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. Software control

    Please find attached document relating to version control.

    "It does not apply to software control, which follows a different established convention."

    Please can you provide your policy/document relating to software control.

    Clarification: I can confirm request is relation to your version control in software.

    Published: 9 January 2024

  2. Latest estimate for the cost of Hereford bypass

    Hereford Council supports a new bypass for Hereford. Please let me have the latest estimate for the cost of this bypass.

    Published: 9 January 2024

  3. Funding for free entitlement for 2, 3 and 4 year old's for financial year 2022/23

    FOI request - Local Authority funding for free entitlement for two, three and four-year-olds

    Financial year 2022/23

    Did you have an underspend in the early years block for funded places at the end of 2022/23? Yes/no.

    If yes, please give amount of underspend.

    OR:

    Did you have an overspend in the early years block for funded places at the end of 2022/23? Yes/no.

    If yes please give amount of overspend.

    What actions, if any, were agreed relating to this underspend or overspend?

    For example, we used our underspend to offset a deficit in the high needs block, or the overspend will be recovered from funding rates in future years etc.

    Has your early years block been subject to an in-year adjustment by the Department for Education? If so, was this a positive or negative adjustment and how much was it?

    For example, the DfE adjusted our early years block by +/- £200,000 before 01 April 2023

    Does your answer to Q1 or 2 above factor in this adjustment?

    For example, a £40,000 overspend was recorded after a -£200,000 adjustment.

    Has your 2022/23 early years block been subject to an adjustment by the Department for Education since 1 April 2023 and now? If so, was this a positive or negative adjustment and how much was it?

    For example, the DfE adjusted our early years block by +/- £200,000 after 01 April 2023.

    Does your answer to Q1 or 2 above include any adjustment?

    Under the pass-through regulations, what percentage of your budget for funded three and four-year-olds did you pass through to providers in 2022/23?

    Published: 9 January 2024

  4. Equal pay claims

    This is a request for information according to the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Please note there are three parts to my request.

    1. How many equal pay claims have been made against your council in the time period between 31 December 2018 and 29 December 2023.

    2. Please share the cost of claims closed/settled with compensation paid for successful claims in the last five years (31 December 2018 and 29 December 2023) in relation to equal pay claims. Please include the following information in the table: Compensation paid Defence costs paid Claimant Costs Paid Total Paid

    3. What is your council's current estimated equal pay liability?

    Published: 8 January 2024

  5. Pothole Compensation

    from 2010 to present (Date of incident): The top 10 most expensive compensation pay outs (total fees the council is paying out) related to a pothole incident for the roads you cover (this could be car damage, personal injury etc.). So can I have where and when they took place, and how much was paid out please.

    Published: 5 January 2024

  6. Translation, Interpretation and language services costs

    Please provide me with the following information for the financial years 2020/2021, 2021/22, 2022/23:

    The amount spent by the council on translation, interpretation and language services in all areas of council competence, including:

    Primary and secondary schools;

    adult social care services and child social care services;

    the provision of any social housing for which it has responsibility;

    libraries;

    recycling and waste collection;

    transport;

    and other area in which such expenditure has been made.

    If, for whatever reason, you are unable to provide the information for a certain facet of your operations please highlight which information cannot be disclosed and continue to disclose the rest of the information.

    Published: 5 January 2024

  7. Contracted out trial for dog fouling and littering

    I should like to know if the contracted out trial for dog fouling and litter actually occurred. I can find no mention of this matter after around April 2023.

    If this trial has happened, who is the Agency involved and:-

    how many fines have been issued broken down into Dog matters and litter issues.

    Published: 5 January 2024

  8. Expenditure and Young People's services

    I am writing with a Freedom of Information request with regards to expenditure on children and young people's services.

    Please can you provide the information detailed below, in both the table, and the additional questions underneath this.

    1) What are the counts for the below items over the specified financial years?

    NB - this is formatted as a table but has been lost in the HTML of the online form.

    COLUMNS:

    2016/17 2017/18 2018/19 2019/20 2020/21 2021/22 2022/23

    ROWS:

    Overall number of council-ran youth centres in local authority

    Overall number of youth centres in local authority run by other organisations

    Overall number of directly employed youth workers and youth support workers (Head count)

    Overall number of directly employed youth workers and youth support workers (FTE)

    2) As part of the Section 251 Outturn submitted to Department for Education for the 2022/23 financial year, which budget line did your local authority include expenditure on Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) programme?

    (e.g., 2.4.1 (Other specific grants); 3.5.2 Targeted services for young people)

    Please specify if this changed between 2021/22 and 2022/23 financial years.

    3) Did your local authority receive any of the Youth Investment Fund from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport?

    a. Yes/no

    If Yes:

    b. How much money was received?

    c. Which Phase was this as part of? Phase 1 launched in January 2022 for small-scale projects; Phase 2 launched in August 2022

    d. What project(s) was YIF used for in your local authority?

    e. Was this a new-build or refurbishment/renovation of existing space?

    f. Was this funding included as part of your Section 251 Out turn statement to DfE? If so, which budget line was this attributed to, and in which financial year?

    Published: 3 January 2024

  9. Organisation's latest telecommunications infrastructure contract positions

    I am reaching out with a request for information regarding the organisation's latest telecommunications infrastructure contract positions.

    Please see below for full scope of information required:

    1) Information regarding your Wider Area Network (WAN)

    • Incumbent

    • Contract End Date

    • WAN Contract Value

    • Number of sites

    • WAN Annual Spend/Revenue

    2) Information regarding Mobiles:

    • Incumbent

    • Contract End Date

    • Mobile sims/devices Contract Value

    • Number of users

    • Device Type

    • Latest Device Refresh Date

    • Mobile annual spend

    • MDM type if any

    3) Annual Telecoms Spend/Revenue (2022/2023)

    Published: 3 January 2024

  10. Copy of policy for Organisational Information Model

    Please find attached document relating to version control.

    "The Organisational Information Model details common metadata which should be applied to help with this. For version control, metadata should be the version number and the version status."

    Please can you provide your policy/document on Organisational Information Model.

    Published: 3 January 2024