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| REQUEST ID | NAME | TDIRECTORATE | TSERVICEAREA | REQTITLE | SUPPLIED DATE | STATUS | REQUEST DATE | REQDETAILS | RESNOTES | STID |
| 3052 | Shirley Jenkins | Environment | | Private Hire Vehicles | 21-01-2010 | Supplied | 21-01-2010 | I am writing to make an open government request for all the information to which I am entitled under the freedom of information act. In order to assist you with this request, I am outlining my query as specifically as possible. If however this request is too wide or too unclear, I would be grateful if you could contact me as I understand that under the act, you are required to advise and assist requesters.
My request is for a list of all Private Hire Vehicles registered with your council or county within in the last 5 years and to show:- Make, Model, Colour, Registration No and Dates, past and present. This data could be sent by email and in a format that is easy and more suitable to the council e.g. Xls (Spreadsheet). No information relating to Owners Name is required and therefore does not infringe on Public Personal data. Great care has been taken to simplify this request with the minimal information required so to comply with Act and to minimise council time.
Example Data in Xls .
Make
Model
Colour
Reg No
Date Registered
| Dear Sir / Madam
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request received on 20th January 2010 requesting a list of all Private Hire Vehicles registered with our council within the last 5 years.
This authority does not hold this information. In the Greater London Metropolitan Area the licensing of taxis is undertaken by the Public Carriage Office, a team within Transport for London. The PCO can be contacted at:
Public Carriage Office (taxis and minicabs)
Passengers wishing to submit a comment or complaint to the Public Carriage Office (PCO) about taxi or private hire services in London should use the online form ( https://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/contact/pco/default.aspx ) or use the contact details below:
Tel: 0845 300 7000 (08:00-20:00 Monday to Friday)
Textphone: 020 7918 4435 (08:00-20:00 Monday to Friday)
Fax: 020 7027 9914
Email: [email address]
Post: Surface Customer Services, 4th floor, Zone G7, Palestra, 197 Blackfriars Road, London, SE1 8NJ
General queries (not comments or complaints about taxi or private hire services) should be sent to [email address].
Kind Regards
Shirley | 4 |
| 3051 | Kulwinder Singh-Rai | Housing | | Asisstet Rent | 21-01-2010 | Supplied | 21-01-2010 | left my job last Dec'2009 due to family sickness and now I find it impossible to pay my house rent.
I had registered with locata and I bid. I need assistence with my rent untill I got ajob. | Not an foi, pased the hb team as service request | 4 |
| 3050 | Kulwinder Singh-Rai | Housing | | squatters | 21-01-2010 | Supplied | 21-01-2010 | I sent this FOI to you on December 7th. You are the only councils who have failed to respond. Can you send me this information asap?
Thanks
Ellen
Dear Sir or Madam,
Under the Freedom of Information Act, please can I have the answers to the following questions:
1. How many council homes/housing association homes do you have in your borough?
2. How many are currently empty?
3. How many have been empty for more than three months?
4. How many instances of squatting in council properties have been reported in the last year? How many of those are still being dealt with?
5. How much money has it cost the council to deal with squatters in the last year? What methods has this involved?
Thanks for your time.
Ellen Widdup
07958 581914 | The council has considered your request for information which has been dealt with under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 ("the Act")
I set out below the Council's response to your request as follows:
1. How many council homes/housing association homes do you have in your borough?
We have 5063 council homes and 2539 Housing Association homes in the borough of Harrow.
2. How many are currently empty?
There are 52 council homes empty. We do not hold information on empty properties for Housing Associations, you would have to contact the respective Housing Associations in the borough for this information.
3. How many have been empty for more than three months?
24 council homes have been empty for more than three months. Again you will have to contact the respective Housing Associations for information on their empty properties.
4. How many instances of squatting in council properties have been reported in the last year?
There are no instances of properties reported as squatted in the last year.
How many of those are still being dealt with? Not applicable
5. How much money has it cost the council to deal with squatters in the last year? What methods has this involved? Not applicable on the basis of the answer to no. 4 above.
If you are unhappy with the way your request for information has been handled, you can request an internal review of the Council's decision by writing to: | 4 |
| 3048 | Shirley Jenkins | Transport and Streets | | Damage to Vehicle | 22-01-2010 | Supplied | 22-01-2010 | Inspections undertaken on Magpie Hall Road for the 2yrs preceding 14 November.
Details of carriageway defects identified.
How are carriageway inspections undertaken.
Frequency of inspections.
Details of complaints/enquiries relating to Magpie Hall Road.
The road classification and section number.
The criteria as to what you define as a pothole requiring attention.
Period of time between identification and repair (temporary & permanent) of carriageway defects.
Has the Council formally adopted all or part of the standards contained within the national code of practice for highways maintenance management. | See letter in file sent by Rodney Mason. | 4 |
| 3043 | Shirley Jenkins | Leisure | | Driver Training | 11-02-2010 | Supplied | 11-02-2010 | Dear Sir or Madam
I am writing to make a request for all the information to which I am entitled under the Freedom of Information Act. In order to assist you with this request, I am outlining my query as specifically as possible.
If however this request is too wide or too unclear, I would be grateful if you could contact me as I understand that under the Act, you are required to advise and assist requesters.
I would like to know how many contracts have been awarded to Robust Training and its partner company Ruskin Private Hire in the last 10 years by Harrow council, for what services and for what sum of money over what period? Both businesses were founded by Mr Roderick Lynch, aka Roger Lynch, who is the Chief Executive. Robust Training is located at 3rd Floor North, 224-236 Walworth Road, London SE17 1JE and Ruskin Private Hire is at 8 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, London, SE5 0EN.
Please inform me of any contracts which have been withdrawn from Robust Training and Ruskin Private Hire by Harrow council in the last 10 years and the reasons for the withdrawal. Please inform me of any investigations of Robust Training, Ruskin Private Hire or Roderick ¿Roger¿ Lynch by Harrow council in the last 10 years. Please provide me with a copy of any reports and findings produced by Harrow council as a result of any investigation conducted by Harrow council or an associated organisation or body.
I understand that under the Act, I should be entitled to a response within 20 working days. I would be grateful if you could confirm by email or by post that you have received this request. I look forward to hearing from you in the near future.
Kind regards
Deborah Hobson
| Dear Ms Hobson
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request dated 18th January 2010.
Your request is:
I would like to know how many contracts have been awarded to Robust Training and its partner company Ruskin Private Hire in the last 10
years by Harrow council, for what services and for what sum of money over what period?
Following on from a conversation that you had with my colleague Isabella Uzodike I believe that this company gives training for drivers. Our Public Realm Manager and Special Needs Transport Manager have no records of ever using these companies. I also checked with our accounts payable team but unfortunately they can only go back as far as 2006 but there is no record of this company on their system.
If you are unhappy with the service you have received in relation to your request and wish to make a complaint or request a review of our decision, you should write to the Head of Property & Infrastructure Services at, PO Box 39, Civic Centre, Harrow, HA1 2XA.
If you are not content with the outcome your complaint, you may apply directly to the Information Commissioner (IC) for a decision. Generally, the IC cannot make a decision unless you have exhausted the complaints procedure provided by the council. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at: The Information Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF.
Shirley Jenkins | 4 |
| 3041 | Shirley Jenkins | Environment | | ASBOS | 20-01-2010 | Supplied | 20-01-2010 | Could you tell us how many people were given Anti Social Behaviour Orders every year since 1998, when Asbos were introduced under the Crime and Disorder Act 1998?
Could you tell us how many Asbos were breached every year since 1998?
For each Asbo, can you include the sex of the person, age and conditions and whether the Asbo was breached?
Can you supply the information in tax years, ie from April to March?
Please send the information by email to [email address] <mailto:[email address]> .
If I can help you to clarify this request, do not hesitate to email me.
| Dear Mr Phillips
Thank you for your Freedom of Information Request dated 11th January 2010.
I can confirm that the Council does not hold the information falling within the description specified in your request.
Having reviewed your request for information, we have identified that, due to the nature of the information that you are seeking, your request may be more appropriately addressed to the Metropolitan Police.
If you remain dissatisfied with the handling of your request, you have a right to appeal to the Information Commissioner at:
Information Commissioner¿s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Tel: +44(0) 1625 545700 Web site: https://forms.ico.gov.uk/enquiry.aspx
Regards
Shirley Jenkins | 4 |
| 3029 | Peter Singh | Social care children | | Child Protection Referrals | 02-02-2010 | Supplied | 15-01-2010 | 1) What percentage increase in child-protection referrals did your department witness in the financial year 2008-9 compared to 2007-8?
2) What - if any - was the percentage rise or fall in actual child protection plans begun by the authority in 2008-9 compared with the previous year?
3) What - if any - was the percentage rise in care orders between the two periods?
4) What additional costs have the combined effects of your answers to questions 1, 2 and 3 resulted in for the authority?
5) Where is this money being found from?
6) Have you been asked to make efficiency savings in your 2010-11 budget, and if so, which areas do you expect these to come from? | As requested - a draft was sent to PAul Clark as a media briefing on 15th Jan | 4 |
| 3028 | Kulwinder Singh-Rai | Housing | | Photograph | 15-02-2010 | Supplied | 15-02-2010 | Please may you send preferably via email the photographic evidence you obtained on the 9th December 2009 from the raid conducted and any more recent information regarding address:
385A Northolt Road, South Harrow, London HA2 8JD.
My email to Ms S Abdul-Cader will explain more details with updates | dealt with the criem reduction team as per Pragna dhamji | 4 |
| 3027 | Peter Singh | Social care adults | | Provision to prevent people selling homes for care provision | 05-02-2010 | Supplied | 05-02-2010 | I am writing to request your assistance in answering the following questions in relation to your authority's provisions for helping home owners who need permanent care to access support that can prevent them having to sell their properties before they die. I make this request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
Specifically, I would like answers to the following questions:
1) How many residents did you place into a care home on a permanent basis during the financial year 2008-9?
2) How many of those people owned a property that would not have fallen under the mandatory disregards? (In other words, how many could have been in the position where their homes may have needed to be sold to cover the cost of their care?)
3) In how many cases in the 2008-9 financial year did the authority use its discretionary powers to disregard the value of a person's home when deciding on the charge they should pay for their care?
4) How many requests were made for discretion to be made in relation to question 3?
5) Does your council offer a deferred-payment scheme to allow individuals placed into permanent care not to have to sell their homes to pay for the cost of that care until after their death?
6) If so, in how many cases in the 2008-9 financial year did the authority make a new deferred payment agreement?
7) How many requests were made to enter into a deferred agreement as detailed in question 5 during the financial year 2008-9?
8) If your council offers deferred-payment contracts, how do you promote their availability (please give specific examples)?
9) If your authority does not offer a deferred-payment agreements, why not?
10) If your council has deferred-payment contracts with residents in permanent care, what was the total cost to the council of those contracts in the financial year 2008-9, and how many residents receiving long-term care does that figure relate to? (The "total cost" figure should refer to the amount the council spent on care which it expects to eventually recover from the deferred payments.)
11) If your council offers residents deferred-payment contracts, which budget does the funding for them come from?
| 1) 147
2) Harrow Council doe not record this information, however, all clients who were offered a 12 week disregard during 2008/09 would have ultimately been expected to sell their properties. We completed 33 12 week disregards for 2008/09
3) Again, we do not keep figures for these clients. The property would only be disregarded if the clients' partner was still living there or a relative (as defined in section 7.004 in CRAG)
4) Not known, no figures are kept for this
5) Yes
6) None in 2008/09
7) None. Information has been sent on request outlining the scheme but it has not been taken up by clients
8) This is discussed on an individual basis with service users a relative
9) Not applicable
10) None in 2008/09 see 6
11) The Placements Budget
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| 3026 | Peter Singh | Social care adults | | Audit tool | 05-02-2010 | Supplied | 05-02-2010 | Firstly, I understand that the Audit Tool was produced by the Department of
Health as practice guidance for councils with social services
responsibilities.
I would like to know if your council is currently making use of the Audit
Tool for developing services for Minority Ethnic Older People, or if it has
made use of it in the past but no longer does so.
Secondly, Local Authority Circular (2006)16 indicates how much money the
Local Authority has received for the Dignity in Care campaign. Please can
you tell me:
i) how many grants have been made from this fund
ii) what proportion of the total has been made available in grants
iii) what the grants were for. | Information too large for databse - see paper file | 4 |
| 3025 | Kulwinder Singh-Rai | Housing | | tower blocks | 13-01-2010 | Supplied | 13-01-2010 | Under the Part 1 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I herby request
the following information.
*The number of Tower Blocks, within your control, comprising 10
storeys or greater
*The number of fire risk assessments that have been carried out
on Tower Blocks, within your control, comprising 10 storeys or greater
*The number of Tower Blocks, within your control, comprising less
than 10 storeys
*The number of fire risk assessments that have been carried out
on Tower Blocks, within your control, comprising less than 10 storeys
I trust that you will be able to provide this information.
| Harrow Council does not have any tower blocks. However, all of the low rise flats within the management of the council have had a Fire Risk Assessment completed within the last 12 months.
paul mullins | 4 |
| 3021 | Peter Singh | Social care adults | | Placements | 18-01-2010 | Supplied | 18-01-2010 | 1. New local authority funded placements made by the local authority to care homes or nursing homes during the calendar years 2007, 2008 and 2009 (stated separately)
2. Number of local authority funded residents within care or nursing homes as at 1st January 2008, 2009 and 2010 (stated separately)
3. Number of new beneficiaries of local authority funded domiciliary care in each of the years 2007, 2008 and 2009 (stated separately)
4. Number of local authority funded persons receiving domiciliary care as at 1st January 2008, 2009 and 2010 (stated separately)
5. Do the local authority operate their own care/nursing homes for the elderly?
6. If yes to Question 5, is there an ongoing process of either externalisation or closure of the local authority owned care homes? | 1. New local authority funded placements made by the local authority to care homes or nursing homes during the calendar years 2007, 2008 and 2009 (stated separately)
2007 = 185, 2008 = 193, 2009 = 146. All of these are permanent admissions, we do not have the data for temporary admissions across all 3 years.
2. Number of local authority funded residents within care or nursing homes as at 1st January 2008, 2009 and 2010 (stated separately)
2008 = Information not available, 2009 = 848, 2010 = 592
3. Number of new beneficiaries of local authority funded domiciliary care in each of the years 2007, 2008 and 2009 (stated separately)
2007 = Information not available, 2008 = 134, 2009 = 542. These are estimated figures as we do not have a direct way of recording new home care admissions, just total admissions.
