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. Children's Placements 2024-25

    Please provide the following information under the FOIA.

    1/ Please provide the highest annual amount paid in the 2024/25 financial year for an individual child's placement in either children’s homes, unregulated homes or residential special schools?

    Please state the nature of the placement e.g. children’s home. Please provide the total annual cost if the child has been placed in multiple placements.

    Please include all costs including all care and education costs, per child placement.

    2/ Please provide the highest weekly amount paid in the 2024/25 financial year for an individual child's placement in either children’s homes, unregulated homes or residential special schools? Please state the nature of the placement e.g. children’s home. Please include all costs including all care and education costs, per child placement.

    3/ Please provide the highest weekly amount paid in the financial year up to the date this request is supplied - for an individual child's placement in either children’s homes, unregulated homes or residential special schools? Please state the nature of the placement e.g. children’s home. Please include all costs including all care and education costs, per child placement. If known, please provide any mitigating reasons for any high costs (e.g. 4-to-1 care) if you believe it to be relevant. Please provide the response in the response template, if possible.

    If you are responding to this request on behalf of multiple local authorities, please provide data for all of them with a breakdown per local authority.

    Published: 10 April 2026

  2. Broadlands Lane Non-Enforcement and Failure to Protect Residents

    I would therefore like a substantive response to the following: 1. What immediate enforcement action will now be taken on Broadlands Lane?

    3. What monitoring has been undertaken of Broadlands Lane specifically since September 2025?

    4. What use is being made of any camera or traffic data gathered in connection with the surrounding school traffic measures?

    6. What specific steps will now be taken to stop Broadlands Lane functioning as an overflow car park for the surrounding education cluster? To be clear, I am not seeking another generic acknowledgement or restatement of policy. I am seeking a practical service response to a longstanding and worsening failure of enforcement.

    Published: 10 April 2026

  3. FOI Council Spend on Climate-related posts

    Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, please provide the following recorded information.

    From the current financial year's budgeted figures and the prior three years outturn (i.e. years ended 31st March 2023, 31st March 2024 and 31st March 2025:

    1. Climate-related posts

    The number of posts (headcount, and FTE where recorded) employed by the council with job titles that include any of the following terms: Climate; Net Zero; Sustainability; Carbon; Emissions; Environmental Sustainability; Climate Change; Climate Action; Climate Policy; Climate Programme; Climate Project; Climate Data; Climate Reporting; Climate Adaptation; Climate Resilience; Energy and Climate; Sustainable Procurement; Green Finance; Green; Climate crisis; Climate emergency.

    2. Cost of those posts

    The total employment cost for the posts identified in Question 1, including salary and employer on-costs (e.g. pension and National Insurance), as recorded by the council.

    UPDATE: I am seeking the actual costs of the occupied posts, preferably for financial year 2024/25.

    3. External consultants

    The total amount paid during the same financial year to external consultants, companies, or contractors where the expenditure is recorded under any cost centre, project code, budget line, or purchase description that includes one or more of the following terms: Climate; Net Zero; Sustainability; Carbon; Emissions; Environmental Sustainability; Climate Change; Climate Action; Climate Policy; Climate Programme; Climate Project; Climate Data; Climate Reporting; Climate Adaptation; Climate Resilience; Energy and Climate; Sustainable Procurement; Green Finance; Green; Climate crisis; Climate emergency.

    This should include, but not be limited to, expenditure coded to professional services, consultancy, advisory services, or specialist support. If the council does not record expenditure in this way, please provide the closest equivalent recorded information held (for example, totals by relevant cost centre or project).

    Please provide the information requested above in the following table format, where held: Financial Year Job Title Staff Costs including on-costs (£) Headcount Consultant Spend

    Published: 10 April 2026

  4. LADO referrals - nursery settings

    I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Please provide the following information for the last five financial years (2020-2025), broken down by year:

    1. The number of LADO referrals, concerns and allegations relating to nursery settings

    2. Of these, how many allegations were recorded as substantiated

    3. How many of the referrals/allegations resulted in any action recorded by the LADO (e.g., internal disciplinary action, referral to Ofsted or DBS, or police involvement).

    I am requesting numerical totals only, and I am not seeking any personal data. If you are encountering practical difficulties in complying with this request, please contact me as soon as possible (in line with your section 16 duty to advise and assist requesters) so we can discuss the matter and if necessary, I can modify the request.

    Published: 9 April 2026

  5. Traffic destination data: Belmont Road (A465) northbound to Rotherwas vs. A49/City Centre

    I am requesting information regarding traffic flow patterns on Belmont Road (A465) in Hereford.

    Specifically, please provide any recorded data, origin-destination (O-D) survey results, or transport modeling estimates from the last 5 years that show:

    The percentage or volume of northbound traffic on Belmont Road that turns toward the Rotherwas Industrial Estate/Enterprise Zone;

    The percentage or volume of northbound traffic on Belmont Road that continues onto the A49 or toward the City Centre.

