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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We are researching solutions that ensure equal access to safe, affordable and sustainable energy across all communities.
Specifically, we are looking at ways of distributing information to households on how to reduce energy consumption. This would include things like government grants such as the Home Upgrade Grant and ECO4.
1. What methods do you utilise to distribute information regarding home energy efficiency (such as grants or energy saving advice)? e.g. Letters, phone calls etc
2. Do you specifically target this at low-income households, or do you distribute this to every household in your area?
3. Would you be able to share any of the approximate annual costs involved in these distribution methods?
Published: 2 March 2023
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Under the Freedom of Information Act, I would like to request the following information regarding adult care services.
Please kindly include responses on the attached Excel spreadsheet.
1. Please provide the average and median weekly rate paid by the LA in nursing and residential care 2021/22 for: a. Older person's general placement
b. Older person's EMI placement
c. Adult with a learning disability placement
d. Adult with a mental health need placement
e. Adult with a neurological need placement
f. Adult with a physical disability placement
Note: Please provide 2021/22 data as a snapshot at year end.
2. Please provide the average and median weekly rate paid by the LA in nursing and residential care 2022/23 for: a. Older person's general placement
b. Older person's EMI placement
c. Adult with a learning disability placement
d. Adult with a mental health need placement
e. Adult with a neurological need placement
f. Adult with a physical disability placement
Note: Please provide 2022/23 data as a current snapshot. If not available, please provide at YTD or budgeted year end.
3. Please provide the budgeted average and median weekly rate paid by the LA in nursing and residential care 2023/24 for:
a. Older person's general placement
b. Older person's EMI placement
c. Adult with a learning disability placement
d. Adult with a mental health need placement
e. Adult with a neurological need placement
f. Adult with a physical disability placement
Note: Please provide 2023/24 as an estimated or budgeted figure.
4. Please provide the proposed average percentage uplift to the weekly rate paid by the LA in nursing and residential between 2022/23 and 2023/24 for:
a. Older person's general placement
b. Older person's EMI placement
c. Adult with a learning disability placement
d. Adult with a mental health need placement
e. Adult with a neurological need placement
f. Adult with a physical disability placement
Note: Please provide the average proposed percentage uplift between 31 March 2023 and 1 April 2023
Published: 1 March 2023
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Please provide a list of any and all contact your organisation and/or staff have had with British American Tobacco, Imperial Brands, Japan Tobacco International, Philip Morris International, as well as any other domestic or transnational tobacco companies or anyone representing the tobacco industry including subsidiaries of tobacco industry. I would like this information for the period from 1 April 2021 to 20 February 2023.
Contact would primarily include attending or arranging meetings or functions, and responding to correspondence or phone calls. Please break down the information by:
• Tobacco company or representative's name
• Date of contact(s)
• Type of contact (meeting, email, letter, phone call, text/app message or video call, e-card or any other form of electronic communication)
• Place of contact, if relevant
• Purpose of contact
• Outcome of contact, including if no action taken I request that the information be provided electronically. I would be grateful if you could confirm in writing that you have received this request.
Published: 1 March 2023
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I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information:
• Does the Local Authority currently purchase live-in care packages? Live-in care is 24-hour care in a patient's home, living with the patient.
• What is the average price for live-in care packages?
• Please can you provide the name of the commissioner who commissions home care in the Local Authority.
• Is there an open framework for us to apply for spot purchasing or an approved provider?
Published: 1 March 2023
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We herein make a request under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and would be grateful if you could provide us with the following information:
1. The number of school employees (existing and retired staff to include teaching staff, school support staff and caretakers, etc) and ex-pupils that have pursued a claim against you for exposure to asbestos within a school in your county between 2016 and 2021;
2. The number of these claims that have been settled between 2016 and 2021; and
3. The amount of money that has been paid in settlement of these claims (with and without your authority accepting responsibility) between 2016 and 2021.
Published: 28 February 2023
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Please can you confirm how many trees have been cut down by the Council during the past 12 months and during 2022.
Published: 27 February 2023
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Please can you provide all information for the financial year 2021-2022, and from the start of financial year 2022 to 31 December 2022, for the following:
1. The total number of days during this period affected by strike action by any member of council staff or council contractors.
2. The total number of hours lost to strike action (where council staff or council contractors did not attend work).
UPDATE FOLLOWING CLARIFICATION: No - I would not like school staff to be included in these figures. Only council workers and council contractors.
Published: 24 February 2023
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1 - Please confirm whether you have appointed a Partnership Board and confirm the make-up of the same; and
2 - Please confirm whether you have written and published a strategy pursuant to s57 of the Domestic Abuse Act 2021;
and 3 - If the answer to question (2) above is yes, please confirm the date it was published and provide a copy of the strategy;
4 - If the answer to question (2) above is yes, please provide details of how you are giving effect to the strategy with reference to the statutory guidance on the same;
5 - If the answer to question (2) above is no, please provide your anticipated timescales for publication of a strategy pursuant to s57.
Published: 24 February 2023
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Please could you provide the school term dates set by your authority between the academic years 2006/07 and 2021/22? If possible, please could you:
(1) supply these dates in .csv or .xlsx (Excel) format;
(2) include the dates for each of the six half terms for each academic year;
(3) for each half term, list the 'Open' date as the first day that local authority schools were open and the 'Close' date as the last day that local authority schools were open;
(4) state that a school was 'Open' even if it is expected that all schools used that date as in INSET (in-service training) day;
(5) ignore the early May bank holidays, Easter weekend (if not in holiday time), royal events, and any other nation-wide public holidays.
If your authority has undergone boundary changes in this period, please indicate this in your response but still provide dates for the previous authority.
Published: 24 February 2023
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What was the amount spent on residential treatment for people with drug/alcohol problems in:
2013-14
2015-16
2020-21
Published: 23 February 2023