4. Number of local authority funded persons receiving domiciliary care as at 1st January 2008, 2009 and 2010 (stated separately)
2008 = Information not Available, 2009 = 1197, 2010 = 1116
5. Does the local authority operate their own care/nursing homes for the elderly?
Harrow does not operate their own care/nursing homes for the elderly.
6. If yes to Question 5, is there an ongoing process of either externalisation or closure of the local authority owned care homes?
N/A
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| 3004 | Peter Singh | Social care children | | Child protection | 02-02-2010 | Supplied | 02-02-2010 | 1. As of 1 January 2009, how child protection cases were unallocated? (An unallocated case is one in which there is no named qualified consistent social worker visiting a child regularly, following a purposeful plan overseen by a line manager.)
2. How many children in your authority have been classified as having adoption in their best interest but have yet to be adopted? How many of them have been waiting for longer than 3 years?
3. How does your children's services department pass lists of children with child protection plans to local hospitals? (e.g. by email, by letter) How often is this done? To which hospitals are the lists sent?
4. If your children's services have been assessed by Ofsted under the Common Area Assessment, approximately how much did it cost your authority to prepare for that inspection?
5. How many and what proportion of employees within the local authority who have been obliged to undergo a CRB check are overseas workers? How many of them are from France or Australia?
| 1. As of 1 January 2010, there were no unallocated child protection cases.
2. As of 14 January 2010, there are 3 children classified as having adoption in their best interest, but yet to be adopted. 1 of these has been waiting longer than 3 years.
3. Our Children's Services department passes CPP lists to hospitals weekly by email. The lists are sent to Northwick Park Hospital and Edgware Walk In Centre.
4. Our Children's Services have not had an announced inspection under the Common Area Assessment.
5. There are 83 employees within Children's Services Social Care Teams who have been obliged to undergo a CRB check, of which 13 are overseas workers (16%). Two of these are from France or Australia.
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| 3003 | Peter Singh | Social care children | | Child protection plans | 03-02-2010 | Supplied | 03-02-2010 | 1. How many home educated children in your area were subject to a Child
Protection Plan?
2. What was the total number of all children in your area who were
subject to a Child Protection Plan? | 1. The number of home educated children who were also subject to a Child Protection Plan in Harrow in each period (please note that figures were recorded only for 06/07, 08/09, and 09/10 year to date):
01/09/06-31/08/07 : 1
01/09/07-31/08/08 : (data not available)
01/09/08-31/08/09 : 1
01/09/09-31/12/10 : 0
2. Total number of children subject to child protection plans (at snapshot date):
31/03/2005 : 124
31/03/2006 : 120
31/03/2007 : 137
31/03/2008 : 109
31/03/2009 : 159
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| 3002 | Shirley Jenkins | Environment | | Refuse | 20-01-2010 | Supplied | 06-01-2010 | I have a number of Kitchen knives I wish to dispose of, can you please advise on how and where. I don't believe wrapping them in either paper or cardboard is very satisfactory. | Dear Mr Curtis
Kitchen knives should be disposed of inside your green wheeled bin.
Regards
Alan
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| 3001 | Peter Singh | Social care adults | | Resource Allocation Process | 03-02-2010 | Supplied | 15-01-2010 | What questions are asked when a potential service user is assessed under your Resource allocation process (RAS)? How are the points then allocated to each question? How are these converted into an indicative budget? Are there different RAS schedules for different groups of people and if so what are they and how does the allocation differ and why? | As you know Self Directed Support is a way of supporting people with Social Care needs in the community. In Harrow the provision for social care support is based on Fair Access to Care Service criteria, supporting those service users whose needs are assessed as either critical and/or substantial.
A supported assessment of service users needs is carried out. This assessment includes a range of questions and if the need of a service users is identified as critical or substantial appropriate levels of support are agreed to meet these needs. Harrow¿s points based resource allocation system (RAS) is used to work out an indicative budget which is communicated to the service user in writing. Each RAS point is worth £138 currently but this is being reviewed. Points are allocated under each domain.
Harrow uses the same RAS for all adult community care service users group i.e. Older People, Learning Disability and Physical Disability. Currently mental health service users are currently not included in the Self Directed Support Team process however plans to include mental health users are in process.
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| 2983 | Isabella Ogo-Uzodike | Business | | housing benefit | 20-01-2010 | Supplied | 04-01-2010 | Dear FOI Team
I would like to chase up the FOI request on housing benefit which was submitted on 22 November 2009.
I have still not received a response even though the deadline for responses has now passed.
Can you please advise me on what has happened to the request by close of play today.
Thank you
Michele Bowker | Response was sent on 14th December but an error in the email address meant the enquirer did not receive the response. Now resent and closed. | 4 |
| 2982 | Shirley Jenkins | Leisure | | Allotments | 07-01-2010 | Supplied | 05-01-2010 | >>> Margaret Campbell <[email address]> 01/01/2010 11:59 >>>
Dear Harrow Borough Council,
As of January 2010, please could you tell me:
1) How many allotment sites are there in Harrow for which Harrow Borough Council has access to waiting list data?
2) What is the total number of plots on these sites?
3) What is the total number of people on waiting lists for these sites?
4) Are any of these waiting lists closed to further applications?
5) How many new council allotment sites were brought into use in 2009? Please give:
a) number of new sites
b) names of new sites
c) total area of new land in hectares
d) total number of new plots
Yours faithfully,
Margaret Campbell
| Dear Miss/Mrs Campbell,
You have requested the following information regarding Harrow Council's Allotment Sites, I have answered your questions in order of your email.
1. 31
2. 1316
3. 489
4. No
5. None
If I can be of any further assistance please do not hesitate to contact me.
Yours Sincerely
E. Slavin
Allotments
| 4 |
| 2963 | Peter Singh | Education | | Use of restraint | 20-01-2010 | Supplied | 20-01-2010 | Under the Freedom of Information act 2000, please disclose
how many times restraint has been used in maintained primary and secondary
schools in the LEA area for the purpose of preventing a child from (a)
committing an offence, (b) causing personal injury to, or damage to the
property of, a person, including the child in question and (c) prejudicing
the maintenance of good order and discipline at the school or among pupils
receiving education at the school in each of the last five years.
I would prefer to receive the information in electronic format, to the
enclosed email address. However, if it is more convenient, I would be
happy to receive the information in hard copy format. | Hi Brian, I have asked the relevant officers within the council and can confirm that the council does not collate this information, please accept my apologies for not being able to help you further with your request, kind regards, Peter
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| 2962 | Peter Singh | Education | | Teacher absenteeism and supply teachers | 21-01-2010 | Supplied | 21-01-2010 | 1. In the 08/09 academic year please state how many teachers were
absent from schools in your area for the ENTIRE academic year due to a
stress related illness? (ie they did not work in their paid employment for a
single day during the last academic year because of the stress related
illness) (a) How many of these were headteachers, or (b) assistant/deputy
headteachers?
2. How many teaching days were lost to your authority in the last
academic year (08/09) because of teachers (not teaching assistants) being
absent from schools with a stress related illness?
3. How much did schools in your authority spend in the last academic
year (08/09) on paying for the provision of supply teachers?
4. Which school within your authority spent the most money on supply
teachers in the last academic year (08/09)? Please give the name and address
of the school and the amount spent on supply teachers.
NOTE: The question refers to the (08/09) academic year, however, if you
collate the data for the financial year then please provide it on that basis
but please state the figures relate to the financial year (April 08 - March
09) rather than the academic year (Sep 08 - Aug 09). | 1. It is not possible to answer the question based on the information available, because of the large proportion of staff returns for sickness is recorded as 'other'.
2. As 1 above
3. The amount showing in the Section 52 Outturn Statement 08/09 (financial year) for school expenditure on supply is as follows:
E02 Supply £746,163. This covers salaries for supply teaching staff employed directly by schools who are covering curriculum release, long term absence, sickness absence and training absence.
E26 Agency Supply £4,176,549. This covers the costs paid to agencies for teaching staff that have been brought in to cover teacher absence. This includes illness, absence for training and cover where a permanent appointment has not been made.
4. Canons High School, Shaldon Road, Edgware, HA8 6AN spent the most on supply in 08/09 (Financial Year). It should be noted that this was partly due to long term sickness of 2 members of staff and the maternity cover of 3 staff members.
E02 £44,176
E26 £200,631
NB Harrow schools are undergoing a change to the Age of Transfer in 2010/11 and as a result this may have distorted the amount spent on supply. Schools have been preparing themselves for a reduction in the number of teachers in the Primary Sector and an increase of teachers in the Secondary Sector. Supply teachers may have been used to facilitate this change.
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| 2961 | Peter Singh | Education | | staff costs | 23-12-2009 | Supplied | 23-12-2009 | I am doing some research on Teaching and School Staffing Costs.
Please could you tell me if the Bands in the Staff Costs in the Council's Statement of Accounts 2008/09 include Teaching and School Staff Costs ?
Please could you also provide me under the FOI Act with a break down of the figures or bands relating to Teaching and School Staff Costs ?
| Please could you tell me if the Bands in the Staff Costs in the Council's Statement of Accounts 2008/09 include Teaching and School Staff Costs ?
No
Please could you also provide me under the FOI Act with a break down of the figures or bands relating to Teaching and School Staff Costs ?
School staff annual pay Number
Band £50k to £60K 110
Band £60k to £70K 42
Band £70k to £80K 16
Band £80k to £90K 5
Band £90k to £100K 2
Band £100k to £110K 2
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| 2948 | Peter Singh | Education | | Telecommunications networks | 05-01-2010 | Supplied | 05-01-2010 | I am writing under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to
request information in respect of the supply of telecommunications networks
and related services to educational establishments.
Specifically, I would be grateful to receive information concerning:
1. Names of supplier(s);
2. Duration of contracts, and;
3. Expiry date of contracts
4. Value of contract;
for the current provision of the following data and telecommunications
services to primary and secondary schools and any other educational
establishments which your authority has responsibility for:
a) Wide Area Network(s)
b) Broadband/Ethernet networks
c) Internet Service Provision
d) Web/Data Hosting and management
e) Video-conferencing
Finally, I would also like knowledge of your authoritys buying process for
these services. For example, do you use procurement routes including as
framework agreements such as Buying Solutions Catalist, Regional Grids for
Learning or other public service networks?
|
1. Name of Supplier: The London Grid for Learning Trust (LGfL)
2. Duration of Contracts: The Council let a contract to LGfL in 2001 for a minimum term of 3 years, with no stated termination date.
3. Expiry date of contracts: This contract may be terminated by either party serving notice to do so.
4. Value of Contract: This contract is by intention widely cast to enable the ongoing draw down of an evolving portfolio of broadband and related services for schools, procured on an aggregated basis, from and through the LGfL. As such, there is no defined contract value.
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| 2947 | Peter Singh | Education | | Racial equality | 12-01-2010 | Supplied | 12-01-2010 | 1) What evidence is there that schools equal opportunity policies
are effective in combating racism?
2) What are schools in your area doing to promote racial equality
and promote community cohesion? Examples of measures deemed to be
good practice and recognised as being successful would be useful.
3) Can you provide me with any evidence that the measures listed
above have been effective (if this has not already been done)?
4) Are further measures required to either maintain trust in the
teaching profession or protect children and young people?
and see paper file | I have contacted a number of different officers within the council and unfortunately the council does not collate this information and I am therefore unable to provide you with any information | 4 |
| 2946 | Peter Singh | Education | | Compensation payments | 23-12-2009 | Supplied | 23-12-2009 | See paper copy - text too large to paste |
1. The local authority has paid nil compensation to teachers and headteachers working in school and central services following claims in the County or High Court for accidents at work in 2007, 2008 and 2009.
2. The local authority has paid nil compensation to support staff working in schools and central services following claims in the County or High Court for accident at work in 2007, 2008 and 2009.
3. In 2007 no compensation payments were made to teachers and headteachers working in schools or central services following claims in the Employment Tribunal for discrimination. In 2008 £60k was paid in compensation payments to teachers and headteachers working in schools or central services following claims in the Employment Tribunal for discrimination. All such payments were made by settlement reached out of Tribunal. In 2009 £23k was paid in compensation payments to teachers and headteachers working in schools or central services following claims in the Employment Tribunal for discrimination. All such payments were made by settlement reached out of Tribunal.
4. Between 2007-2009 no compensation payment were made to support staff working in schools or central services following claims in the Employment Tribunal for discrimination.
5. None.
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| 2945 | Shirley Jenkins | Transport and Streets | | Road Salt | 21-12-2009 | Supplied | 18-12-2009 | >>> Navprit Rai <[email address]> 15/12/2009 19:00 >>>
15/12/09
Dear FOI Officer,
This is a request under the Freedom of Information Act.
Could you please supply me with answers to the following questions regarding the gritting of roads:
How much salt have you stockpiled for gritting roads this year?
How much salt do you estimate you will need for the rest of the year?
How much salt you estimate you will need for next year?
How much salt did you use over each of the last five years?
I would be grateful if you would supply this information in an electronic form by email.
If I can help to clarify this request please telephone me on 07843660493 or contact me by email at [email address]
If you deny all or any part of this request, please cite each specific exemption you think justifies your refusal to release the information and notify me of appeal procedures available under the law.
I would appreciate it if you would acknowledge receipt of this request and I look forward to hearing from you promptly, as required by the legislation, and in any case within 20 working days.
Yours sincerely,
Navprit Rai
| Dear Mr Rai
I refer to your recent email regarding the Council's salt usage. My answers to your questions are as follows.
1. The Council has joint supplies with the London Borough of Brent. The current tonnage in the stockpile is approximately 2700 tonnes.
2. The amount of salt to be used for the remainder of the year will be dependent on the weather consequently I regret I cannot answer this question.
3. I regret that I cannot answer this question also as the amount would again be weather dependent. However the answer to your last question below might give an indication of salt usage.
4.
Salt Used in Harrow
2000/2001
764
2001/2002
386
2002/2003
961
2003/2004
1526
2004/2005
1655
2005/2006
1492
2006/2007
1325
2007/2008
521
2008/2009
994
I trust the foregoing answers your questions.
