       This means that answers to this question do not need to sum to the total number of holiday clubs in your area as one holiday club, may be counted more than once.

    ·       However, the figure for any one holiday period should not exceed the total number of providers in your local authority.

     

     

    Summer holiday

    Easter holiday

    Christmas holiday

    Half terms

    INSET days

    Example

    10

    6

    3

    6

    2

    Maintained sector

     

     

     

     

     

    PVI sector

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Section D - Changes to childcare providers and places

    6. a) For the following categories, please mark the box (X) indicating whether the total number of holiday clubs/play scheme providers has increased, decreased, or stayed the same since 2023.

     

    Increased

    Decreased

    Same as 2023

    Not applicable (none either year)

    Data not held or cannot tell

    Maintained sector

     

     

     

     

     

    PVI sector

     

     

     

     

     

     

    b)  Similarly, please mark the box (X) indicating whether the total number of holiday childcare places across all sectors has increased, decreased, or stayed the same since 2023.

     

    Increased

    Decreased

    Same as 2023

    Data not held or  cannot tell

    Overall number of places

     

     

     

     

     

    Section E – Whether there is enough holiday childcare

    7. Is there enough holiday childcare in your local authority area (childcare sufficiency) for the following groups?

     

    Yes: in all areas

    Yes: in some areas

    No

    Data not held or cannot tell

    4- to 7-year-olds

     

     

     

     

    8- to 11-year-olds

     

     

     

     

    12- to 14-year-olds

     

     

     

     

    Disabled children

     

     

     

     

    Parents working full-time (9am-5pm on weekdays)

     

     

     

     

    Parents working atypical hours (outside 9am to 5pm on weekdays)

     

     

     

     

    Please leave this question blank if there are no rural areas in your local authority

     

    Children in rural areas

     

     

     

     

     

    Published: 31 May 2024

  2. Agreed planning references that contain a S106 document for the years 2011-2019

    In accordance with the Freedom of Information Act, I would like to request the following:

    Could you please provide the planning references for all applications that contain a S106 agreement for the years 2011-2019?

    Published: 31 May 2024

  3. May Fair revenue, and the cost of removing and resitting the planters for 2023 and 2024

    Please forward me for last year and this year:

    1) How much revenue is paid by the May Fair.

    2) The cost of removing and resitting the planters back to there original place.

    3) The loss of revenue in from Gaol Street car park whilst storing the planters.

    Published: 31 May 2024

  4. Illegal traveller encampments on council land over the past 3 years

    Could you please advise as to how many illegal evictions have been made from council land over the past three years?

    The request would then specifically be requesting:

    Annual figures of the following over the past three years:

    - No. of evictions of illegal traveller encampments on council land.

    - What the size of these evictions were.

    - And what the spend on evictions was, with the split between legal fees versus physically evicting individuals.

    - Could you also please advise as to whether the cases were common law, or high court evictions and who looked into the legalities of eviction; was the case prepared internally or did external parties look into cases?

    Published: 30 May 2024

  5. Moss Filters installed in Hereford

    I would like to request the following information regarding the moss filters installed in Hereford:

    1.The location of each of the moss filters together with the dates when they became operational.

    2.The purchase price of each filter.

    3.The running/maintenance cost of each filter for each year they have been operational.

    4.The mass of carbon dioxide (NOT volume) removed by each filter each year.

    5. Where and how the carbon dioxide has been disposed of.

    Published: 24 May 2024

  6. Section 114 since 2021

    I would like to request the following as an FOI please:

    Whether the council has considered submitting a section 114 since 2021, and whether the council thinks it will submit one in the next three years (until financial year finishing 2027).

    Published: 23 May 2024

  7. Children in care who re-entered care

    Please advise:

    1. The total number of children you currently have in care.

    2. The percentage of the children currently in care who have re-entered care after reunification with their birth parent(s) and/or a special guardianship with another relative.

    3. The percentage of the children currently in care who have re-entered care after reunification with their birth parent(s) and/or a special guardianship with another relative and who have re-entered care due to abuse or neglect.

    4. The percentage of the children currently in care who have re-entered care after adoption.

    5. The percentage of the children currently in care after adoption who have re-entered care after adoption and who have re-entered care due to abuse or neglect.

    Published: 23 May 2024

  8. Number of excluded pupils in Herefordshire

    If you have the data, please include academies, but if not, local authority maintained schools within the local authority area will be fine.

    * How many pupils were excluded from primary and secondary schools managed by Herefordshire Council during the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023, and 2024 to date.

    * For each exclusion, can you state what the reason(s) were?

    * For each exclusion, can you state what school the pupil attended.

    Published: 22 May 2024

  9. Loans given by the council

    According to the borrowing and investment live table, as of 31 December 2023, the council's outstanding investment in loans to other local authorities was £5,000,000. (Source: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-local-government-finance).

    In regards to the above figure, I would like to know:

    For each individual loan given by the council:

    1. The local authority/borrower name

    2. The amount advanced (the initial amount)

    3. The outstanding balance

    4. The interest rate

    5. The settlement date (the date the loan was agreed)

    6. The agreed maturity date (the date on which the loan is set to end). 


    I would like the response in Excel format with the questions as column headings.

    Published: 22 May 2024

  10. Blue Badge Service Provision

    Does the council rely on externally commissioned services or employ in-house assessors for blue badge Independent Mobility Assessments?

    If you use an externally commissioned service, could you provide the name of this service provider?

    If the council internally employs in-house assessors, please specify the number of clinically trained assessors and administrative staff who work on blue badge applications.

    Do you collaborate with local GP services or NHS trusts to conduct blue badge assessments?

    How many of your applications are received through the .gov blue badge digital portal?

    How many applications are received direct to the council outside of the .gov blue badge digital portal process?

    Do members of the blue badge administration team fill out an application on either the .gov blue badge digital portal, or an internal form on behalf of an applicant that feels they are unable to do it themselves?

    Do you use an internal digital case management system for blue badge applications? If so, what is the name of this system.

    What is your current cost per assessment? (i.e. triage, telephone assessment & Independent Mobility Assessment)

    Published: 22 May 2024