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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Part 1 (a) The total number of adults in each local authority who are placed outside the local authority receiving care/support with a learning difficulty.
(b) The total number of adults in each local authority who are placed outside the local authority receiving care/support with a mental health disorder.
(c) The total number of adults in each local authority who are placed outside the local authority receiving care/support with complex needs.
Part 2 If available, please could the above information for parts 1a, 1b and 1c also be provided by calendar month in 2022. Format Please could the above information please be provided in Excel or CSV format.
Published: 20 January 2023
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Please could you answer the following questions in relation to your Local Education Authority:-
1. How many children/young people within your Local Authority have been awarded and currently access Personal Budgets for Education (Jan 23)?
2. How many of the Personal Budgets for Education currently accessed have been provided as part of an Education Otherwise Than At/In School or College (EOTAS(C)/EOTIS(C)) provision described in their Education Health and Care Plan (Jan 23)?
3. How many of the Personal Budgets for Education currently accessed have been awarded to children/young people who are being Electively Home Educated (EHE) (Jan 23)?
4. How many of the Personal Budgets for Education currently being accessed are awarded in the form of Direct Payments to families (Jan 23)?
5. What is the total annual cost of Personal Budgets for Education within your Local Authority (Jan 23)?
6. What is the total annual cost of Personal Budgets for Education allocated as Direct Payments to families within your Local Authority (Jan 23)?
Published: 20 January 2023
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1. Number of hours of EHCP OT provision commissioned annually
2. Number of hours of EHCP OT provision that is unfulfilled at this current moment
3. Number of children waiting for OT assessments to form their EHCP
4. What proportion of your organisation's annual requirement for EHCP OT provision is delivered by an outsource independent provider?
5. If you commission an independent provider to deliver the OT element of EHCPS' on your behalf, please can you advise what commissioning mechanism you use:
a. Through frameworks
b. Direct relationships
c. Preferred Supplier lists
d. Other (please elaborate)
6. Where is your framework published?
7. Who are your current Paediatric preferred suppliers for providing EHCP OT provisions
a. Name of supplier
b. Cost per assessment
c. Cost per treatment session
d. Travel and mileage costs
8. Do you have a ceiling price for commissioning occupational therapy EHCP OT provision?
9. If yes, please give indicate costs for:
a. Cost per assessment
b. Cost per treatment session
c. Travel and mileage costs
10. Who is the main contact/team responsible for EHCP provision and allocation of therapy?
a. Name
b. Job title
c. Email
d. Telephone number
Published: 20 January 2023
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Under The Animal Welfare (Licensing of Activities Involving Animals) (England) Regulations 2018 you will have recently received an application for a licence to provide or arrange for the provision of boarding for dogs from Richard Evans for New Barns Kennels, Norton, Bromyard. Can you please kindly provide the following information:
1. Confirm that Mr. Richard Evans is the Licence holder.
2. Date that his latest application was made.
3. Number of years that he has requested for the licence to run.
4. Number of dogs that he has asked to be accommodated for in years 2021, 2022 and 2023.
5. On the application form (3.12) it asks "how do you propose to minimise disturbance from noise?" What is the response?
6.On the application form (8.1) it asks "additional information which is required or may be relevant to the application" What is the response?
7. Since the new kennel block has been opened at New Barns kennels what grades has the kennels achieved upon LA inspections.
8. Provide a brief description of your grading system for explanation of question 7.
Published: 20 January 2023
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I would be most grateful if you would provide me, under the Freedom of Information Act, details in respect to the contract below.
I have copied the details of the Sexual Health Service contract from Tenders Electronic Daily below:
Reference number: DN363738
Description: Herefordshire Council is seeking to tender a new countywide prevention focused integrated sexual health service incorporating, open access provision of sexual health services for all people who have sexual health and contraception needs in Herefordshire County. The service will be procured under a single contract to be delivered by a lead provider. The lead provider will be required to work in partnership with or sub contract to other organisations with relevant expertise to deliver services throughout the community that reduce health inequalities relating to vulnerable adults and young people including looked after children, minority ethnic groups and sex workers. The service will also seek to target vulnerable and high-risk populations working towards better provision of key services in in community settings. The details we require are:
• What are the contractual performance KPI's for this contract?
• Suppliers who applied for inclusion on each framework/contract and were successful & not successful at the PQQ & ITT stages
• Actual spend on this contract/framework (and any sub lots), from the start of the contract to the current date
• Start date & duration of framework/contract?
• Could you please provide a copy of the service/product specification given to all bidders for when this contract was last advertised?
• Is there an extension clause in the framework(s)/contract(s) and, if so, the duration of the extension?
• Has a decision been made yet on whether the framework(s)/contract(s) are being either extended or renewed?
• Who is the senior officer (outside of procurement) responsible for this contract?
Published: 20 January 2023
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I should be most grateful if you would disclose:
1. the average cost of each Looked-After Child for 2021-22
2. the average cost of each Looked-After Child for Q1 and Q2 for 2022-23 (explain how calculated) under the following subheadings only: *In-House Fostering (excluding Staying Put) *External Fostering *Residential
Published: 18 January 2023
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Regarding S106 agreements granted from 1st January 2005 and 31st December 2010, please provide the following information:
• Funds received
• Funds allocated
• Funds spent, and on what
• Funds unspent
• Funds repaid Please provide this information in an accessible digital format.
Published: 18 January 2023
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Please provide me with the following information, under Freedom of Information:
-A copy of a review into safeguarding at the John Kyrle High School and Sixth Form Centre, as carried out during the 2021-22 academic year by the education consultant George Craig.
-A copy of a review of governance at the John Kyrle High School and Sixth Form Centre, as carried out by the education consultant Denis Barry.
If Herefordshire County Council has a copy of either or both of these reports, please release them, with suitable redactions, under FOI.
Published: 18 January 2023
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This is a new request for new information only. It is not a repeated request.
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 1/11/22 to the day of your reply or as close as possible.
The name of the team responsible varies but exists within all County Councils, London Boroughs, Unitary & Metropolitan District Councils.
Team names:
* Deputyship
* Appointeeship
* Adult social care
* Client Finance Team
* Protection of Property
* Financial Assessment
* Other team name whereby Council official(s) were charged with handling the financial affairs of the (now deceased) person
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: 18 January 2023
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I would be grateful if you could establish for me, under the Freedom of Information Act how many properties in the boundaries of Hereford Council:-
A. Have applied for help under the Keep Herefordshire Warm scheme.
B. How many have been accepted following the council survey assessment.
C. How many have been referred to the contractors.
D. How many following the Contractor survey assessment have had no further communication as to what could be done OR
E. Received no communication as to why nothing could be done.
F. Have successfully had upgrading completed.
In the mean time, presumably the relevant contracted agencies are drawing down precious government finance intended to finance a project to establish what sort of properties and what sort of improvements might best improve sustainable warmth in Hereford Housing stock, or, if not why not.
Published: 18 January 2023