Yours sincerely
Rodney Mason
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| 2944 | Shirley Jenkins | Leisure | | Environmental Services | 20-01-2010 | Supplied | 20-01-2010 | >>> Dougie Willins <[email address]> 15/12/2009 15:16 >>>
Dear Sir or Madam,
I am interested in the total amount your organisation spends on environmental related services (as defined below) on an annual basis. Please could you provide the total spend incurred, both internal and with third parties, for the last three years. In addition please provide a breakdown of all contracts that have been awarded to third parties that are in excess of £150,000.
Environmental related services defined as:
Refuse and waste related services
Cleaning and sanitation services in urban or rural areas and related services
Grounds maintenance
Street and gully cleaning services
Environmental services
For each third party contract, please could you provide me with the name & value of the contract, the start and end dates (including any options to extend and for how long), and to whom the contract was awarded.
I am aware that some of this information is partially available on your website and the London Contract Register, however the exact amounts are not given and I have noted that not all contracts are given.
Many thanks in anticipation.
Dougie Willins
| Refuse and waste related services - (this includes both collection and disposal costs)
2006-07: 12,260k
2007-08: 11,932k
2008-09: 12,618k
Cleaning and sanitation services in urban or rural areas and related services
2006-07: 4,722k
2007-08: 2,949k
2008-09: 3,338k
Grounds maintenance (this inc arb and crem services)
2006-07: this information is no longer accessible
2007-08: 4,301k
2008-09: 5,077k
Gully cleaning services
2006-07: budget of 163k - unable to provide actual spend - information is no longer accessible
2007-08: 193.5k - this is made up of £166.5k works with 3rd party and approx internal costs of 27k
2008-09: 177.8k - this is made up of £150k works with 3rd party and approx internal costs of £27.8k
This service is provided by a third party through a larger contract for all public realm infrastructure works. The contract is a partnership contract 'Public Realm Infrastructure Works', with EnterpriseMouchel:
Start Date: April 2006
End Date: March 2011 - option to extend 2 years
Approx Value: £75m over 5 years - £100m over 7 years
Environmental Services
There are no third parties involved and there is no separate data collected to be able to provide accurate internal costs.
Other Contracts Awarded in excess of £150,000:
Gristwood and Toms - Tree maintenance
Fraikin - Fleet maintenance and management
Playworld Systems, Playdale Ltd, Wickstead Leisure, Sutcliffe Leisure - Play equipment supply and installation
EnterpriseMouchel - Public Realm Infrastructure Works (partnering contract)
Shirley Jenkins | 4 |
| 2943 | Peter Singh | Social care adults | | Social workers | 12-01-2010 | Supplied | 12-01-2010 | How many social workers do you employ at present?
- How many positions for social work staff do you have vacant at present?
- How many social workers have you dismissed this year following
disciplinary hearings?
- How many social workers have you disciplined for alleged sexual assaults?
- How many social workers have you disciplined for alleged drug use?
- How many social workers have you disciplined for alleged professional
misconduct?
- How many social workers have you disciplined for alleged child cruelty or
alleged collusion with child cruelty?
- How many of your social workers have been struck off in the past year and
in the past five years by the General Social Care Council?
|
Adults & Housing Childrens
Number of social workers employed 72 70
Vacant social worker positions 5 7
Number of social workers* dismissed from Dec 01 2007 to Dec 1 2008 and from Dec 1 2008 to Dec 1 2009* following disciplinary hearings? *Within the above time frames (broken down into the two periods if possible) 1 Dec 1 08 - Dec 1 09 1 April 1 08 - Dec 1 08 1 Dec 1 08 - Dec 1 09
Number of social workers disciplined for alleged sexual assaults? 0 0
Number of social workers disciplined for alleged drug use? 0 0
Number of social workers disciplined for alleged professional misconduct? 0 5
Number of social workers disciplined for alleged child cruelty or collusion in child cruelty? 0 1
Number of social workers that have been the subject of county court hearings *within the above time frames*? 0 0
Number of social workers that have been struck off *within the above time frames *by the General Social Care Council? 0 1 April 1 08- Dec 1 08
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| 2942 | Shirley Jenkins | Private Sector Housing Enforcement | | Staying Put | 15-12-2009 | Supplied | 14-12-2009 | This is being dealt with as a Stage 3 complaint but it also includes FOI requests. | Letter sent on 14th December - see file for copy
S Jenkins | 4 |
| 2941 | Taiq Chowdry Taiq Chowdry | Environment | Environmental Health | Pest Control | 16-12-2009 | Supplied | 16-12-2009 | >>> Jasper Copping <[email address]> 11/12/2009 11:27 >>>
*PLEASE NOTE: IF THIS REQUEST DOES NOT APPLY TO YOUR AUTHORITY - IE YOU DO
NOT OFFER THESE SERVICES - THEN IGNORE THIS EMAIL. PLEASE DO NOT BOTHER TO
REPLY TO THIS EFFECT.*
Dear Sir / Madam,
Under the Freedom of Information Act, please could you provide me with the following information:
- the numbers of incidents of pest infestation dealt with by your authority in each of the last five financial years (ie, April 2005 to April 2009).
- a breakdown of the species concerned.
If your authority is unable to provide this level of detail, please can you supply a response that will summarise recent trends over the given period, if there are any. For instance, whether has been an sharp or slight increase or fall in certain species.
Yours sincerely,
Jasper Copping
020 7931 3565 or 077958 14411 | Email Sent 16/12/09
Dear Mr Jasper Copping,
Thank you for your foi request. The details of the request are copied below for reference.
The reply is attached as an excel spreadsheet.
The answer contains all those incidences where the Council has received a request from a member of the public for the treatment of pests and where the Council has subsequently provided treatment services. The data is does not reflect those incidences where contact has not resulted in the provision of treatment services. Unfortunately we do not record the latter.
I hope this meets your requirements.
Regards
Taiq Chowdry MSc
Service Manager
Community & Environment Service
Harrow Council
Harrow, HA1 2UT
[email address]
(T) 020 8736 6236 (F) 0845 280 1845
(M) 07817 233 029
2005/2006 2006/2007 2007/2008 2008/2009 Total
Bed Bugs 70 70 3 3 146
Bees 0 70 3 3 76
Cockroaches 101 116 91 96 404
Fleas 0 2 4 0 6
Foxes 4 4 4 6 18
Insects Other 3 54 40 33 130
Mice 292 252 276 283 1,103
Pest 2 0 0 0 2
Pest Other 0 2 10 19 31
Pest Urgent 1 19 30 3 53
Pharaoh Ants 3 1 0 2 6
Pigeons 1 2 0 0 3
Rats 1,059 1,097 1,206 1,122 4,484
Rats & Mice 10 29 43 260 342
Squirrels 0 1 1 0 2
Wasps 410 476 839 310 2,035
Total 1,956 2,170 2,549 2,146 8,821
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| 2941 | Shirley Jenkins | Environment | | Pest Control | 16-12-2009 | Supplied | 16-12-2009 | >>> Jasper Copping <[email address]> 11/12/2009 11:27 >>>
*PLEASE NOTE: IF THIS REQUEST DOES NOT APPLY TO YOUR AUTHORITY - IE YOU DO
NOT OFFER THESE SERVICES - THEN IGNORE THIS EMAIL. PLEASE DO NOT BOTHER TO
REPLY TO THIS EFFECT.*
Dear Sir / Madam,
Under the Freedom of Information Act, please could you provide me with the following information:
- the numbers of incidents of pest infestation dealt with by your authority in each of the last five financial years (ie, April 2005 to April 2009).
- a breakdown of the species concerned.
If your authority is unable to provide this level of detail, please can you supply a response that will summarise recent trends over the given period, if there are any. For instance, whether has been an sharp or slight increase or fall in certain species.
Yours sincerely,
Jasper Copping
020 7931 3565 or 077958 14411 | Dear Mr Jasper Copping,
Thank you for your foi request. The details of the request are copied below for reference.
The reply is attached as an excel spreadsheet.
The answer contains all those incidences where the Council has received a request from a member of the public for the treatment of pests and where the Council has subsequently provided treatment services. The data is does not reflect those incidences where contact has not resulted in the provision of treatment services. Unfortunately we do not record the latter.
I hope this meets your requirements.
Regards
Taiq Chowdry MSc
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| 2926 | Peter Singh | Education | | CRB check costs | 21-12-2009 | Supplied | 17-12-2009 | Please supply the cost of vetting checks made by schools on members of
staff, third party workers and volunteers within the council boundary
over the past three years, giving a year by year costing breakdown.
Please include the cost and number of Criminal Records Bureau (CRB)
checks, Enhanced CRB checks, as well as checks made against the lists
formerly known as the Protection of Children Act (Poca) list, Protection
of Vulnerable Adults (Pova) list and List 99 (all now renamed as the
Independent Safeguarding Authority barred lists). | All the Council's CRB checks are enhanced checks, this automatically includes the POCA and POVA checks that have now been replaced by the ISA.
Schools staff CRB check (January 1st to December 31st)
2007 = £61,632
2008 = £79,380
2009 = £75,564 (to mid December)
It is not possible to identify CRB checks for school volunteers compared to other non school volunteers, but an estimate has been provided below
2007 = approx. £16,660
2008 = approx. £16,850
2009 = approx. £21,480 (to mid December)
There were no CRB costs for third party workers (non volunteers), as any agency staff would have been the subject of a CRB check paid for by the agency company.
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| 2925 | Peter Singh | Education | | Polish speaking children | 21-12-2009 | Supplied | 17-12-2009 | current total for the number of Polish-speaking children in your schools, both primary and secondary. | The total number of pupils in the October 2009 Harrow school census (Primary and Secondary) with first language Polish is 449. | 4 |
| 2924 | Peter Singh | Social care children | | Adoptions | 21-12-2009 | Supplied | 17-12-2009 | I would be very grateful if you could let me know the number of
children that were placed for adoption in your local authority this
year (2009). I would also like you to provide me with the number of
disrupted adoptions and adoption breakdowns, and therefore the number
of children who were passed back from adoptive families into council
care in the same year. | Since January 1st 2009 there have been 9 children placed for adoption. There have been no disrupted adoptions or adoptions which have broken down. | 4 |
| 2914 | Shirley Jenkins | Leisure | | Chandos Assesmbly | 07-01-2010 | Supplied | 24-12-2009 | Dear Mr. Hills,
Thank you for email.
1. Do you have any record of similar letters sent to other editors of publications the Council is funding or part funding? In order to provide the information requested under the Freedom of Information Act, it may be useful t provide a list of organisations funded or part funded by the Council, the publications they may produce and the letters sent to them by the Council.
2. Could you please indicate when I could be furnished me with information on the breakdown of expenditure on Chandos, and an audit trail about how the sculpture was commissioned?
3. I would appreciate if if you could ensure that a number of dates are suggested for the essential evaluation meeting that I have requested. You will appreciate that we are all extremely busy especially at this time and providing dates would ensure that the Evaluation meeting takes place as soon as possible. The following need to be on the agenda:
a) Feedback on expenditure on the Chandos Assembly including the sculpture
b) Feedback regarding process for the funding of the sculpture.
c) Arrangements for ensuring the investment in the sculpture is not a waste of public funds
I look forward to receiving the information.
Yours sincerely,
Cllr Nana Asante Member for Edgware Ward Women's Officer & EMO Harrow East CLP
| 1. We have no record of similar letters sent to other editors of publications funded or part-funded by the council.
2. The total budget allocated for the Community Connects Chandos project was £5000.
Breakdown:
£3000 allocated to printing of newspaper - the cheapest quote was from Annodata £979 per edition. One invoice has been paid to date ₤835.
£1000 allocated to advertising (banners and posters), actual costs to date ₤1,140
£1000 allocated for sculpture and fun day activities ie. treasure hunt, storytelling, bottles of water for fun run, hazard tape to mark area for dog show etc. the actual actual costs for these activities was £200 and £400 for medical cover on the day.
The sculpture was commissioned by Steve Porter through the Visual Arts Forum - the Sculptor was Tim Oelman.
3. A number of dates to be suggested for an evaluation meeting.
It is my understanding that a meeting date has now been arranged with the Chandos Assembly and the items suggested by you will be on the agenda.
Letter sent on 24/12/09 by Kashmir Takhar
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| 2913 | Isabella Ogo-Uzodike | Business | | staff for complaints & FOI | 20-01-2010 | Supplied | 20-01-2010 | Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 I would like to
request the following information:
The job title and pay scale range of all current employees in
your authority who have responsibility for dealing with (at a corporate wide or
departmental level):
a) Complaints
b) Freedom of Information
c) Both in same role
In your response can you please indicate which of the above applies to each
role i.e.
Customer Support Officer: £20,000 - £30,000 (Complaints - department)
Information Officer: £25,000 - £35,000 (Complaints and FOI - corporate wide)
I look forward to hearing from you within 20 working days.
Merry Christmas! | Supplied | 4 |
| 2912 | Peter Singh | Education | | Statemented | 21-12-2009 | Supplied | 17-12-2009 | Please could you let me have the names of the schools/colleges to which you send statement of special needs students band E,F and G for post 16 education. Please could you also let me know the ownership of these establishments (local authority - and if so which one, independent - name of owner, charity - name of charity etc). | A banding system does not operate in harrow and we are therefore unable to provide you with an answer. | 4 |
| 2911 | Shirley Jenkins | Environment | | Construction Projects | 07-12-2009 | Supplied | 07-12-2009 | I am writing to you to make an application under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 for the following information:
How many times has your authority used the powers under s.49 of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 to reduce or remit all or part of a business rate bill on the grounds of extreme hardship in each of the last five years, broken down by year?
How many times has your authority put out to tender a construction project that was subsequently withdrawn in each of the last three years, broken down by year?
| Letter emailed on 7th December by Shirley Jenkins. | 4 |
| 2910 | Shirley Jenkins | Environment | | Recycling | 15-12-2009 | Supplied | 11-12-2009 | Dear Sir/Madam
I wonder if you could help me or point me in the direction of someone at Harrow Council who could.
I am interested in the subject of compulsory of recycling and am doing a small research project (at the moment purely off my own back) into various councils' decisions to implement it.
I have got a lot of information off your website and so my only question is therefore this - did the council at any time consider the additional workload and cost of that workload that recyling puts on residents? If it did could you tell me a) how it calculated the additional time required, b) how was that time costed (e.g minimum wage, average income of residents, lowest council worker pay etc), and c) how did that inform the decision to advocate compulsory recycling.
Thank you very much for your time in answering this query and please let me know if you need any additional information.
