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. 2022 thematic review of six premature deaths for the Herefordshire Safeguarding Adults Board

    Hello, in line with the Freedom Of Information Act, please could you provide me with the following information:

    In March 2022 Professor Michael Preston-Shoot produced a thematic review of six premature deaths, for the Herefordshire Safeguarding Adults Board.

    https://www.herefordshiresafeguardingboards.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/HSAB-Thematic-review-Premature-Deaths-Adults-Review.pdf

    As part of this, he produced 12 recommendations.

    1) For each of these, please could you us whether they have now been implemented, and provide a brief summary as to how.

    2) If they have not, please could provide an explanation as to why, and a timescale as to when they will be?

    Published: 26 March 2025

  2. Alleged planning breaches reported in the last 12 months

    Ref: FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT REQUESTS F012024/01814 & F012024/01987

    Further to my FOI requests, dated 29/10/24 and 28/11/24, and your responses to the same, I wish to follow-up with two additional questions.

    1) In the last 12 months, how many enforcement notices has Herefordshire Council issued, requiring demolition or alteration of buildings, deemed to be in contravention of planning permission?

    2) Has Herefordshire Council ever issued an enforcement notice, requiring demolition or alteration of a building, deemed to be in contravention of planning permission?

    Published: 26 March 2025

  3. Numbers of multi-sensory impairment teachers and residential respite and holiday clubs

    Freedom of Information Request: Numbers of multi-sensory impairment teachers and residential respite and holiday clubs

    This request is made under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

    I would like to request an answer to the following questions:

    MSI Teachers:

    1a) Does the Local Authority currently employ any multi-sensory impairment teachers or practitioners?

    If yes to question 1a)

    1b) Please indicate how many employees have these roles.

    1c) Please indicate whether the roles are full or part time.

    Residential respite and holiday clubs:

    2a) How many residential respite services does your local authority commission to support disabled children under the age of 18?

    2b) If yes to 2a) In 2024, how many disabled children under the age of 18 accessed residential respite services?

    2c) How many holiday clubs does your local authority commission to support disabled children under the age of 18?

    2d) if yes to 2c), In 2024, how many disabled children under the age of 18 accessed holiday clubs?

    Please provide all relevant documents in an email or an Excel spreadsheet.

    Published: 26 March 2025

  4. Care Act help to keep homes habitable for adults

    1) Can you confirm if you have a policy and procedure in place that allows Adult Social workers to ignore the Care Act requirement to help disabled, bed bound clients maintain a "Habitable home", see LGSCO decision:

    https://www.lgo.org.uk/information-centre/news/2020/sep/council-fails-to-help-care-users-maintain-their-home

    2) Can you please confirm how many disabled, bed bound clients have no Care Act Package in place that includes help to keep the home habitable as of February 2025? (I know of at least two).

    3) Can you provide copies of all your policies and procedures that expressly require you to identify and support someone to maintain their home in a habitable condition, and evidence of how you follow those instructions.

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    CLARIFICATION FROM REQUESTER:

    For clarity I am seeking information on how many eligible clients with care needs needs, that need help to keep their Home habitable as defined by the Care Act and Health and Social Care Regulations 2008 are having this need recorded on a care plan?

    The number of years I require the information for will be determined by the 18 hour rule.

    Please be aware the service area are well aware of what help to keep the home habitable is as it is set out in the relevant regulations and acts.

    Can I also request a copy of the Equality Impact Assessments that should accompany any policies you provide and a list of when any out of date policies will be reviewed?

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    FURTHER CLARIFICATION FROM REQUESTER FOR Q2:

    I simply mean Care Act "Package of Care" to support identified needs including needs to keep their Home habitable (domiciliary care)

    Published: 26 March 2025

  5. Number of transactions made through RingGo and JustPark 2021-2025

    1) How many transactions were made through RingGo in January (only) 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024?

    2) How many transactions were made by JustPark in January (only) 2025?

    3) How many transactions were made through RingGo between 1 Feb and 15 Feb 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024?

    4) How many transactions were made by JustPark between 1 Feb and 15 Feb 2025?

    5) The total number of transactions in all car parks from all payments in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and Jan 2025 to 15 Feb 2025.

    6) The total transactions made at Hereford payment meters, or via Just Park (please show the split) after 12 noon on Saturday 8 Feb 2025, and the total value of those transactions.

    Please note, I would like the income made from the council during the free parking event as both the app and meters were fully operational throughout.

