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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With regard to sewage being dumped in to the River Wye, when a planning application for building is applied for does the council factor in sewage disposal and the capacity of the sewerage works ,especially with large building sites such as Bobble Stock etc. If not, why not.
Published: 30 March 2023
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Please provide the current number of Electively Home Educated (EHE) children known to your authority.
Please provide the number of School Attendance Orders (SAO) served in relation to EHE children since 1/9/2022.
Please provide information on how many of those SAOs were revoked.
Please provide the number of those SAO's prosecuted for non-compliance.
Published: 30 March 2023
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I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information. Please may you provide me with:
1. What is the council's long-term EV strategy?
2. How many electric vehicle charging points have the council installed in the local authority? Including a split of slow, fast and rapid.
3. How many do the council plan to install over the next 12 months and financial year 2023/24? Including slow and fast charging points.
4. Will the council tender for charging points in point 3? If Yes, when? and which framework. And what funding will be available?
5. Are you receiving grant funding for electric vehicle infrastructure from the central government?
6. If yes, please confirm if this is via the On-street Residential Charging Scheme (ORCS) or LEVI funding.
7. How much will the council spend on installing electric vehicle charging points (as GBP and as a percentage of the overall 2023/24/25 budget)?
8. Who is in charge of leading the electric vehicle charging projects, their department and contact information?
9. Does the authority allow drilling in lamp columns to accommodate the installation of electric vehicle charging points?
10.What execution issues have been faced in implementing your current EV strategy, if any?
Published: 30 March 2023
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Q1. We are looking to find out if the council has done either of the models below for housing.
• Sale and Leaseback - Leaseback, short for "sale-and-leaseback", is a financial transaction in which one sells an asset and leases it back for the long term; therefore, one continues to be able to use the asset but no longer owns it.
• Income Strip - At its simplest, an income strip investment combines a strong tenant covenant, with a long-term lease and a forward funding arrangement to give an investor a stable and secure income stream. The strong tenant covenant frequently comes from the public sector such as local councils, and the long-term lease often runs between 30 and 50 years.
Q2. Can you advise of weekly rents paid for the following?
1. Temporary accommodation for homeless relief.
2. Extra care housing (not including any service charge elements, just the core rent)
3. Housing / Beds for adults with complex needs
Q3. Does the council own any land or disused buildings that they would be prepared to sell and or re purpose?
Published: 30 March 2023
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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 18/1/23 to the day of your reply or as close as possible.
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: 30 March 2023
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This FOI request arises out of a report that a washing-machine-sized data centre is being used to heat a Devon public swimming pool. I understand the Exmouth pool uses ~222,000 kWh of gas to heat the pool a year. Deep Green provides ~139,284kWh a year of heat for free from its data centre. This equates to 62% of the heating needs of the pool. This translates to a cost saving of £20,391 a year for the pool and a carbon saving of 25.8 tonnes
Please advise:
1. Whether you use similar technology in any swimming pools you own, fund or manage and if so any estimates you have of annual financial and carbon savings as a result.
2. Whether you have any plans to use similar technology in any swimming pools you own, fund or manage and if so any estimates you have of annual financial and carbon savings you expect to achieve as a result.
Published: 30 March 2023
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- How much did the council spend on bids for Round 1 of the Government's Levelling Up Fund?
- Could you outline what each of those bids was for and how much money was requested for each of them?
- How much money were those individual bids awarded under Round 1 of the Government's Levelling Up Fund?
- How much did the council spend on bids for Round 2 of the Government's Levelling Up Fund?
- Could you outline what each of those bids was for and how much money was requested for each of them?
- How much money were those individual bids awarded under Round 2 of the Government's Levelling Up Fund?
Published: 30 March 2023
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In relation to your externally delivered homecare can you please confirm:
a. What measures do you undertake to ensure homecare delivery is actually happening?
b. What measures do you undertake to monitor the quality of service provided by a supplier of homecare and how frequently are you monitoring providers?
c. How do you confirm provider invoices are accurate? d. Does the council collect electronic visit verification data from all its homecare providers to prove service delivery?
e. If not, why?
e. If yes, Is this sent directly to the council in a specified format? Is it sent at regular intervals?
Do providers use their own monitoring systems to send this data to the council?
Do you use this information to monitor quality?
Do you pay for your homecare delivery based on actual care delivery as evidenced by visit verification data? f.
Do you pay based on commissioned, planned or actual care?
g. What information do you provide to evidence care delivery when you encounter a compliant?
h. When are your current provider contracts up for renewal?
i. How many providers do you contract with on a framework block basis?
Published: 30 March 2023
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Please can you inform me why this was changed and under what legislation, with the appropriate notice and advertisement periods, this was carried out under.
Published: 30 March 2023
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I would like you to provide me with the following information which relates solely to Children's Residential Care (NOT ADULT CARE SERVICES)
1. The current number of Children's Residential Care Companies providing services to or on behalf of the Local Authority.
2. The name of each Children's Residential Care Company that has within the last 12 months or is currently providing support services to or on behalf of the Local Authority.
Published: 30 March 2023