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. Learning Disabilities and Supported Living

    LD Supported Living:

     

    1.       Please complete the following table with the information requested for the last full week of April 2025

     

    Category

    Total Hours for the week

    Mean hourly rate paid

    Median hourly rate paid

    Lowest hourly rate paid

    Highest hourly rate paid

    Hours provided during the day

     

     

     

     

     

    Wake hours provided during the night

     

     

     

     

     

    Sleep-ins provided

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Residential LD Care:

     

    2.       Please complete the following table with the information requested for the last full week of April 2025

     

    Category

    Mean rate paid

    Median rate paid

    Lowest rate paid

    Highest rate paid

    Placements

     

     

     

     

     

    Current total placements today

     

     

    Nursing LD Care

     

    3.       Please complete the following table with the information requested for the last full week of April 2025

     

    Category

    Mean rate paid

    Median rate paid

    Lowest rate paid

    Highest rate paid

    Placements

     

     

     

     

     

    Current total placements today

     

     

    4.       Please provide the annual fee uplift for the current financial period.  If you have paid a bespoke uplift to different care providers or residents, please provider the average % uplift paid to providers in the period stated:

     

    (Supported Living)

    Year

    Percentage uplift

    Number of Providers receiving this uplift

    Number of Individuals receiving this uplift

    2024-25

     

     

     

     

    (Residential Care)

    Year

    Percentage uplift

    Number of Providers receiving this uplift

    Number of Individuals receiving this uplift

    2024-25

     

     

     

     

    (Residential Care with Nursing)

    Year

    Percentage uplift

    Number of Providers receiving this uplift

    Number of Individuals receiving this uplift

    2024-25

     

     

     

     

     

    5.       For the period 1st April 2024 to 31st March 2025, please provide the number of individual residents, where their contracts for the provision of LD services for both residential care or supported living were either terminated by the care provider, handed back by the care provider, or were renegotiated due to the threat or notice of termination/handing back was made by the care provider.  You should provide the number of residents this applies to and the number of care providers.

     

    6.       Please provide a copy of your 2025 to 2026 fee uplift letter that was sent to care providers. If you have not yet reported your fee uplift, please outline the Council’s timeline for publication, including any internal dates where decisions related to the offer will be made.

    Published: 9 May 2025

  2. Personal Data Access requests on CCTV

    - How many CCTV cameras does the Borough own and/or is the 'Data Controller' for?

     

    - How many of these CCTV cameras are set to record video?

     

    - How many times in the past 5 years has the Borough released recorded CCTV data to a member of the public in response to a Personal Data Access request/FOI request or similar request?

     

    - How many times in the past 5 years has the Borough released recorded CCTV data in response to a request from the courts or legal representative?

     

    - When releasing CCTV video, is it Borough policy to redact or blur out the faces of uninvolved members of the public who may have been incidentally captured on the video being released?

     

    - If so, is this video redaction ('blurring out') task carried out by Borough staff in-house or performed by an outside agency/service provider?

    Published: 9 May 2025

  3. Number of staff members in communications and communication budgets

    1. How many staff (as measured by full-time equivalents) do you employ to work on communications?

    Please include all internal and external communications including work on your website, media queries and social media.

    2. What was your communication spending for the financial year 2024/25?

    3. What was your communication spending for the financial year 2023/24?

    Published: 9 May 2025

  4. Households with children in temporary accommodation end of December 2024; and end of December 2023

    Please provide all of the data for two (2) time periods: end of December 2024; and end of December 2023

    1a. Number of households with children aged under 5 in temporary accommodation

    1b. Number of households with children (under 5) in temporary accommodation for more than 6 weeks

       

    1c. Number of households with children (under 5) in temporary accommodation for more than 6 months

       

    1d. Total number of children aged under 5 in temporary accommodation (not number of households)

     

    2a. Number of households with children aged under 5 in b

     temporary accommodation

             

    2b. Number of households with children (under 5) in b

     temporary accommodation for more than 6 weeks

              

    2c. Number of households with children (under 5) in b

     temporary accommodation for more than 6 months

     

    2d. Total number of children aged under 5 in b

     temporary accommodation (not number of households)

             

    Published: 8 May 2025

  5. Inspection and safety of bridges in the last 3 calendar years (2022, 2023, and 2024)

    Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I am requesting the following information relating to the inspection and safety of bridges managed by your council over the past three calendar years (2022, 2023, and 2024):

    1. The total number of bridges under your council’s ownership or responsibility. For this request, a bridge is defined as any structure designed to carry a road, path, or other route over a physical obstacle such as water, a railway, a road, or a valley, and with a span of 1.5 metres or more.

