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. Floating support service

    Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I would like to request the following information.

    1. Do you currently provide or commission a floating support service*?

    2. If yes, what was the budgetary allocation for each of the services in each financial year back to 2020-21

    3. If yes, how many people were supported under each of the service(s) in each financial year back to 2020-21

    4. If no, have you previously provided/ commissioned a floating support service and which year did you discontinue it (include details of multiple services if this applies)

    a) Please state why the service(s) was discontinued

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    *or otherwise named housing-related support/outreach service aimed helping tenants to live independently in their own community based accommodation

    If it is not possible to provide the information requested due to the information exceeding the cost of compliance limits identified in Section 12, please provide advice and assistance, under your Section 16 obligations, as to how I can refine my request to be included in the scope of the Act.

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    Published: 17 August 2026

  2. Compensation for damage caused by council-owned trees

    Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, please provide the following information concerning claims alleging that trees owned by the council, or situated on council-owned land, caused subsidence or other damage to property.

    Please include claims handled by the council’s insurers where this information is held by or on behalf of the council.

    For each of the financial years 2023/24, 2024/25 and 2025/26, please provide:

    1. The number of claims received during that financial year.

    2. The total amount paid in compensation or settlement during that financial year.

    For the FIVE largest compensation or settlement payments made during the three-year period, please provide:

    A. The financial year in which the payment was made

    B. The amount paid

    C. The type of damage alleged

    D. The species of tree involved, where recorded

    E. Whether the tree was felled, pruned or retained

    F. A brief existing anonymised description of the claim, where held

    Please include payments relating to claims received before the requested period if the payment itself was made during the requested period.

    Published: 17 August 2026

  3. Skip licence application outcomes

    Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, please provide information about applications to place builders' skips on the public highway under Section 139 of the Highways Act 1980.

    For each of the financial years 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25 and 2025/26, please provide:

    1. The number of initial skip licence or permit applications received.

    2. The number of initial applications granted, meaning a licence or permit was issued.

    3. The number of initial applications refused.

    4. The reason(s) why these applications were refused (if held)

    5. The number given another outcome, such as withdrawn, cancelled, invalid or incomplete. Where readily available, please divide these figures by the outcome categories recorded on your system.

    Please exclude licence extensions and renewals, skips placed entirely on private land, scaffolding licences and other highways permits.

    Please count each application once. If your system uses different outcome categories, please provide the figures under the categories you use and briefly explain their meaning.

    Published: 17 August 2026

  4. School Closure Contingency

    1. Does the Council / your authority hold a contingency plan for the permanent closure of any school(s) within its area (e.g. due to falling rolls, financial unsustainability, structural/building issues, or other reasons)?

    2. If such a plan exists, please provide a copy of the document, or if exemptions apply, a summary of its contents.

    3. How many schools within your authority currently have, or have had in the last five years, a formal contingency or closure plan in place?

    4. Please specify whether these plans relate to maintained schools, academies, or both.

    Published: 17 August 2026

  5. Street light maintenance 2025/6

    Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I would like to request information regarding street lighting maintenance, reports, and replacement timelines within your local authority area.

    Specifically, please provide answers and data for the following questions for the financial year 2025/6.

    1) How many total individual reports or notifications of non-functioning, damaged, or faulty street lights (or bulbs/lanterns requiring replacement) were received by the council?

    2) How many of these reports resulted in a complete bulb/lantern replacement versus a full column (post) replacement?

    3) What was the average time taken (in calendar days or working days) from the initial report being logged to a field technician attending/replacing a faulty bulb or lantern unit?

    4) What was the longest recorded single delay (in days) to repair/replace a reported street light bulb during this period?

    Published: 17 August 2026

  6. Households accommodated under section 17 of the Children Act 1989.

    Freedom of Information request: Households accommodated under section 17 of the Children Act 1989.

    These could be households provided with accommodation under section 17 for a range of reasons, including, but not limited to:

      *  because they did not qualify for accommodation under the 1985 and 1996 Housing Acts
             because they were not eligible for assistance (this could be because they have No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF))
      *   because they were eligible for assistance but were found to be intentionally homeless.

    I would only like to collect information on the number of families that are currently in housing provided under section 17 of the Children Act.

    Please note we are not asking for information on households housed in Temporary Accommodation under housing or homelessness legislation. Similarly, we are not asking for information on households housed under section 20 of the Children Act.

    The power to accommodate families under section 17 falls on the relevant social services authority in which the child is present. In a two-tier area, this is the purview of the relevant upper-tier authority (i.e. county council). We are sending this request to you as your authority is the relevant social services authority for the area.

    1.  The number of households living in accommodation provided by the local authority under section 17 of the Children Act 1989 on 30th June 2026 (or most recent data available)


    2.  (if available) The total number of adults living in these households on 30th June 2026 (or most recent data available)


    3.  (if available) The total number of children living in these households on 30th June 2026 (or most recent data available) NB this number may include 16-17 year olds accommodated under Section 17.

     

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    NB I am NOT requesting the number of children or households assisted under SECTION 20 powers.

    I understand that many authorities will hold some but not all the information requested. Where this is the case, we would appreciate it if you could provide the information that you do hold and to mark others as 'Not available'. For ease, please place the requested figures into the table below:

     

    Total number of households

    Total number of adults in these households

    Total number of children in these households

    1. Living in accommodation provided by the local authority under section 17 of the Children Act 1989 on 30th June 2026 (or most recent data available)

     

     

     

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    CLARIFICATION

    We would define a household along the lines set out here - i.e either one person living alone or a group of people, not necessarily related, living at the same address with common housekeeping. All of the examples cited below would be considered households for these purposes.