Yours
Matthew Turner | Dear Mr Turner
Thank you for your request.
I can confirm that the council did not consider the additional workload and cost of that workload that recycling puts on residents when it made its decision to introduce compulsory recycling.
Harrow's recycling levels are amongst the best in the country (and the second best in London). This has been achieved without fining anyone - testament to the fact that many residents welcome the scheme.
Many thanks
Andrew Baker
Head of climate change
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| 2909 | Claire Wilkinson | | | TIMBER FRAME CONSTRUCTIONS | 04-02-2010 | Supplied | 04-02-2010 | Dear Sir or Madam,
Following the recent fires on timber frame construction sites we are currently going through a process of identifying similar developments in London. Depending on the stage in the construction process, these sites represent potential risks for construction workers, fire fighters and surrounding properties. Identifying these locations will assist us in notifying local fire stations of their existence and putting in place necessary action plans to deal with any incident that may take place.
If you are currently involved on any timber frame construction sites within London we would be very grateful if you could assist us by providing the following information;
¿ Address
¿ Number of floors
¿ Approximate floor area
Notification in the first instance should be sent to:
Lynsey Seal
[email address]
020 8555 1200 X30838
| See information supplied in file. | 4 |
| 2908 | Kulwinder Singh-Rai | Housing | | 4 + 5 bedroom houses | 11-02-2010 | Supplied | 17-01-2009 | UNDER THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT, PLEASE CAN YOU SUPPLY THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION REGARDING HARROW COUNCILS PROPERTY.
HOW MANY 5 BEDROOM COUNCIL HOUSES ARE VACANT?
HOW MANY 4 BEDROOM COUNCIL HOUSES ARE VACANT?
HOW MANY 5 BEDROOM COUNCIL HOUSES HAVE BEEN ALLOCATED TO COUNCIL TENANTS SINCE 31ST DECEMBER 2008?
HOW MANY 4 BEDROOM COUNCIL HOUSES HAVE BEEN ALLOCATED TO COUNCIL TENANTS SINCE 31ST DECEMBER 2008? | by Pragna Dhamji | 4 |
| 2907 | Shirley Jenkins | Environment | | Section 92 agreements | 15-12-2009 | Supplied | 15-12-2009 | Dear Freedom of Information Team,
I am requesting this information on behalf of the Liberal Democrat Group on Haringey Council under the Freedom of Information Act 200.
Please provide the number of Police Community Support Officers (PCSO) and Police Officers (showing rank) currently operating in your borough under a Section 92 agreement with the Metropolitan Police, how much is the overall cost per year of this agreement to the Local Authority, what is the ?unit cost? per year of an extra PCSO and PC and how many PCSO and PC hours does the agreement provide?
(i.e. how many PCSOs and Police Officers does the Council pay for, how much does this cost and how for how many hours?)
| Dear Mr Dennison
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request.
The Council currently has a Section 92 (of the Police Act 1996) Agreement with the Met Police to provide 7 full time PCs only for a contract sum of £262,500 per annum. No PCSOs or other ranks of officers are included in this agreement. No price has been requested or quoted to additional officers. The agreement does not explicitly state hours worked but refers to the number of full posts provided.
I hope this answers your questions.
Regards
information supplied by Finlay Flett | 4 |
| 2906 | Claire Wilkinson | Environment | Conservation | D1 LAND | 03-12-2009 | Supplied | 03-12-2009 | I would like to make a request under the freedom of information act. I would
like a directory of certain types of land owned or previously owned by your
authority, as outlined below:
1. Land classified as D1 currently not in use
2. Land whose classification has been changed from D1 to another
class since 1st January 2005
3. Land whose classification has been changed from another
class to D1 since 1st January 2005
4. Land currently classified as D1 over which the authority is currently
consulting regarding a change of use
Where possible, I would like this information entered directly into the
attached spreadsheet, in the appropriate sheet numbered as above, and
returned to me. I would like slightly different pieces of information for
each type of land, as indicated by the column headers. I think most of these
are self-explanatory, with the possible exception of 'Site Description',
which can be left blank if there is no distinguishing information available.
If you have any further questions please let me know. Please see below some
notes on the processing of this request.
|
Charlie Kemp
Via [email address]
3rd December 2009
Dear Mr Kemp
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 - INFORMATION REQUEST
Further to our email of 9th November 2009 we have now considered your request for information which has been dealt with under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (¿the Act¿).
I set out below the Council¿s response to your request.
I would like to make a request under the freedom of information act. I would like a directory of certain types of land owned or previously owned by your authority, as outlined below:
1. Land classified as D1 currently not in use
Land classified as D1 currently not in use ¿ Ex-Gayton Library, Gayton Road, Harrow
2. Land whose classification has been changed from D1 to another class since 1st January 2005
No change of use applications have been made from D1 on Council owned property.
3. Land whose classification has been changed from another class to D1 since 1st January 2005
Land whose classification has been changed from another class to D1 since 1st January 2005 - Planning permission for a change of use from Office (B1) to Library (D1) was granted for Gayton Library, 5 St Johns Road, Harrow on 17th January 2008 for Temporary Change of Use from Office (Class B1) to Library (Class D1) for five years.
4. Land currently classified as D1 over which the authority is currently consulting regarding a change of use
The Council is currently not consulting over any land classified as D1 under the Use Classes Order.
Land previously sold by Harrow Council
I can advise that the D1 properties sold by the Council are:
116 Headstone Drive, Wealdstone HA3 5QH - Sold 12th March 2008
Land at junction of Wilson Gardens and Vaughan Road, Harrow - Sold 25th March 2008
Tenby Road Assembly Hall, Tenby Road - Sold 31st May 2007
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| 2903 | Isabella Ogo-Uzodike | Business | | Information regarding your HR & Payroll | 08-12-2009 | Supplied | 08-12-2009 | 1. How many employees are there on your payroll?
2. Are the services outsourced to any private/public sector service providers? If yes, what is the name of the organisation?
3. If it is an outsourced service provider, could you please let us know the length of the contract as well as your satisfaction with the services?
4. If the services are provided by your in house team, could you please let us know what IT system (e.g. Sage, Star, Resourelink, Orcale etc.)you use for generation of Payroll? Also, please let us know the number of employee in this in house team.
5. I would also like to know the if your HR and Payroll software system is linked with your finance system? If no, which finance system do you use? | Responded to identical earlier FOI. | 4 |
| 2902 | Peter Singh | Social care adults | | Day Care Services | 09-12-2009 | Supplied | 09-12-2009 | See file | See file | 4 |
| 2901 | Kulwinder Singh-Rai | Housing | | sub letting | 09-12-2009 | Acknowledged | 09-12-2009 | Under the Freedom of Information Act, please can I have the answers to the following questions:
1. Please can you provide me with the number of social homes (council and housing association) which have been found to be unlawfully sub-let in the last five years? Please divide figures per year.
2. Where possible please provide me with details about the money made by tenants unlawfully subletting and any extra details on the cases - such as where the home was, how long it was sublet, who to, by whom and what for, how the council discovered it was unlawfully sublet and what was done about it.
3. Please provide figures for the number of homes which were found to be sub-let unlawfully during the five year period as a result of a tip-off from the public?
4. Please also provide the total number of families and individuals on your council housing lists and waiting for social housing in the borough?
Yours faithfully,
Ellen Porritt
07958 581914
[email address] | Dear Ms Porritt,
Further to my telephone conversation to you a short while ago, I am currently in a position to provide you some of the information requested. I will investigate further to provide you with the remainder by 23 December 2009 due to the Christmas break.
1. The London Borough of Harrow only holds data for its Social Housing stock. You will need to contact the respective Housing Associations who have properties within the borough for information on subletting.
4. We have 1.976 homeseekers and 399 transfer applicants in bands A, B and C (i.e in housing need) and well over 2,000 more who are registered in band D who seek council housing but who are unlikely ever to be made an offer because of the acute shortage of available social housing units.
Regards
Karen Connell
Senior Professional
Housing Management
Housing & Adult Services Department
Direct line: 020 8416 8660
Internal: x 8660 | 3 |
| 2901 | Kulwinder Singh-Rai | Housing | | sub letting | 04-01-2010 | Supplied | 04-01-2010 | Under the Freedom of Information Act, please can I have the answers to the following questions:
1. Please can you provide me with the number of social homes (council and housing association) which have been found to be unlawfully sub-let in the last five years? Please divide figures per year.
2. Where possible please provide me with details about the money made by tenants unlawfully subletting and any extra details on the cases - such as where the home was, how long it was sublet, who to, by whom and what for, how the council discovered it was unlawfully sublet and what was done about it.
3. Please provide figures for the number of homes which were found to be sub-let unlawfully during the five year period as a result of a tip-off from the public?
4. Please also provide the total number of families and individuals on your council housing lists and waiting for social housing in the borough?
Yours faithfully,
Ellen Porritt
07958 581914
[email address] | Dear Ms Porritt,
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 - INFORMATION REQUEST
Further to my email of 8 December 2009, the Council has considered your request for information which has been dealt with under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (¿the Act¿).
I set out below the Council¿s response to your request as follows:
1. Please can you provide me with the number of social homes (council and housing association) which have been found to be unlawfully sub-let in the last five years? Please divide figures per year.
The London Borough of Harrow only holds data for its Social Housing stock. You will need to contact the respective Housing Associations who have properties within the borough for information on subletting.
The council does not hold the requested data over the last five years, but a concerted effort to collate this information in the last year has identified approximately 10 properties.
2. Where possible please provide me with details about the money made by tenants unlawfully subletting and any extra details on the cases - such as where the home was, how long it was sublet, who to, by whom and what for, how the council discovered it was unlawfully sublet and what was done about it.
The Council does not hold the specific requested information. The council can state all the homes are within the borough and where necessary legal action has been taken to repossess the property.
3. Please provide figures for the number of homes which were found to be sub-let unlawfully during the five year period as a result of a tip-off from the public?
The Council does not hold the requested information.
4. Please also provide the total number of families and individuals on your council housing lists and waiting for social housing in the borough?
The Council has 1,976 homeseekers and 399 transfer applicants in bands A, B and C (i.e in housing need) and well over 2,000 more who are registered in band D who seek council housing but who are unlikely ever to be made an offer because of the acute shortage of available social housing units.
If you are unhappy with the way your request for information has been handled, you can request an internal review of the Council¿s decision by writing to:
Lynne Pennington
Housing Services Divisional Director
London Borough of Harrow
Civic 2
Station Road
Harrow
HA1 2XF
If you remain dissatisfied with the handling of your request, you have a right to appeal to the Information Commissioner at:
Information Commissioner¿s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF | 4 |
| 2901 | Kulwinder Singh-Rai | Housing | | sub letting | 09-12-2009 | Supplied | 09-12-2009 | Under the Freedom of Information Act, please can I have the answers to the following questions:
1. Please can you provide me with the number of social homes (council and housing association) which have been found to be unlawfully sub-let in the last five years? Please divide figures per year.
2. Where possible please provide me with details about the money made by tenants unlawfully subletting and any extra details on the cases - such as where the home was, how long it was sublet, who to, by whom and what for, how the council discovered it was unlawfully sublet and what was done about it.
3. Please provide figures for the number of homes which were found to be sub-let unlawfully during the five year period as a result of a tip-off from the public?
4. Please also provide the total number of families and individuals on your council housing lists and waiting for social housing in the borough?
Yours faithfully,
Ellen Porritt
07958 581914
[email address] | only party supplied, Karen Conel has agreed with requestor to supply the remainder afetr xmas | 4 |
| 2891 | Peter Singh | Education | | Primary School places | 21-12-2009 | Supplied | 21-12-2009 | I am looking for some information relating to the provision of primary
school places and funding in your local area. We have provided the attached
spreadsheet which details the information requested. We would be grateful if
you would fill in the information directly in the spreadsheet and return.
I hope all of the column headers are clear, or please get in touch with me.
| Local Authority Total reception year admissions Sep 2009 Aggregate pupil funding for reception admissions Sep 2009 Projected total reception year admissions Sep 2014 Aggregate pupil funding for reception admissions Sep 2014 Proposed source of additional funding Proposed source of additional places (I.e. new school/new classes/increased class size)
Harrow "2691 - Total number of places
2689 - total offers made
These include offers made to VA schools also " £3,548 (includes AWPU, Standards Fund and Schools Standards Grant). School Place Planning Strategy 2010-2013. Report to Education Consultative Forum on 27th January 2010. Please refer to website for info www.harrow.gov.uk/councilmeetings Given that the School Funding Settlement runs only to March 2011, it is impossible to predict future funding See previous comment, but assumption is that funding increases proportionately with pupil number increases.
see paper file | 4 |
| 2890 | Peter Singh | Social care children | | Court application, referals and voluntary agreements | 07-12-2009 | Supplied | 07-12-2009 | 1a) How many court applications were made by the council to have
children and young people removed from their families in the six
months from 1 April 2009?
1b) What was this figure in the same period in 2008?
1c) What was this figure in the same period in 2007?
2a) How many ¿Section 20¿ voluntary arrangements were made for the
care of children and young people in the six months from 1 April 2009?
2b) What was this figure in the same period in 2008?
2c) What was this figure in the same period in 2007?
3a) How many referrals were there to the council¿s social services in
the six months from 1 April 2009?
3b) What was this figure in the same period in 2008?
4a) How many children and young people are currently in council care
(care home, foster care)?
4b) How does this figure compare with the same period last year? | 1a) In the period 01/04/2009 ¿ 30/09/2009, there were 10 court applications to remove children from their families.
1b) In the period 01/04/2008 ¿ 30/09/2008, there were 17 court applications to remove children from their families.
1c) In the period 01/04/2007 ¿ 30/09/2007, there were 12 court applications to remove children from their families.
2a) In the period 01/04/2009 ¿ 30/09/2009, there were 32 section 20 arrangements made.
2b) In the period 01/04/2008 ¿ 30/09/2008, there were 33 section 20 arrangements made.
2c) In the period 01/04/2007 ¿ 30/09/2007, there were 19 section 20 arrangements made.
3a) In the period 01/04/2009 ¿ 30/09/2009, there were 771 referrals made to Harrow¿s (Children¿s) Social Services.
3a) In the period 01/04/2008 ¿ 30/09/2008, there were 580 referrals made to Harrow¿s (Children¿s) Social Services
4a) On 30/11/2009, there were 163 young people looked after by the council (not including respite care).