    2. The number of bridge inspections carried out per year (2022–2024), including a breakdown by: - General visual inspections - Principal inspections - Special inspections (e.g. following flood events or accidents)

    3. The number of bridges found to be structurally unsafe during inspections in each of the three years.

    4. Of those deemed unsafe, how many: - Were closed to traffic or pedestrians - Required immediate repairs - Are still awaiting repair as of the date of this request

    5. Any funding received or applied for from central government or other sources specifically to support bridge repair or safety enhancements during this period. Please provide the data in spreadsheet format (e.g. Excel or CSV) where possible.

    Published: 7 May 2025

  6. Section 106 and CIL funding allocated for healthcare from 2020/21-2024/25

    Please see below my FOI request.

    1. How much

    a) Section 106 funding and

    b) CIL funding allocated for healthcare is currently held unspent by the local authority?

    2. How much Section 106 funding was transferred from the local authority to Integrated Care Boards (Clinical Commissioning Groups prior to 2022) in

    a) 2024/25,

    b) 2023/24,

    c) 2022/23,

    d) 2021/22 and

    e) 2020/21?

    3. How much CIL funding was transferred from the local authority to ICBs/CCGs ) in

    a) 2024/25,

    b) 2023/24,

    c) 2022/23,

    d) 2021/22

    and e) 2020/21?

    4. How much Section 106 funding did ICBs/CCGs request to be transferred from the local authority

    a) 2024/25,

    b) 2023/24,

    c) 2022/23,

    d) 2021/22

    and e) 2020/21?

    5. How much Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) funding did ICBs/CCGs request to be transferred from the local authority in

    a) 2024/25,

    b) 2023/24,

    c) 2022/23,

    d) 2021/22

    and e) 2020/21?

    6. Since April 1, 2020, how many times has the local authority declined a request by ICBs/CCGs for the transfer of developer contributions (Section 106 or CIL funds)?

    7. For each case where the local authority declined a request for developer contributions since April 1, 2020, please provide

    a) the reason for the refusal

    b) the amount of money requested.

    Published: 7 May 2025

  7. Dog fouling data in Herefordshire March 2024 - March 2025

    Description of the information required: Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 I would like to request the following information regarding local dog waste:

    1 - The total number of dog fouling complaints that you have received in the last 12 months? (March 2024-March 2025)

    2 - How many fines/fixed penalty notices have been handed out to people for not cleaning up dog waste between March 2024-March 2025?

    3 - How many dog poo/dog waste bins do you have, as of March 2025? This includes dedicated dog poo/dog waste bins as well as public litter bins that accept dog waste.

    Published: 7 May 2025

  8. Number of complaints made by PRS (private rental sector) tenants from the beginning of 2010 - 2025

    I would like to request the number of complaints made by PRS (private rental sector) tenants regarding estate agencies, PRS landlords or property managers to this local authority from the beginning of 2010 to the present day, or as recent as the data goes.

    The data should be provided in a yearly format. I don't mind if the data is broken down by financial year. I would also like a breakdown of how many of these complaints related to discrimination per year. If this is not possible, it is fine to stick with the main request.

    Published: 7 May 2025

  9. Provision of Public Toilets

    I would like to request the following information as a freedom of information request.

    - How many public toilets are currently open in your council area and how many of these are accessible?

    - How many public toilets have been open for each of the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 and how many have been accessible?

    - How much is currently being spent on providing and maintaining public toilets in your council area and how much has been spent for each of the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024?

    - How many of the public toilets available require the public to pay to access them, how much do they charge, for this year and each of the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024?

    By public toilet I mean a toilet operated by the council which is available for the public to use.

    Published: 6 May 2025

  10. Children's Act - Commissioning strategies for the recruitment of independent visitors

    The Children Act 1989 guidance and regulations Volume 2: care planning, placement and case review dated July 2021, states that point 3.277, Local authorities should already have commissioning strategies in place for the recruitment of independent visitors.

    A) Can the council state how often the commissioning strategy document is reviewed and how this reviewing action is recorded.

    B) Does this council have a commissioning strategy for independent visitors?

    C) Please supply, publish, the commissioning strategy document.

    Published: 2 May 2025