    We are asking specifically for the number of households with children who are accommodated by the local authority under Section 17. We are not asking about any households (including unaccompanied children) who are accommodated under other powers, such as Section 20.

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    Published: 14 August 2026

  7. 2023 - 2025 Looked after Children statistic

    FOI Request Form

    Instructions for completion of the form:

    - Please provide recorded local authority data for the period 2023–2025 where available.

    - Enter “0” where the answer is nil.

    - If data cannot be provided, please explain using the question at the end of each section (e.g. data not recorded or unable to retrieve).

    - If you can not answer all questions please answer what you can or prioritise Q4

    • Looked After Children with Immigration Status

    In the period 2023 – 2025 inclusive, for each calendar year, please share the number of Looked After Children who had immigration status recorded as an issue of concern, including (but not limited to): no current immigration status, unresolved or insecure immigration status, or ongoing immigration or nationality applications.

    For the avoidance of doubt, I am not requesting data on all children in your care with any form of leave to remain or citizenship.

    Please exclude children who are British citizens or who hold indefinite leave to remain, unless their cases involved previous periods of irregular or unresolved status during the reporting period.

    If it would threaten the privacy of any individual to report numbers year on year, please report for the full three-year basis (2023 – 2025 inclusive).

    Number of Looked After children with immigration status

    2023 2024 2025

    Number of Looked After children with NO immigration status

    2023 2024 2025

    • Number of Looked After Children with Family and/or Connected Persons abroad in the period 2023 – 2025

    Did you explore family and/or connected persons overseas as potential carers for a child in your care?

    Yes No

    • Number of children placed with Family and/or Connected Persons abroad

    In the period 2023 – 2025, for each calendar year, how many children were actually with Family and/or Connected Persons outside England or outside the UK? If it would threaten the privacy of any individual to report numbers year on year, please report for the full three-year basis (2023 – 2025 inclusive). If your response is ‘nil’, please use ‘0’.

    Placed outside of England but within UK

    2023 2024 2025

    Placed outside of the UK

    2023 2024 2025

    • Court orders used for placement overseas

    For each calendar year, between 2023 – 2025, what number and types of court orders were used to place children with Family and/or Connected Persons outside of the UK?

    If it would threaten the privacy of any individual to report numbers year on year, please report for the full three-year basis (2023 – 2025 inclusive). If your response is ‘nil’, please use ‘0’.

    No order but child placed outside UK

    2023 2024 2025

    ICO

    2023 2024 2025

    CAO

    2023 2024 2025

    Special Guardianship Order

    2023 2024 2025

    Adoption Order

    2023 2024 2025

    Other Order

    2023 2024 2025

    • Post-placement support for overseas placements

    Has your local authority made any financial support payments to kinship carers living overseas in the past three calendar years (2023, 2024, 2025)? This is regardless of order type and could include: section 17 payments, kinship allowance, SG support, discretionary welfare payments etc. Please list countries of residence of the formerly LAC.

    Yes No

    If yes, to which countries were payments made?

    Published: 14 August 2026

  8. Council Estimates of U16 Population Herefordshire

    Please provide Herefordshire councils estimates for the number of under 16's, or under 18's if that’s how you the council records, living in Herefordshire in

    1. 2019

    2. 2020

    3. 2021

    4. 2022

    5. 2023

    6. 2024

    7. 2025

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    With respect I asked for the councils estimates.

    The council has supplied links to other govt websites.

    I ask the council answers the question.

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    Published: 14 August 2026

  9. Paid Invoices between 2021 - 2026

    Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, please provide the following information concerning the payment of supplier invoices by your organisation.

    A. Invoices paid

    For each of the following financial years:

    * 2021/22

    * 2022/23

    * 2023/24

    * 2024/25

    * 2025/26

    Please provide:

    1. The total number of supplier invoices paid during the financial year.

    2. The number or percentage of those invoices paid:

    a. Within 30 calendar days

    b. Between 31 and 60 calendar days

    c. On or after day 61

    3. The total amount of statutory late-payment interest or compensation paid to suppliers during the financial year.

    Please use the payment-performance figures and methodology already held or used by your organisation, including any figures prepared to meet statutory or published prompt-payment reporting requirements.

    Where only percentages, rather than invoice numbers, are held for question 2, please provide the percentages held. There is no need to calculate invoice numbers manually.

    B. Outstanding invoices

    Using figures as at the end of the most recent completed calendar month, please provide:

    1. The total number of supplier invoices that were still unpaid after their payment due date had passed.

    2. Of those overdue invoices, the number that were:

    a. Between 1 and 30 calendar days overdue

    b. Between 31 and 60 calendar days overdue

    c. Between 61 and 90 calendar days overdue

    d. More than 90 calendar days overdue

    3. If available through a standard report from your finance system, the total value, including VAT, of all supplier invoices that were overdue at that date.

    For this section, an invoice should only be counted as overdue if the payment due date recorded in your finance system had already passed.

    Please exclude invoices recorded as formally disputed, invalid, cancelled or awaiting approval where this can be done through your existing reporting system without manually reviewing individual invoices.

    If these categories cannot readily be excluded, please provide the figures held and briefly confirm what is included.

    Please provide the information in spreadsheet or CSV format where possible.

    Published: 14 August 2026

  10. Housing & affordable housing completions 2010/11 - 2025/26

    Housing Completions

    1. The number of affordable housing completions in your Council’s authority area broken down on a per annum basis for the period between 2010/11 to 2025/26.

    2. The number of total housing completions in your Council’s authority area broken down on a per annum basis for the period between 2010/11 to 2025/26.

    Published: 14 August 2026