4b) On 30/11/2008, there were 162 young people looked after by the council (not including respite care).
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| 2889 | Peter Singh | Social care children | | Various | 22-12-2009 | Supplied | 22-12-2009 | 1. As of 1 November 2009 in your children's services department, (a) how many full-time equivalent social workers were employed, (b) how many social worker posts were filled by agency staff, (c) how many and which social worker posts were vacant.
1. Is your children's services department currently expected to run over budget in this financial year and, if so, by how much?
1.
* How many instances of misuse of the children's database ContactPoint have been found in your authority?
* How many employees of your children's services have been disciplined for misuse of the children's database ContactPoint? | Based on the latest information collated:
¿ 59 FTE qualified social workers who had a case load
¿ 4 posts
¿ 2 in the Unaccompanied Asylum Seekers Team, 0.5 FTE post in the Leaving Care Team and 4 in the Safeguarding, Family Placement & Support Team
Is your children's services department currently expected to run over budget in this financial year and, if so, by how much?
Yes by £1.652 million
How many instances of misuse of the children's database ContactPoint have been found in your authority?
None
How many employees of your children's services have been disciplined for misuse of the children's database ContactPoint?
None
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| 2888 | Peter Singh | Social care adults | | Expenditure items | 22-12-2009 | Supplied | 22-12-2009 | Please answer as many of the 5 sets of questions as you are able to.
For questions 3, 4 and 5 we have provided, for your convenience, an excel spreadsheet which you can use as a template to provide your answers. Please fill in the white cells. The categories for question 3 are the same as those used in the Social Care Expenditure in 2007-08 Including SSMSS Costs form.
If you have any questions, please email me by return or call Asta Bareisaite on 0207 036 9411
QUESTIONS
1. Independent Providers
* How many homecare suppliers do you have on block contracts? Can you provide the list of providers?
* How many homecare providers do you currently use on spot-contract basis? Can you provide the list of these providers?
* What is the split of homecare expenditure split between block and spot contracts (in terms of hours and expenditure) in 2007/08, 2008/09 and 2009/10 H1
2. Call Monitoring
* Are you implementing Call Monitoring? What proportion of hours provided is under Call Monitoring?
* Is it compulsory? If not, when is it going to become compulsory?
3. Expenditure on Adult Social Care
Please use the excel spreadsheet "3.Expenditure" for your answers.
4. Number of care recipients
Please use the excel spreadsheet "4.Number of people" for your answers.
5. Pricing
Please use the excel spreadsheet "5.Pricing, £ per hour" for your answers.
| see paper file - data too large | 4 |
| 2887 | Peter Singh | Education | | Pets | 02-12-2009 | Supplied | 02-12-2009 | Under the Freedom of Information Act, please could you provide me with
copies of any guidance or instructions issued to schools in your area on the
keeping of pets in classrooms and in schools.
If you do not allow the keeping of pets in schools, please can you specify. | In response, please see the attachment, this is the guidance we give to schools in relation to keeping animals in school. The guidance makes reference to other information for teachers including RSPCA education. | 4 |
| 2886 | Peter Singh | Social care adults | | Care equipment | 01-12-2009 | Supplied | 01-12-2009 | 1. * What is the population within the PCT area?
2. * Who the PCT currently acquires pressure area care
equipment from?
3. * Is the PCT currently under contract with regards to
acquiring pressure area care equipment?
4. * When did the contract start and when does it end?
5. * How much does the contract cost the PCT?
6. * Is the PCT within budget or overspent? | Hi Madeleine, please see the answers contained in the draft response which I have NOT sent to John, you will be able to cut and paste the answer, and I will close down the request on the council's FOI database, thanks, peter
Please note that the PCT has entered a joint agreement with Harrow Council to deliver an Integrated Community Equipment Service for the population.
The Office for national Statistics 2008 mid year estimate was that the population of Harrow was 216,200
Talley Group provides Pressure Relieving Equipment to Harrow PCT
The contract started in April 2005
The contract ends on 31-03-2010 subject to review
.
The cost of the contract is £175,000
The PCT currently is within budget.
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| 2885 | Peter Singh | Social care adults | | Adult services FOI request | 21-12-2009 | Supplied | 21-12-2009 | To whom it may concern,
Please find below a list of questions we would be grateful if you could answer regarding your services for adults with learning disabilities, please do not hesitate to contact me if there are any problems with this request.
1. How much has the Authority budgeted to spend on services for people with a learning disability during 2009/10?
2. Of the budget identified in Q1, How many providers have
Less than 10% of the business?
Between 10% and 30% and who are they?
More than 30% and who are they?
3. How many people with learning disabilities were receiving a service funded by the authority on 1 July 2009?
If Dimensions is already on your Framework for adult services, you do not need to answer questions 4 and 5.
4. Does the Local Authority have a Framework Agreement for services for people with learning disabilities?
5. If the Local Authority does have a Framework Agreement for services for people with learning disabilities,
How many providers are listed?
When can a new provider apply to join the list?
We appreciate your time,
Kind regards,
Alex Lee | 1. How much has the Authority budgeted to spend on services for people with a learning disability during 2009/10?
Total gross expenditure budget 2009/10 on learning disability clients was £21,118,463
2. Of the budget identified in Q1, How many providers have
Less than 10% of the business?
62
Between 10% and 30% and who are they?
1- Support for Living
More than 30% and who are they?
0
3. How many people with learning disabilities were receiving a service funded by the authority on 1 July 2009?
There were 267 peoplein the community receiving an ongoing service from the Council as at 1st July (nearest available figures were from 6th July). There were another 126 people in residential and nursing care at that date. TOTAL: 393.
4. Does the Local Authority have a Framework Agreement for services for people with learning disabilities?
No
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| 2884 | Shirley Jenkins | Environment | | Dangerous Wild Animals | 25-11-2009 | Supplied | 25-11-2009 | >>> Jasper Copping <[email address]> 24/11/2009 15:38 >>>
Dear Sir / Madam,
Under the Freedom of Information Act, please can you provide me with details
of all animals currently licensed by your authority under the Dangerous Wild
Animals Act.
Please provide the species and precise numbers of animals.
Please also indicate cases where several animals may be kept by the same
owner.
*Please note that I do not seek any information that might lead to the
disclosure of the identity of the keeper.*
Yours sincerely,
Jasper Copping
020 7931 3565 or 077958 14411 | WE have no licences issued under this legislation
P Sivashankar | 4 |
| 2883 | Shirley Jenkins | Transport and Streets | | National Grid Works | 16-12-2009 | Supplied | 16-12-2009 | >>> Julia Bunting <[email address]> 23/11/2009 13:44 >>>
Dear Sir/Madam
Re: High Street, Wealdstone, Harrow
Our Ref: NG/3
Please could you tell us, under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, the specific start and end dates (or suggested end dates if works haven't finished) for all major road works, undertaken by National Grid Gas in High Street, Wealdstone since 1st April 2009 to date.
We thank you for your assistance in this matter and look forward to your reply, and in the meantime, if you need to contact us, please call 01621 869115.
With thanks and kind regards,
Amanda Page
Heathrose Services Ltd
Email: [email address]
Office: 01621 869115
3, The Business Centre, High Hall, Oxley Hill, Maldon, Essex CM9 8ES
Registered Office: 1 Lodge Court Lodge Lane Langham Colchester Essex CO4 5NE Reg. No. 06313570
| Dear Ms Bunting
Your ref NG/3
Thank you for your freedom of information request, which has been passed to me for attention.
Harrow Council London has only received 1 single notification of major gas works in High Street Wealdstone since 1st April 2009.
The details are as follows:
National Grid Gas works reference number. AZ007L9E5120520
Estimated Start Date. 6 April 2009
Actual Start Date. 9 April 2009
Proposed End Date. 23 December 2009
Location Description. Odd Side from outside 55a to junction with Whitefriars Drive and Even side from Spencer Road to junction of Grant Road.
Works Description. Lay 450 metres of 140mm main and 700 metres of 225mm main by insertion and opencut method. Make complex connections. Works to be carried out in conjunction with High Road and Locket Road.
If you require any further information or wish to discuss this matter further, please do not hesitate to contact this office on 020 8424 1884
Yours Sincerely
Ian Slaney
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| 2882 | Shirley Jenkins | Environment | | CCTV Cameras | 07-12-2009 | Supplied | 01-12-2009 | >>> "Jenner, Tom" <[email address]> 19/11/2009 19:01 >>>
I wish to make a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act. I need the following information:
* How many CCTV cameras do you own and operate?
* How many hours of live footage are monitored each week?
**Please include full details of any outsourcing arrangements**
**Pleas include full details of any geographical variations within your area**
* How much does your CCTV system cost to run each year?
**Please include a cost breakdown if available - staffing costs, maintenance etc.**
Can you please acknowledge receipt of this email and return your response via email to this address ([email address]).
If you have any queries then I can be contacted on this email or on the telephone numbers below.
Kind Regards,
Tom Jenner
| >>> Roger Reeve 01/12/2009 11:09 >>>
Dear Mr Jenner,
Thank you for your recent enquiry made under the Freedom of Information Act.
My Answers:
1. At present this Council owns and operates 81 cameras located within the public highway
2. This Council aims to monitor 168 hours per week i.e. 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. However in the event of sickness etc, Harrow Police can monitor from Harrow Police Station in accordance with Partnership arrangements.
3. With exception to 2. (above) monitoring for crime related incidents is only carried out by qualified staff directly employed by this Council.
4. The majority of cameras are located within the town centres of Harrow and Wealdstone, and the main road connecting the two. Other cameras are located within the Roxborough Bridge pedestrian underpass system, and several car parks.
This borough has a number of satellite shopping areas located at South Harrow, North Harrow, Pinner and Stanmore. At present only South Harrow has CCTV cameras.
5. I supply a breakdown of costs for the last financial year(2008/9):-
Staffing £249,000
Maintenance £127,000 (includes fibre optic rental charges)
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| 2881 | Shirley Jenkins | Transport and Streets | | Garffiti / ASBOs | 07-01-2010 | Supplied | 07-01-2010 | >>> Martyn Smith <[email address]> 18/11/2009 11:13 >>>
Please could the Council say for the following periods:-
2007/2008
2008/2009
April 2009 to September 2009
How many fixed penalty notices have been served for the offence of graffiti under Section 43 of the Anti Social Behaviour Act 2003?
How many anti social behaviour orders have been secured, where graffiti was wholly or partly involved as an element of the order?
How many acceptable behaviour contacts have been secured , where graffiti was wholly or partly involved as an element of the contract?
What the whole Local Authority score for National Indicator 195 in terms of percentage of sites affected by graffiti defacement?
What resource is put into graffiti removal across the Local Authority?
An estimate of full time equivalent officer input would be sufficient.
Does any specific activity related to tackling graffiti form part of any Local Area Agreement you are party to? If so, please will you state the wording of the LAA indicator(s) concerned.
Please Note
I require, nor request any personal information.
If there are any problems with this request or you require clarification, please do not hesitate to contact me on this email address.
If my request is denied in whole or in part in terms of the exemptions set out in the Act regarding your estimating that the cost of compliance would exceed the appropriate limit, I would ask that you simultaneously provide me with an estimate of the total cost of compliance, so that this can be considered.
I understand that under the Act, I am entitled to a response within 20 working days.
Thank you for your assistance.
| 1. No FPNs have been served for graffiti offences in the requested periods.
2. One ASBO in each of 2007/8 and 2008/9 was.
3. Three ABC contracts in each of 2007/8 and 2008/9 were secured with graffiti as an element
4. 07/08 8.00%; 08/09 7.89%; 09/09 7.00%
5. 07/08 2.3 - full time equivalents; 08/09 4.3 - full time equivalents; 09/09 4.3 - full time equivalents
6. I attached a document listing LLA targets, for graffiti please refer to page 8.
Letter written and sent by Andy Appleby
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| 2866 | Shirley Jenkins | Leisure | | Library visits/costs etc. | 23-11-2009 | Supplied | 23-11-2009 | Dear FOI Officer,
a) How many library service points were there in your local authority area in 1997, and how many are there today?
b) How many registered library users are there today? (Broken down by age if possible.)
c) How many library visits have been recorded in each year for the past five years? Please break visitor numbers down by age, if possible.
d) How many books have been issued by your libraries in each of the past five years?
e) What is the total number of books currently stocked by libraries in your local authority area?
f) What was the gross expenditure on libraries in the previous financial year (2008-09) and what is estimated gross expenditure for 2009-10?
g) What has been the total income of libraries in your local authority this year (2008-09) and what is the total estimated income for 2009-10?
h) What was the total expenditure on staff in the financial year 2008-09? What is the estimated expenditure on staff for 2009-10?
i) How many staff have been employed in libraries in your local authority in each of the past five years?
If you cannot provide data for the period requested, then please provide the most recently available figures.
I would prefer to receive this information by email. Otherwise, please send hardcopies to: Oliver Campion-Awwad, Office of Don Foster MP, Room 380 Portcullis House, House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA.
If I can help to clarify this request please telephone me on 0207 219 4805 or contact me by email at [email address].
If you deny all or any part of this request, please cite each specific exemption you think justifies your refusal to release the information and notify me of appeal procedures available under the law.
Yours Sincerely
Oliver Campion-Awwad
| a) How many library service points were there in your local authority area in 1997, and how many are there today?
1997 - 11 2009 - 11
b) How many registered library users are there today? (Broken down by age if possible.)
Active users 59,035 (library memberships that have been activated in the last 12 months) No breakdown available.
c) How many library visits have been recorded in each year for the past five years? Please break visitor numbers down by age, if possible.
2004/5 1,801,540
2005/6 1,886,768
2006/7 1,934,712
2007/8 2,051,065
2008/9 1,686,828 (temporary closure of Central library and relocation, change of accounting method)
d) How many books have been issued by your libraries in each of the past five years?
2004/5 1,632,029
2005/6 1,636,662
2006/7 1,638,797
2007/8 1,545,357
2008/9 1,495,749
e) What is the total number of books currently stocked by libraries in your local authority area?
396,110
f) What was the gross expenditure on libraries in the previous financial year (2008-09) and what is estimated gross expenditure for 2009-10?
2008/9 actual £5,732,657
2009/10 estimate £5,900,000
g) What has been the total income of libraries in your local authority this year (2008-09) and what is the total estimated income for 2009-10?