    If specific percentages are unavailable, please provide the most recent traffic count data for the A465/A49 (Asda) roundabout that indicates turning movements for vehicles arriving from the south."

    Published: 9 April 2026

  6. Annual border plants/weedkillers

    How much do you spend annually on annual border plants and how much do you spend on perennials?

    Can you break it down for the last three years please?

    How many tonnes of flowers are discarded each year?

    Can you break it down for the last three years please?

    What happens to them?

    Do you use weedkiller?

    Or an organic alternative?

    If so, how much do you spend on weedkiller each year? Can you break it down annually please?

    Published: 9 April 2026

  7. Elective Home Education and Channel Cases

    Whether the council is aware of any cases since 1 January 2015 in which a child who was being electively home educated was discussed at the Channel panel.

    If it is not possible to confirm this for the full period without exceeding the cost limit, I would be grateful if you could consider a shorter recent period (for example, the last 5 years), or alternatively confirm whether the authority holds any recorded information indicating that elective home education has been identified as a factor in any Channel case.

    Published: 9 April 2026

  8. Anti Terrorist barriers cost

    Could you give me information as to how much Hereford council has spent in the last 12 months maintaining and calling out contractors for repairs to the anti terrorist barriers in the city, and also how much has it cost for a man to raise and lower the ones at the end of Offer Street / St Peters square.

    Published: 8 April 2026

  9. Animal Licenses

    I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information, please:

    1. If you do not already publish this information publicly and in an up-to-date format, please could you confirm how many dog breeding businesses your local authority currently licences (as of today’s date) pursuant to the Animal Welfare (Licensing of Activities Involving Animals) (England) Regulations 2018?

    2. Please provide a breakdown by licence of the number of

    1. breeding female adult dogs,

    2. breeding male adult dogs,

    3. litters of puppies (please indicate the number permitted at any one time and/or within a twelve-month period)

    4. other (non-breeding) dogs specified on each dog breeding licence and,

    5. the star rating and

    6. expiry date of each dog breeding licence currently in effect.

    3. If you do not already publish this information publicly and in an up-to-date format, please could you confirm how many licensed pet sellers your local authority currently licences (as of today’s date) pursuant to the Animal Welfare (Licensing of Activities Involving Animals) (England) Regulations 2018?

    4. With reference to your response to question 3, how many licensed pet sellers are currently permitted to sell:

    a. Puppies/Dogs

    b. Kittens/Cats

    c. Rabbits

    5. With reference to your response to question 4, please provide a breakdown by licence of the number of

    1. puppies/dogs,

    2. kittens/cats and,

    3. rabbits specified on each licence and,

    4. the star rating and,

    5. expiry date of each licence currently in effect.

    6. Since the Animal Welfare (Licensing of Activities Involving Animals) (England) Regulations 2018 came into effect

    a. how many applications has your council received for a licence to sell cats, and

    b. how many of these were granted?

    7. If any applicant was not granted a licence, what were the reasons and how many were declined for each reason? - You can indicate multiple answers:

    • Concerns about animal welfare

    • Unsuitable premises

    • Application withdrawn

    • Not within council area

    • Didn’t meet threshold for a licence

    • Application incomplete

    • Other – please specify

    8. Please indicate which of the following statements apply by indicating yes or no for each statement and stating the number of licences:

    - Have you revoked the licence of any cat sellers in your area? If yes, how many?

    - Have you renewed the licence of any cat sellers in your area? If yes, how many?

    - What is the role of the person/s who carries out licensing inspections for your local authority?

    Published: 8 April 2026

  10. Adult Social Care and Children's Services

    Please can you answer the following questions regarding Adult Social Care and Children's Services in Herefordshire Council, under the Freedom of Information Act 2000? Timeframe: Last 12-18 months.
     
    1. The lowest and highest (based on the standard daytime weekday rate) rates per hour of domiciliary care charged to the local authority for Adult Social Care commissioned through private domiciliary care providers.
     
    2. The lowest and highest (based on the standard hourly rate) rates per hour of supported living charged to the local authority for Adult Social Care commissioned through private supported living providers.
     
    3. When you anticipate re-tendering for:
    a. Homecare services for Adult Social Care
    b. Children's Homecare
    c. Supported Living services for Adults
    d. Supported Accommodation for Care Leavers 16-25
    e. Extra Care services for Adults
    f. Learning Disability services
    g. Mental Health support services
     
    4. The names of the current domiciliary care providers commissioned in your authority to deliver Adult Social Care.
     
    5. The names of the current supported living providers commissioned in your authority to deliver Adult Social Care.
     
    6. The contact name, email address and telephone number of the person responsible for commissioning domiciliary care services in your authority.
     
    7. The contact name, email address and telephone number of the person responsible for commissioning supported living services in your authority.

     
    8. Whether the local authority is currently working with health partners to commission any of the above care services, and if so, who they are.
     
    9. The authority's current market positioning statement for Adult Social Care.

     

    Published: 7 April 2026