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. Information relating to staff well being in the public sector

    1. The job title of the person/s with lead responsibility for staff wellbeing.

    2. An exhaustive list of the type of services offered to support staff wellbeing, (including employee benefits) .

    3. The names of the supplier/s used for these services.

    4. The month & year staff wellbeing services contract/s end (including extensions).

    5. How many persons you employ.

    6. Employee attrition / retention rates.

    7. Staff take up (number) by each service offered to support staff wellbeing.

    8. How much is budgeted annually for staff wellbeing (including employee benefits).

    Published: 22 October 2024

  2. SEND home-to-school transport Data for Children and Young People pre-16 & 16 to 18

    Please could you provide the following data in for the past 3 years for SEND home-to-school (HTS) transport for Children and Young People (CYP) aged pre-16 and 16 to 18:

    1. Your local authority’s expenditure on SEND home-to-school (HTS) transport for CYP aged pre-16 and 16 to 18 for the last three years by in-house vs outsourced

    2. Please list all the providers used to deliver your authority’s SEND HTS transport services for CYP aged pre-16 and 16 to 18 for the last three years 3. Total local authority actual expenditure on SEND home-to-school (HTS) transport for CYP aged pre-16 and 16 to 18 for the last three years by provider

    4. Please provide the total number of routes for SEND home-to-school (HTS) transport for CYP aged pre-16 and 16 to 18 for the last three years by provider

    Published: 22 October 2024

  3. External consultants and training firms

    I would like to make a request under the Freedom of Information Act. Please can you provide me with the spend by your organisation on external consultants and training firms in the previous 12 months or the most recent 12-month period for which the data is available. Please break down the spend by type of consultancy service or training service provided.

    Published: 22 October 2024

  4. Meetings between Herefordshire Council and Active Travel England

    I have been told that Herefordshire Council has regular meetings with Active Travel England. Please provide me with copies of the minutes of these meetings from January 2022 to date.

    Published: 18 October 2024

  5. Macadams LO communications

    1.    Agendas, minutes or notes etc. of a meeting pertaining to U71229 between BB and HC held on or about 26th or 27th August 2024. (Actually I believe the dates may have been  2nd or 3rd  September , but  as I said, on or about!)

     

    2.    Details of any financial arrangements made, promised or expected with any Landholder on U71229, to or from Mr Pearce, HC or BB, including the provision of assets.

     

    3.    Details of any promises or ‘expectations’ of the ‘management’ of any class(es) of traffic on this highway.

     

    Published: 18 October 2024

  6. Use of AI technology within the council

    Q1. How many apps and pieces of software do you provide to your employees that contain or use an AI copilot (e.g. Microsoft Copilot or SAP Joule)?

    Q2. How much money has your organisation spent on training employees (including time spent on internal training sessions, external contractors and third party courses) how to use AI for work-related activities (between 01/09/2023 and 31/08/2024)?

    Q3. Do you have a usage policy in place on the use of AI in the workplace? (for instance – have you banned all use of AI, or are employees advised to only use AI for set purposes)

    Q4. Has your organisation taken disciplinary action against employees for their use of technology – e.g. using it outside the bounds of the workplace usage policy?

    If yes, did any of the activity relate to the use of AI?

    Q5. Are your employees using any of the following AI copilots?

    • Microsoft Copilot

    • SAP Joule

    • WalkMeˣ

    • Salesforce Einstein Copilot

    • Github

    • Tabnine

    • Other

    Published: 17 October 2024

  7. Out-of-repair footbridge on public footpath FWC2C

    As highway authority, Herefordshire Council has certain important duties in this regard, including, under section 130 of the Highways Act 1980, the duty to assert and protect the rights of the public to the use and enjoyment of all highways, including public rights of way. Moreover, section 41(1) of the Act provides that “… the highway authority for a highway maintainable at the public expense are under a duty … to maintain the highway.” (Just about all public rights of way are highways maintainable at the public expense.)

    The Act does not specify any particular standard of maintenance, though case-law shows that it must be such as to enable the passage of users at all times of the year. For most of the public footpath network, where people expect to find mud and varied terrain, the standard may not be very great. But it would be idle to argue that a footbridge so badly collapsed as to have required the prohibition of its use on safety grounds somehow measured up to an appropriate standard. This, however, has been the position for some time (along with many other similar footbridges in Herefordshire) with public footpath FWC2C at Fownhope, where the footbridge at grid reference SO 60163741 has fallen into such a state as to be dangerous to use.

    Instead of repairing the path pursuant to its duties under section 41, your Council closed the bridge by an order under section 14 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984. Such orders are described by the statute as

    “temporary”, so are clearly not meant as a means of avoiding the duty to maintain. (It is not clear if this order remains in force, since such orders expire after 6 months unless renewed by the Secretary of State. If it is in force, there is no notice to advise the public that they commit a punishable offence by trying to use what is left of the bridge.)

    Published: 17 October 2024

  8. Homelessness amongst people who are granted refugee status

    I am doing some research into homelessness amongst people who are granted refugee status in the UK. I would like to request the following information under Freedom of Information. The number of people who presented as homeless where the reason for the homeless presentation was recorded as “Required to leave accommodation provided by Home Office as asylum support” in 2023. The number of people who presented as homeless where the reason for the homeless presentation was recorded as “Required to leave accommodation provided by Home Office as asylum support” so far in 2024 broken down by month. Does your Council have an estimate of the number of people who will approach you for housing/homeless support between today’s date and the end of 2024 where the reason will be “Required to leave accommodation provided by Home Office as asylum support”.

    Published: 15 October 2024

  9. Severe Weather Emergency Protocol from 01/01/2021 to 31/03/2024

    We would like to know about how you implemented the Severe Weather Emergency Protocol from 01/01/2021 to 31/03/2024.

     

    1. Dates of SWEP activation since 01/01/2021

     

    This refers to the dates of every local authority Severe Weather Emergency Protocols activation since January 1st 2021 - activation is defined as when the weather has reached a prescribed threshold that is temperature based or aligned with the Cold-Heath Alert (CHA) System leading to emergency spaces for shelter being made available for people sleeping rough.

     

    2. Length of activation

     

    This refers to the duration of the SWEP activation. Please answer in hours. If accurate data on duration is not available, please answer to the nearest day (enter 24 hours for roughly one day, 48 hours for roughly two days etc).

     

    3. Total number of emergency spaces made available under SWEP

     

    This refers to the total number of spaces (including bed spaces and sit ups) made available under the Severe Weather Emergency protocols in your local authority area.

     

    4. Number of emergency spaces made available under SWEP specifically for young people

     

    This refers to the total number of spaces (including bed spaces and sit ups) that are specifically made available under SWEP to young people aged 16-25.

     

    5. Number of emergency spaces made available under SWEP specifically for groups defined as priority need in legislation

     

    This refers to the total number of spaces (including bed spaces and sit ups) that are specifically made available under SWEP to all peoples defined as priority need*

     

    Published: 15 October 2024

  10. Current Contracts

    Please provide me with the following information: Details of all contracts your authority currently holds with any of the following companies: - Celotex - Kingspan - Arconic - Arconic Architectural Products SAS - Saint-Gobain - Exova - Warringtonfire - Harley Facades - Rydon - Real Group For each contract held with any of the above, please list when the contract was awarded, its value, its purpose and when the contract is due to expire.

    Published: 14 October 2024