2008/9 actual £489,055
2009/10 estimate £475,000
h) What was the total expenditure on staff in the financial year 2008-09? What is the estimated expenditure on staff for 2009-10?
2008/9 actual £3,212,820
2009/10 estimate £3,075,000
i) How many staff have been employed in libraries in your local authority in each of the past five years?
2004/5 120.1 FTE
2005/6 116.8 FTE
2006/7 111.9 FTE
2007/8 108 FTE
2008/9 108 FTE
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| 2865 | Kulwinder Singh-Rai | Housing | | VACANT 1 BEDROOM FLATS IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF HARROW | 11-02-2010 | Supplied | 17-12-2009 | I WOULD LIKE THE INFORMATION OF ALL THE VACANT 1 BEDROOM FLATS IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF HARROW, INCLUDING THE ADDRESES | pragna dhamji | 4 |
| 2864 | Shirley Jenkins | Environment | | Freedom of information request for details of Closed Circuit Television | 21-12-2009 | Supplied | 17-12-2009 | Dear Sir/Madam,
Freedom of information request for details of Closed Circuit Television
I am writing to obtain information about Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) controlled by Harrow Council.
To outline my query as clearly as possible, I am requesting:
1. The total number of public space CCTV cameras controlled by Harrow Council, on 1 October 2009.
2. If it exists, a copy of any internal guidance on CCTV usage
My preferred format to receive this information is electronically, but if that is not possible I will gladly accept hard copies. I understand that under the Freedom of Information Act, I am entitled to a response within 20 working days. I would be grateful if you could confirm in writing that you have received this request as soon as possible.
Kind regards,
Alexander Deane
Director Big Brother Watch
Barrister-at-law
| Dear Mr Deane
Ref:2864 Freedom of Information request for details of Closed Circuit Television
Thank you for your recent enquiry made under the Freedom of Information Act.
Your questions are:
1. The total number of public space CCTV cameras controlled by Harrow Council, on 1st October 2009.
2. If it exists, a copy of any internal guidance on CCTV usage.
My answers:
1. This Council operated 81 cameras located within the public highway at 1st October 2009.
2. This Council does issue an internal procedural document for use by CCTV operators. As the document is populated with names and contact details of both CCTV and Police staff, I attach a copy of the model document used.
If you are unhappy with the service you have received in relation to your request and wish to make a complaint or request a review of our decision, you should write to the Head of Community Safety Services at the address below.
London Borough of Harrow, Community Safety Services, PO Box 38, Civic Centre, Station Road, Harrow, HA1 2UZ
If you are not content with the outcome of your complaint, you may apply directly to the Information Commissioner (IC) for a decision. Generally, the IC cannot make a decision unless you have exhausted the complaints procedure provided by this Council. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at: The Information Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF
Roger Reeve
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| 2863 | Kulwinder Singh-Rai | Housing | | VACANT 5 BEDROOM COUNCIL HOUSES | 15-02-2010 | Supplied | 17-12-2009 | CAN I HAVE THE UP TODATE LIST/ INFORMATION OF VACANT 5 BEDROOM COUNCIL HOUSES IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF HARROW. | by pragna dhamji | 4 |
| 2862 | Isabella Ogo-Uzodike | Business | | environmental information | 23-11-2009 | Supplied | 23-11-2009 | Dear John Mann MP
Thank you for your foi act 2000 request dated 22/10/09.
Please accept my apologies for the delay in getting this information to you. The information is held by more then one department and it was necessary to liaise with others to provide a single comprehensive reply.
Your request is : Under the FoI act 2000 please provide yearly figures for 2005 to 2009 for the following?
Number of times EHO`s have?
Intervened due to continuation of fireworks after curfew that was deemed a nuisance?...0
Acted upon violations under environmental protection act 1990?...We do not record information to satisfy this request. The wording of this request is too broad for a credible response. Please resubmit using more specific wording, for example number of Abatement Notices served, prosecutions initiated or first responses made.
Number of times social landlords have
Applied to the courts for injunctions to prohibit ASB in their housing, under clause 13 of the ASB act 2003 ?...1 for 2009. We do not hold the information for all social landlords, only for housing within our own stock.
The number of times the council has:
Ordered owners to remove graffiti/fly posting from their property under section 48,49,50,51 of the ASB act 2003?.....0
Ordered owners to clear waste from their land under the CNEA 2005?...0
Acted under the CNEA 2005 to remove abandoned vehicles?... 0
Acted under the environmental protection act 1990 to deal with nuisance neighbours?...We do not record information to satisfy this request. The wording of this request is too broad for any credible response. Please submit using more specific wording, for example number of Abatement Notices served, prosecutions initiated or first responses made.
Applied for anti social behaviour orders?... 1 in 2006 and 1 in 2009
Granted Antisocial Behaviour? 1 in 2006 and 1 in 2009
If you are able to make future requests by email that would be beneficial and help speed-up a reply
Regards
Taiq Chowdry MSc
Service Manager
Community & Environment Service
Harrow Council
Harrow, HA1 2UT
[email address]
(T) 020 8736 6236 (F) 0845 280 1845
(M) 07817 233 029 | Response supplied by Taiq Chowdry. | 4 |
| 2861 | Isabella Ogo-Uzodike | Business | | Information regarding your HR & Payroll | 08-12-2009 | Supplied | 08-12-2009 | I would like to know the following information related to your Payroll and HR Services:
1. How many employees are there on your payroll?
2. Are the services outsourced to any private/public sector service providers? If yes, what is the name of the organisation?
3. If it is an outsourced service provider, could you please let us know the length of the contract as well as your satisfaction with the services?
4. If the services are provided by your in house team, could you please let us know what IT system (e.g. Sage, Star, Resourelink, Orcale etc.)you use for generation of Payroll? Also, please let us know the number of employee in this in house team looking after the HR & Payroll functions.
5. I would also like to know the if your HR and Payroll software system is linked with your finance system? If no, which finance system do you use? | Supplied by Danielle Kelly | 4 |
| 2847 | Peter Singh | Education | | Average funding of pupils | 01-12-2009 | Supplied | 01-12-2009 | I would like to make a request under the freedom of information act. I would
like some figures relating to mean per-pupil funding at different types of
school maintained by your authority, as outlined below:
1. Mean per-pupil funding at Academies and at all other types of
maintained school, split by stage as in the attachment
2. Where Academies exist within the authority, a breakdown of mean
per-pupil funding at each Academy, again split by stage as in the
attachment.
Where possible, I would like this information entered directly into the
attached spreadsheet, in the appropriate sheet numbered as above, and
returned to me. | Local Authority Mean per-pupil funding (Academies) Mean per-pupil funding (all other maintained schools)
Primary Secondary Primary(including nursery schools) Secondary Special
Harrow £0.00 £0.00 £3,770.00 £5,050.00 £18,250.00
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| 2846 | Peter Singh | Social care children | | Play funding and facilities | 11-01-2010 | Supplied | 30-11-2009 | I am sending an attached Freedom of Information request to your Council on the issue of Leisure Trusts and Grant Aid. This is in Microsoft Excel Format, allowing easier completion in a set format. Please return within the allowable period to this email address.
See paper file for questions | Called Jan Cosgrove to exaplin difficulties in supplying meaningful data which was also expereienced from most other LAs | 4 |
| 2845 | Claire Wilkinson | | | richards close development | 27-01-2010 | Supplied | 30-12-2009 | i want to see all corresponedence including letters, emails, telephone notes in connection with the above planning application | Dear Mr and Mrs Pindoria,
I write following your Freedom of Information request to review the file and all correspondence in respect of the planning application for the development at Richards Close. I am sorry that this was originally wrongly directed to another department and that by the time that it was received by the planning service, the application file and related documents had been sent to the investigator looking into the complaint.
Having now received the planning application file back from the investigator, it is available for inspection and I would invite you to contact Manize Talukdar on 020 8416 8225 or by e-mail to arrange for a convenient time for you to visit the office to review its content.
Yours sincerely
Stephen Kelly
Divisional Director - Planning
Place Shaping
Harrow Council
Tel: 0208 736 6149
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| 2843 | Peter Singh | Social care children | | Integrated Childrens System | 02-12-2009 | Supplied | 02-12-2009 |
How much has your authority spent on its Integrated Children¿s System in each of the past five years?
How many users does your Integrated Children¿s System currently have?
Who is the provider of your Integrated Children¿s System?
When did you implement your current Children's System? | Q1. How much has your authority spent on its Integrated Children¿s System in each of the past five years?
It is not possible to provide an accurate figure for expenditure on ICS as both Adults and Children¿s Services jointly fund a much wider computer system. This covers Adults Social Care, contact point, finance modules, Personalisation, parking badges, some hardware maintenance costs, the interface costs for Homecare provision, ICS and other modules
Q2. How many users does your Integrated Children¿s System currently have?
There are approximately 120 users of ICS
Q3. Who is the provider of your Integrated Children¿s System?
The provider is Corelogic
Q4. When did you implement your current Children's System?
2006
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| 2842 | Taiq Chowdry Taiq Chowdry | Environment | Environmental Health | FAO Environment Dept/Food Safety | 12-11-2009 | Supplied | 12-11-2009 | FAO Environment Dept/Food Safety
Dear Sir/Madam
I would like to request the details of all businesses registered with you,
whose information is kept as part of the Food Premises Registration
maintained by your borough.
If a full extract of the information is not possible, then the following
details are requested.
Name of business
Address of business
Telephone number
The Type of Food Business Registered
The following information can be returned by email in .csv/excel or word
format to [email address]
Many thanks in advance
Yvonne Thompson
21 Vicarage Lane
Great Baddow
Chelmsford
Essex
01245610108
| Good Morning
I have been asked to respond to you request below. Please find below the relevant extract from the Councils Fees and Charges document relating to your request:
Under the food regulations, members of the public can inspect the register held by the Council free of charge, but a charge may be made for providing copies of entries. The information held on the register may be of particular interest to commercial concerns for promotional mail-shots, etc. The fee scale reflects this while not being onerous to enquirers seeking information about specific premises. The charges are in line with those of other Authorities. The Register contains in the order of 1,300 entries.
a) Single entry (up to 100 entries) £3.20
b) Part Register (101-300 entries) £300.00
c) Part/Whole Register (301-last entry) £777.00
Therefore, based on the above, you can make an appointment to come into to the office to view the register for free, and the above charges are made should you require any copies. Should you wish to make an appointment, please contact the Department on 020 8736 6226.
Kind Regards
Richard Le-Brun
Team Leader (Food Safety)
London Borough of Harrow
tel: 020 8 736 6267
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| 2841 | Peter Singh | Education | | Compromise agreements | 07-12-2009 | Supplied | 07-12-2009 | Under the FOI Act 2000, I would like to know how many teachers, and
Head Teachers have:
1) Signed a compromise agreement since September 2004.
2) How many of these resulted in the termination of their
employment with yourselves, the council.
3) How long they had been working for the Educational Service in
your Council.
4) How old they were on their day of leaving.
|
1. 14 teachers and no head teachers have signed a compromise agreement since January 2006.
2. Of these, 10 resulted in the termination of the teacher's employment with the council.
3. Of these 14 teachers; 4 had between 0-5 years' service; 8 between 5-10 years' service and 2 between 15-20 years' service.
4. Of the 10 teachers who left the council's employment 1 was under 30 years of age; 4 were between 30-39 years of age; 2 were between 40-49 years of age; 2 were between 50 and 59 years of age; and 1 was over 60.
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| 2840 | Peter Singh | Social care children | | Housing for failed asylum seekers | 09-11-2009 | Supplied | 04-11-2009 | Further to the FOI on the costs of housing failed asylum seekers (below)
which was received by your authority on 30 October 2009, please treat the
time period referred to in the request as the 12 months ending 31 October
2009.
How many failed asylum seekers were housed by the authority after failing in
their asylum applications in the year ending October 2009? What was the cost
of this to the authority? Did the authority get any financial compensation
for housing them? If so, how much and where from?
Were any other forms of support provided to them? If so, what and how much
did they cost? Does the authority get any compensation for supporting them
in these ways? If so, how much and where from? | There were no (zero) failed Asylum Seekers housed by Harrow Council in the year ending 31st October 2009.
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| 2839 | Shirley Jenkins | Transport and Streets | | Highways Act Sec 38 | 12-11-2009 | Supplied | 12-11-2009 | Dear FOI Officer
Highways Act (as amended) Section 38
Please kindly provide me with details of all s.38 highway adoption agreements entered into between the authority and developers within the 12 month period from 1 January 2008 to 31 December 2008.
The key data I am seeking is listed below. A schedule is also attached which may be helpful for assembling the information. Please would you respond by email.
1. Name of developer
2. Contact details of developer to include
(a) Contact name
(b) Address
(c) Telephone number
(d) Email
3. Location of development site
4. Date of agreement
5 Estimated amount of bond
6. Whether the development is residential, commercial or mixed use.
7. Scale of development, e.g number of dwellings; sq ft of commercial space
8. Whether the drawings include details of site vision / splay
No copies of plans or agreements are required.
Please would you respond by email. If this information is held with a different authority, I would appreciate it if you would forward this request to the relevant person.
Many thanks,
Dr Clare Duncan
| Dear Dr Duncan
In response to your email of 3/11/09 requesting information under the Freedom of Information Act I can advise that according to our records, No section 38 agreements were entered into during the period Jan - Dec 2008.
Kind regards
A Donetti
Team Leader (Acting)
Contracts & Drainage
Property & Infrastructure
London Borough of Harrow
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| 2838 | Claire Wilkinson | Environment | Conservation | No of BC full applications | 03-11-2009 | Supplied | 03-11-2009 | I am writing to request information under the freedom of information
act. If you are not the correct addressee for this request, I would be
grateful if you could inform me of the correct e-mail address to use,
and / or forward this request to the correct person.
I would be grateful to know the following information:
1) The number of purchase invoices processed by your authority in
2008/09
2) The percentage of purchase invoices paid by your authority within
30 days (the old Best Value Performance Indicator no 8) in 2008/09
3) The number of sundry debtor invoices raised by your authority in
2008/09
4) The number of full plans processed by your building control team in
2008/09
Thank you very much for your assistance.
Kind regards
Guy Duncan
VfM Data Limited
| Hi Isabella.
The number of full plans application received in Building Control between 1st April 2008 and 31st March 2009 was 967.
Regards.