    Published: 25 March 2025

  6. Complaints received regarding bin collections between the 1st November 2024 and 31st December 2024

    I would like to request data under the Freedom of Information Act regarding complaints about bin collections.

    - Can you please provide me with the number of missed bin collections reported to your authority between the 1st of November 2024 and the 31st of December 2024?

    - The number of complaints your authority has received regarding bin collections between the 1st of November 2024 and the 31st of December 2024.

    Published: 25 March 2025

  7. Planning policy criteria for Class A5 hot food takeaways

    1. If your local authority has planning criteria which determine the acceptability of planning applications for new Class A5 (or "Sui generis") hot food takeaway outlets, contained in an adopted or interim policy or guidance document (such as a Local Plan, Supplementary Planning Document, or Development Management Plan), please can you send us a copy of this document. Example criteria include traffic and parking considerations, the requirement of a health impact assessment, preventing high concentration of outlets in certain areas, exclusion zones around schools, and restricted opening hours.

    2. If your adopted policy or guidance document superseded any previous versions that also contained Class A5 (or "Sui generis") hot food takeaway outlets planning criteria, please also send us the previous editions of this document.

    3. If you no longer have an adopted policy or guidance document that contains Class A5 (or "Sui generis") hot food takeaway outlets planning criteria, but these criteria were contained in any superseded documents that are now out-of-date, please send us a copy of these out-of-date documents.

     

    4. If you have never had an adopted policy or guidance document that contained Class A5 (or "Sui generis") hot food takeaway outlets planning criteria, please let us know. In these cases, if there are any current HFT planning policies included in a consultation document/draft Local Plan that has not been adopted yet, please send us a copy of this document and confirm its date of publication.  

    5. If you have answered YES to questions (1), (2) or (3), please can you confirm the date(s) that the relevant policies actually came into effect and/or stopped being applied, being as exact as possible.

    Published: 25 March 2025

  8. Repairs carried out and compliance information within your corporate buildings for 2024

    I am writing to request some information regarding the repairs carried out in your buildings and information on compliance within your corporate buildings. As part of our ongoing efforts to benchmark and improve our processes, we are keen to understand the scale and management structure of your compliance / repair operations.

    1. Number of maintenance office staff involved in the day to day running of the maintenance team.

    2. Number of trade operatives and designations who carry out the works.

    3. Number of day-to-day repairs completed in 2024 by internal operatives.

    4. Number of day-to-day repairs completed in 2024 by external contractors.

    5. Number of office staff within the Compliance team.

    6. Number of trade operatives and designations within the Compliance team.

    7. Number of inspections completed in 2024 by internal operatives.

    8. Number of inspections completed in 2024 by external contractors.

    9. A list of any maintenance KPIs / the measures and the AVG monthly outcome for 2024.

    10. A list of any compliance KPIs / the measures and the AVG monthly outcome for 2024.

    11. Number of compliance remedials raised following inspections in 2024.

    12. If available a KPI on remedials raised to completed in time during 2024.

    13. Number of buildings in the reactive maintenance portfolio.

    14. Number of buildings you carry out compliance inspections.

    Published: 24 March 2025

  9. Bin Lorries

    Please could I request the following information Under the Freedom of Information Act:

    * The number of breakdown incidents for your bin lorries used by your council in each of the following years:

    a) 2019, b) 2020, c) 2021, d) 2022, e) 2023, f) 2024

    * The average age of the bin lorries used by your council

    * The age of the oldest bin lorry used by your council

    * The cost of insuring the bin lorries used by your council in each of the following years: a) 2019, b) 2020, c) 2021, d) 2022, e) 2023, f) 2024

    * The amount of money spent on repairing and maintaining the bin lorries your council used in each of the following years: a) 2019, b) 2020, c) 2021, d) 2022, e) 2023, f) 2024

    Please could you provide this information by email, preferably in a spreadsheet.

    Published: 21 March 2025

  10. Unauthorised school absences due to term-time holidays in 2022, 2023 and 2024

    1. Please provide the total number of fines issued for unauthorised school absences due to term-time holidays in each of the last 3 calendar years (2022, 2023, 2024). Please break this down by month. If you don’t have a monthly breakdown, please provide a yearly total.

    2. Please provide the total revenue generated from these fines in each of the last 3 calendar years (2022, 2023, 2024).

    Published: 21 March 2025