Stuart. | 4 |
| 2837 | Kulwinder Singh-Rai | Housing | | web team test | 21-01-2010 | Supplied | 21-01-2010 | web team test | test case only | 4 |
| 2822 | Peter Singh | Social care adults | | Halal food policy | 27-11-2009 | Supplied | 27-11-2009 | I would like details of the Borough¿s policy on Halal food in
school and college restaurants, cafes and cafeteria.
Specifically:
(i) Is there a policy in any establishments that only Halal
products are to be used?
(ii) When sausages are served are only beef sausages used as part
of a Halal policy?
(iii) Is pork ham excluded from the menu as part of any Halal
policy?
(iv) Are certificates display on the walls of dining rooms etc.
stating that all meat products are from Halal butchers?
If a policy is in place then I would like to know:
1. When was this policy introduced?
2. To what proportion of all the Boroughs education establishments
does the policy apply? This should be expressed s a percentage.
3. A list of all the establishments where any such policy has been
implemented. This can consist simply of a list of names of the
establishments.
| The in-house service only provides hot lunches to two primary schools in Harrow & a chilled packed lunch to 20 schools that have no kitchen on site. All others including the high schools have out-side contractor or are making their own arrangements.
The Hot Lunch Menu the council provides to the two schools does not provide for Halal but I can inform you that pork or any sausages are not on the menu. The Packed/Chilled menu includes the option for Halal each day, I have attached both menu's.
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| 2821 | Shirley Jenkins | Transport and Streets | | Yellow Lines / Parking Restrictions | 04-11-2009 | Supplied | 04-11-2009 | Dear Sir/Madam,
Under the Freedom of Information Act, please can the following be provided to me in an electronic or paper format:
A list of every: single yellow line, double yellow line, single red line, and double red line road markings within the borough (excluding private roads) showing:
The starting and end location (either street number, address and postcode, or GPS coordinates)
Times and days restrictions applyThe cost of parking here beyond the restricted times/days above, if any.A list of every public parking bay provided by the council within the borough showing:
The location (either street number, address and postcode, or GPS coordinates)
Times and days restrictions applyThe various prices charged for parking at this bay
| Dear Mr Johnson
Thank you for your Freedom of Information Request dated 28th October 2009.
Please find attached the "as amended" versions of all traffic orders meeting the criteria requested. These files are as amended, which means where applicable they include any amendments made to the parent orders by amendment orders. This cuts down the number of files to be sent by not needing to send all the amendment orders too, and simplifies the assimilation of information considerably. Files are titled when opened but named by reference.
There are no red lines in the borough.
This information has been provided by Duncan Parnell, Order Maker.
The other document is the Parking in Harrow booklet that covers public parking places and costs, we do not currently have an electronic copy, but we have printed copies. Andy Appleby, our public realm enforcement officer will send one to you in the post.
I hope that this information is helpful, however if you should have any further queries please do not hesitate to contact me.
Shirley Jenkins
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| 2820 | Shirley Jenkins | Environment | | Alcohol Free Zones | 04-11-2009 | Supplied | 04-11-2009 | >>> David Turner <[email address]> 27/10/2009 13:40 >>>
Dear Sir/Madam,
I would like to make a request under the Freedom of Information Act.
1. Is the council planning on introducing any alcohol free zones (if it has not already) and if so where would they be?
2. If yes to question 1, has the council retrained/recruited any staff to help enforce these areas and if so how many have been retrained/recruited?
3. If yes to question 2, how much is the council is spending training/recruiting such staff?
4. If yes to question 2, what powers will staff have to deter public drinking in alcohol-free zones?
5. Will there be any penalties for those caught with unopened alcohol in the alcohol-free zones and if so what will they be?
Yours,
David Turner | P Sivashankar
Service Manager Licensing Officer
Licensing, Private Sector Housing Enforcement and Support Services
Community Safety Services. | P O Box 18, Civic Centre, Harrow. HA1 2UT
+44 (0)208 736 6237 | + 44-845 280 1845 | [email address]
>>> David Turner <[email address]> 27/10/2009 13:40 >>>
Dear Sir/Madam,
I would like to make a request under the Freedom of Information Act.
1. Is the council planning on introducing any alcohol free zones (if it has not already) and if so where would they be? The Council already have a DPPO.
2. If yes to question 1, has the council retrained/recruited any staff to help enforce these areas and if so how many have been retrained/recruited?None, as the responsibility of enforcement fall with Met Police
3. If yes to question 2, how much is the council is spending training/recruiting such staff?
4. If yes to question 2, what powers will staff have to deter public drinking in alcohol-free zones?
5. Will there be any penalties for those caught with unopened alcohol in the alcohol-free zones and if so what will they be? Penalties as per Regulation.
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| 2820 | Taiq Chowdry Taiq Chowdry | Environment | Environmental Health | Alcohol Free Zones | 12-11-2009 | Supplied | 12-11-2009 | >>> David Turner <[email address]> 27/10/2009 13:40 >>>
Dear Sir/Madam,
I would like to make a request under the Freedom of Information Act.
1. Is the council planning on introducing any alcohol free zones (if it has not already) and if so where would they be?
2. If yes to question 1, has the council retrained/recruited any staff to help enforce these areas and if so how many have been retrained/recruited?
3. If yes to question 2, how much is the council is spending training/recruiting such staff?
4. If yes to question 2, what powers will staff have to deter public drinking in alcohol-free zones?
5. Will there be any penalties for those caught with unopened alcohol in the alcohol-free zones and if so what will they be?
Yours,
David Turner | Dear David Turner,
Thank you for your foi dated 27/10/09
Your request is recorded as follows:
Dear Sir/Madam,
I would like to make a request under the Freedom of Information Act.
1. Is the council planning on introducing any alcohol free zones (if it has not already) and if so where would they be?
2. If yes to question 1, has the council retrained/recruited any staff to help enforce these areas and if so how many have been retrained/recruited?
3. If yes to question 2, how much is the council is spending training/recruiting such staff?
4. If yes to question 2, what powers will staff have to deter public drinking in alcohol-free zones?
5. Will there be any penalties for those caught with unopened alcohol in the alcohol-free zones and if so what will they be?
Yours,
David Turner
Our reply is as follows:
1. All business premises in Harrow were inspected over the year 2007/2008 to ensure that the correct signage was displayed on the premises and in the correct places.
2. Aproximately 75 were not displaying the signage correctly. All were asked to re-position and then complied.
3. Approximately 15. Most complied when the offence was pointed out.
4. Eight fixed penalty notices were issued to repeat offenders.
5. All council vehicles checked and comply.
6. No vehicle owners have been served with fixed penalty notices.
7. No personal fixed penalty notices have been served.
8. One Court case brought against a Shisha premises for failing to pay the fixed penalty
notice. This was settled out of court.
P Coates
Licensing Enforcement Officer
London Borough of Harrow
020 8736 6261
[email address]
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| 2819 | Shirley Jenkins | Environment | | Anti Social Behaviour | 07-12-2009 | Supplied | 27-11-2009 | See letter dated 22/10/09
Yearly figures for 2005 to 2009 for:
No. of time EH officers have:
1. Intervened due to continuation of fireworks after curfew - deemed a nuisance
2. Acted upon noise violations
3. Applied to the courts for injunctions to prohibit antisocial behaviour in their housing
4. Ordered owners to remove graffiti/fly posting from their property
5. Ordered owners to clear waste from their land
6. Removed abandonded vehicles
7. Applied for ASBOs
9. Granted ASBOs | First part responded to on 12/11/09:
1. 0
2. Too broad - resubit question
3. We do not hold this information
4. 0
5. 0
6. 0
7. Too broad - please resubmit
8. 1 in 2006 and 1 in 2009
9. 1 in 2006 and 1 in 2009
2nd Part responded to on 27/11/09
With regard to your foi request and clarification to questions 2 and 7 the request was summarised as:
The part of the EPA 1990 relating to noise or statutory nuisance is enforced by EHO,s and therefore all such interventions made by EHO,s would necessarily be an inclusive answer for the whole Council.
The answer to question (2) above would be the same as the answer for (7) above.
I have tabulated the results onto the attached file
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| 2818 | Claire Wilkinson | | | Becket Fold | 27-01-2010 | Supplied | 09-12-2009 | All correspondence including e-mails, reports, drawings/plans and all other associated documents relating to the application for and granting of planning permission for the construction of bungalows on the rear and side garden of No 6 Courtfield Crescent, Harrow, the bungalows subsequently known as Nos 5 -14 Becket Fold. | See letter in file 9th Dec 09 | 4 |
| 2817 | Peter Singh | Education | | Over subscribed schools | 04-11-2009 | Supplied | 04-11-2009 | The 5 most-oversubscribed state schools in your area (in terms of absolute number of applicants rejected)
For each of these schools, the admissions criteria in the case of over-subscription
For each of these schools, the distance from the school to the home of the student who lives furthest from the school.
| For 2009-10 High School Transfer (12+ Process) the five most subscribed schools where the school was named as a first preference were:
Park High School
Nower Hill High School
Whitmore High School
Hatch End High School
Bentley Wood Girls High School
There were no applications rejected
The admissions criteria for 2009-10 12+ Allocation Process
If more applications are received in any one criterion than there are places available the tiebreaker of distance (miles) from home to school, measured in a straight line will be applied.
a) Looked after children
b) Medical reasons relevant to pupil
c) Medical reasons relevant to parent(s)
d) Sibling link (brothers or sisters attending the High School at the same time)
e) Children attending a primary school linked to the High School
f) Distance from home to school measured in a straight line (miles)
Once applications with a higher priority (Admissions Criteria a to e above) have been accounted for, remaining applicants are processed under Admissions Criterion (f) Distance, Under Criterion (f) the last child to be offered a place lives at a distance of:
Park High 1.085
Nower Hill 1.042
Whitmore 0.575
Hatch End High 1.543
Bentley Wood 9.058*
* For Bentley Wood, criterion (f) Distance, does not apply - once all higher priority applications have been accounted for (in criteria a ¿ e), any remaining places will be offered to applicants via a random computer selection. The reason for the use of random allocation for Bentley Wood is because it is the only maintained all girls school and does not have link schools.
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| 2816 | Peter Singh | Education | | Exclusions | 09-11-2009 | Supplied | 09-11-2009 | How many primary school pupils in your area received fixed period exclusions 5 or more times in the 2008/9 academic year?
2. How many primary school pupils in your are were given a fixed period exclusion for physically assaulting another pupil in the 2008/9 academic year?
3. How many primary school pupils in your area were given a fixed period exclusion for physically assaulting an adult in the 2008/9 academic year?
4. How many primary school pupils in your are were given a fixed period exclusion for persistent disruptive behaviour in the 2008/9 academic year? | Q1. How many primary school pupils in your area received fixed period exclusions 5 or more times in the 2008/9 academic year?
A1. 2 pupils
Q2. How many primary school pupils in your area were given a fixed period exclusion for physically assaulting another pupil in the 2008/9 academic year?
A2. 33 pupils
Q3. How many primary school pupils in your area were given a fixed period exclusion for physically assaulting an adult in the 2008/9 academic year?
A3. 15 pupils
Q4. How many primary school pupils in your area were given a fixed period exclusion for persistent disruptive behaviour in the 2008/9 academic year?
A4. 19 pupils
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| 2815 | Peter Singh | Education | | Elective Home Education costs | 18-11-2009 | Supplied | 18-11-2009 | Please could you tell me the total annual budget of your Elective Home
Education Department for the last 3 financial years (2006-07, 2007-08 and
2008-09)?
For each of the years, please could you tell me how much money was spent on
the following items:
1. Salaries & other staffing costs
2. Accommodation
3. Office equipment (including computers & stationery)
4. Postage
5. Travelling costs
6. Practical support for home educators
| I can inform you that Harrow Council does not have a Elective Home Education Department or a distinct budget so we are not able to provide a breakdown of costs as you have requested. I still hope that this response is of use to you. | 4 |
| 2814 | Peter Singh | Education | | Teacher & assistants redundancies | 09-11-2009 | Supplied | 09-11-2009 | How many teachers a)were made redundant in academic year 2008/09 b)are expected to be made redundant in academic year 2009/10 c)are expected to be made redundant in academic year 2010-11?
How many teaching assistants a)were made redundant in academic year 2008/09 b)are expected to be made redundant in academic year 2009/10 c)are expected be made redundant in academic year 2010-11?
If you deny all or any part of this request, please cite each specific exemption you think justifies your refusal to release the information and notify me of appeal procedures available under the law. If you believe that this information can only be provided at a disproportionate cost, please cite calculations of the possible costs incurred, and/or provide any of the requested information that is readily available. | In response to your request on school redundancies I can inform you that in the academic year 2008/2009 one part time music teacher and one part time teaching assistant were made redundant. Both post holders were working at the same Voluntary aided school, and the redundancies were necessary reduce contributions affecting the budget. We do not anticipate any redundancies in 2009/2010 and there are no current planned redundancies for 2010/2011. | 4 |
| 2813 | Peter Singh | Education | | Teacher/staff suspensions | 06-11-2009 | Supplied | 06-11-2009 | I would like to know how many teachers and staff working at schools across the borough have been suspended since January 1 2007.
This should be broken down by:
-date
-the job title of the staff member
-the reason for the suspension
-length of suspension
-the outcome of the suspension
-the name of the school
If naming the school would identify the staff member please leave in the job title but leave out the school name. | See paper file - data too large for database | 4 |
| 2798 | Peter Singh | Education | | Teacher/school worker suspensions | 27-10-2009 | Supplied | 27-10-2009 | The number and proportion of Newly Qualified Teachers (NQTs) that have
failed in the Authority in each of the last 5 years | Hi Sam, in reponse to your FOI query I can confirm that no NQTs have failed in the authroity during the last 5 years. I hope this information is of help to you, regards, Peter | 4 |
| 2797 | Peter Singh | Social care children | | Children in care for obesity | 09-11-2009 | Supplied | 04-11-2009 | 1. How many children did you take into care (either interim or full) in the
last financial year (08/09) where the obesity of the child was sited as a
factor in the care proceedings? If so please give (a) the age of the child
and (b) the BMI of the child.
|
There have been no (zero) children taken into care, where the child¿s obesity has played a key part in making the action necessary in the last financial year.
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| 2796 | Peter Singh | Education | | C Randall/SEN & other polocies | 01-12-2009 | Supplied | 01-12-2009 | This letter is a request for disclosure under the Education (Pupil Information)(England) Regulations 2005, the Data Protection Act 1998 and the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
Please supply as soon as possible copies of the following documents:
1. All Charlie¿s school records including special educational needs and disciplinary records.
2. School policies in relation to special educational needs, disability discrimination, accessibility, attendance and complaints.
3. Minutes of all meetings of the full Governing Body or Governors¿ Committees at which Charlie¿s attendance, special educational needs or discipline were discussed.
| Please find attached a copy of the school files that were held by Rooks Heath College, the council does not hold a copy of school records but I believe that these are the files you require.
Please note that Charlie Randall did not actually attend any lessons at Rooks Heath College and there are no Governing Body or Governors¿ Committee minutes about Charlie Randall, you can contact any other schools Charlie Randall has attended for such documents directly. Additionally, the council does not hold any school policies you have requested, but you can request these directly from any schools in Harrow, you can find a list of schools on the Harrow Council Website ¿ harrow.gov.uk
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| 2795 | Taiq Chowdry Taiq Chowdry | Environment | Environmental Health | Chicken Complaints | 07-12-2009 | Supplied | 07-12-2009 | We request to see the complaints log filled in by the person who made the complaint against us. We also wish to see the original complaint and would like to request the name and address of the person | 26th October 2009Our ref: EHS/AH/FOI 2795 Community & Environment ServicesFinlay FlettHead of Community Safety
Mr & Mrs Karaiskos56 Grosvenor AvenueHarrowMiddlesexHA2 7AN
Dear Mr and Mrs Karaiskos56 Grosvenor Avenue, Harrow ¿ Worksheet No: 000347948Freedom of Information Act 2000Request for information ¿ Ref FOI 2795 O:\wp\AH\ah9028.doc
I write further to your letter dated 1st September 2009 received on 26th October 2009, to provide you with a response to the following FOI enquiry:
We request to see the complaints log filled in by the person who made the complaint against us. We also wish to see the original complaint and we would like to request the name and address of the person.
In response to this request, I can advise as follows:
1. Copies of the record sheets received are attached for your information. With respect to any documents provided with this letter, certain areas that may contain personal information or relate to a third party and is information protected by the Data Protection Act 1998 has been removed.
2. We cannot provide you with the details of the complainant as this is personal information controlled under the Data Protection Act 1998.
I hope that this answers your enquiry and for information, I attach Annex A giving details of your rights if you are unhappy with any aspect of this decision.
Yours sincerely
Alex Hauck, Team Leader (Environmental Protection)
Community Safety, Community & Environment Services
Direct telephone: 020-8736 6247. Email: [email address]
Annex A
Complaints
You have the right to appeal against this decision to the Council¿s Director of Corporate Governance. If you decide to appeal you should put this in writing, setting out clearly the grounds on which your appeal is made. You should enclose any supporting documentation that you would like the Director of Corporate Governance to consider with your letter. Please send your written statement of appeal to:
Taiq Chowdry
Service Manager Commercial and Environmental Protection
Community Safety Services
P.O. Box 18
Civic Centre
HARROW
Middlesex
HA1 2UT
It is important to understand that the written notice of appeal must reach Taiq Chowdry within 15 working days of receipt of this letter. I must advise you that there is no provision for extending the 15-day period and your right to appeal expires on that date.
Alternatively, if you have not been satisfied with the standard of service you have received or how your request for information has been processed, you can make a complaint using the Council¿s corporate complaints procedure. (Information enclosed)
You also have the right to apply for a decision to the Information Commissioner when the Council¿s internal procedures have been exhausted. The contact details are:
FOI/EIR Complaints Resolution
Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
www.ico.gov.uk
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| 2794 | Claire Wilkinson | Environment | Planning | Search Information | 02-12-2009 | Supplied | 20-11-2009 | Freedom of Information Request
27 Lulworth Drive, Pinner, HA5 1NF
We would be grateful if you could please supply us with copies of any documentation relating to requests for search information submitted to the departments of Local Land Charges, Planning, Building Control, Highways and Environmental Health over the above subjects between 31st December 2008 and 20th October 2009.
We define requests for search information as requests for access and or provision of information suitable to respond to questions contained within form CON29R ?Enquiries of Local Authorities?. The categories of documentation we wish to obtain are either:-
Request forms; or
Receipts for payment of fees applicable for granting access or providing responses; or
where neither of the above are available, copies of written or electronic correspondence including requests for search information.
We thank you for your assistance with this matter and look forward to hearing from you.
Yours sincerely
Karen Bartke
| Dear Karen,
In responding to questions contained within form CON29R, the information is collated electronically from the Planning, Building Control, Highways and Environmental Health departments.
According to the Council's records no other requests were submitted to the Council during the specified period. The Planning, Building Control, Highways and Environmental Health departments have confirmed that they have not received any requests in relation to this property, within the specified period.
I hope that this information assists you with your enquiries.
Katherine Hamilton | 4 |
| 2793 | Shirley Jenkins | Transport and Streets | | Traffic Calming | 05-11-2009 | Supplied | 05-11-2009 | >>> ian johnston <[email address]> 20/10/2009 16:28 >>>
Dear Sir or Madam,
Under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act, I request the following
information:
a, the latest figure for the number of traffic calming measures on roads
controlled by your council, if possible broken down by type such as
speed/traffic humps, traffic tables or chicanes.
b, the number of such traffic calming measures installed in the latest year
for which there are figures, if possible broken down by type, and the total
cost of doing so.
c, the number of such traffic calming measures removed in the latest year
for which there are figures, if possible broken down by type, and the total
cost of doing so.
Regards,
--
Ian Johnston
reporter,
The Sunday Telegraph,
| Dear Mr Johnston,
I refer to your email dated 20 October 2009 regarding the above which has been forwarded to me to respond.
Please find below the answers to your questions:
a, the latest figure for the number of traffic calming measures on roads controlled by your council, if possible broken down by type such as speed/traffic humps, traffic tables or chicanes.
a) There are 13 no. 20mph zones in the borough each with vertical traffic calming features; 2 no. roads with horizontal traffic calming features and 46 no. roads with vertical traffic calming features. I have attached a PDF plan which shows the traffic calmed roads in Harrow for your reference.
For your information traffic calming features are categorised in the form of vertical measures which include all road humps and vertical measures which include chicanes or significance reduction in carriageway width. Road humps include round and flat topped humps, raised entry treatment, speed tables and speed cushions.
b, the number of such traffic calming measures installed in the latest year for which there are figures, if possible broken down by type, and the total cost of doing so.
b) The following schemes/measures were implemented in the 2008/9 financial year:
Kenmore Park 20mph zone - Flat top humps and speed cushions (£68,000)
Aylward School 20mph zone - Flat top humps and speed cushions (£63,000)
Grimsdyke School 20mph zone - Flat top humps and speed cushions (£85,000)
c, the number of such traffic calming measures removed in the latest year for which there are figures, if possible broken down by type, and the total cost of doing so.
c) No traffic calming measures have been removed in the current financial year.
Information supplied by Stephen Freeman
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| 2775 | Shirley Jenkins | Environment | | Assault on Refuse Collectors | 20-10-2009 | Supplied | 20-10-2009 | >>> "DataNews" <[email address]> 16/10/2009 17:19 >>>
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT REQUEST
1. In the last financial year (08/09) how many incidents did your authority record where refuse collectors were assaulted by members of the public while carrying out council duties? Please give a brief description of the circumstances of the incident.
2. How many working days were lost by refuse collectors during the last financial year (07/08) as a result of injuries connected with assaults from members of the public while carrying out council duties?
NOTE: By refuse collectors I mean all employees whose main duties are involved in the collection of rubbish (all types) from homes and businesses with your authority.
NOTE: If the refuse collection duties are carried out by a third party company hired by the council the information is still HELD by the council, because it is information held on your behalf.
Yours Sincerely,
Matthew Davis
DataNews Ltd
| Dear Matthew Davis
Please see below
1. For the financial year 2008/2009 there were no recorded assaults on Refuse Collectors by members of the public.
2. None
Alan Whiting
Service Manager
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| 2774 | Peter Singh | Social care adults | | idependant living -adaptations | 13-11-2009 | Supplied | 13-11-2009 | Dear Sir/Madam,
RE: Request for information under the Freedom of Information Act
I would like to request under the Freedom of Information Act answers to the following questions on procedures for home adaptations to help people live independently in their own homes in your local authority area.
For the (a) 2007-08; and (b) 2008-09 financial year:
1. Please state the (i) mean; (ii) median; and (iii) longest waiting time for home adaptations that were completed in each year, measuring the wait from the time of assessment by an occupational therapist to the time a disabled facilities grant was issued.
2. Please state the (i) mean; (ii) median; and (iii) longest waiting time for home adaptations that were completed in each year, measuring the wait from the time of assessment by an occupational therapist to the time the adaptations were completed.
3. Please state for each year how many people were taken into permanent residential care while still waiting for home adaptations.
4. For each year, please list the main reasons for the delay to the introduction of home adaptations.
Processing this request
I would like to be sent this material by email only, sent to [email address]<mailto:[email address]>
If you have any queries relating to this request or need clarification on any issue, I would be grateful if you could contact me (email: [email address]<mailto:[email address]>). If there is any refusal to part or all of my request, please could you provide me with a recommendation of how the request may be modified so as to be granted under Section 16 of the Act? In particular, where you judge that this request exceeds the cost limit, I would like you to provide me with advice on how I may modify the request so as to enable it to be granted.
May I take this opportunity to say how much I appreciate the time you give to responding to Freedom of Information act requests. The information you provide is always extremely useful and assists us greatly in our research and policy development. I am very grateful for your help.
Yours faithfully,
Eve Atkins
020 7984 8079
| See paper file - too large to fit | 4 |
| 2774 | Kulwinder Singh-Rai | Housing | | idependant living -adaptations | 21-01-2010 | Supplied | 13-11-2009 | Dear Sir/Madam,
RE: Request for information under the Freedom of Information Act
I would like to request under the Freedom of Information Act answers to the following questions on procedures for home adaptations to help people live independently in their own homes in your local authority area.
For the (a) 2007-08; and (b) 2008-09 financial year:
1. Please state the (i) mean; (ii) median; and (iii) longest waiting time for home adaptations that were completed in each year, measuring the wait from the time of assessment by an occupational therapist to the time a disabled facilities grant was issued.
2. Please state the (i) mean; (ii) median; and (iii) longest waiting time for home adaptations that were completed in each year, measuring the wait from the time of assessment by an occupational therapist to the time the adaptations were completed.
3. Please state for each year how many people were taken into permanent residential care while still waiting for home adaptations.
4. For each year, please list the main reasons for the delay to the introduction of home adaptations.
Processing this request
I would like to be sent this material by email only, sent to [email address]<mailto:[email address]>
If you have any queries relating to this request or need clarification on any issue, I would be grateful if you could contact me (email: [email address]<mailto:[email address]>). If there is any refusal to part or all of my request, please could you provide me with a recommendation of how the request may be modified so as to be granted under Section 16 of the Act? In particular, where you judge that this request exceeds the cost limit, I would like you to provide me with advice on how I may modify the request so as to enable it to be granted.
May I take this opportunity to say how much I appreciate the time you give to responding to Freedom of Information act requests. The information you provide is always extremely useful and assists us greatly in our research and policy development. I am very grateful for your help.
Yours faithfully,
Eve Atkins
020 7984 8079
| see previous event | 4 |
| 2773 | Peter Singh | Social care children | | Gagging orders | 27-10-2009 | Supplied | 27-10-2009 | In the wake of the people speaking out against the abuses of the
secret family courts and forced adoption of children to strangers,
instead of being retained within their real natural families. I
would like to know how your authority compares to others in
fulfilling your responsibilities to families & their children.
(a) How many individuals have been taken to court by your authority
in-order to gag them. To stop them from speaking out about the
injustices they have suffered at the hands of the council
children's social services and secret family courts. Provide all
records to-date that are held.
(b) How much did these gagging order injunctions cost the rate
payer.
(c) Who is responsible for actioning these enforcement orders by
the council, i.e. who signs the applications for court.
(d) How many parents /relatives/individuals have received further
sanctions for breaking these gagging orders.
(e) Are any of these decisions to gag/sanction taken by unelected
local authority officers responsible for children¿s social care,
finance, legal or any other relevant department.
(f) If councillors make these decisions at which meeting(s) are
these discussed.
| Mrs Docherty, in response to your FOI enquiry I can report that Harrow Council Has not sought any gagging orders. I hope this information is of help to you, regards, Peter | 4 |
| 2755 | Peter Singh | Education | | promotion of racism in | 27-10-2009 | Supplied | 27-10-2009 | By letter of 30 September 2009, The Secretary of State Ed Balls
appointed Maurice Smith to enquire into the "promotion of racism in
schools". Part of the review is aimed at determining whether
members of the British National Party (BNP) should be allowed to
work as teachers or in the wider school workforce.
Please provide the following information under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000.
1. Has your authority ever found a member of the BNP or any other
political Party guilty of a disciplinary offence related to their
Party membership in the last three years? If so please give
information as to when and how many.
2. Has any parent complained to you regarding the Party membership
of any employee or the expression of political views within School
classrooms under your authority during the last three years?
3. What safeguards do you currently have in place to prevent
members of any political Party promoting their views within
Schools?
| 1. Has your authority ever found a member of the BNP or any other political Party guilty of a disciplinary offence related to their Party membership in the last three years? If so please give information as to when and how many.
No
2. Has any parent complained to you regarding the Party membership of any employee or the expression of political views within School classrooms under your authority during the last three years?
All schools have their own complaints procedures and therefore the Council does not collate this data, however, the Service Manager for Complaints in Children's Services is not aware Officer of complaints of this nature coming to the Council since he took up his position in the last 3 years.
3. What safeguards do you currently have in place to prevent members of any political Party promoting their views within Schools?
All employees recieve a copy of the Model Code of Conduct for School Employees. | 4 |
| 2754 | Claire Wilkinson | Environment | Conservation | Section 106 Agreements | 03-11-2009 | Supplied | 21-10-2009 | Please accept a Freedom of Information request for the following information:
How much money has the council raised from section 106 agreements that has not yet been spent?
How much money raised from section 106 agreements has the council returned to developers because it has not been spent within the required timeframe? Please provide details of individual payments including amount of money, date and planning application reference.
Further to the below FOI request sent to your authority yesterday, please be advised that the timeframe my request refers to is the last five years. Thank you.
Thank you.
Mark Wilding
Reporter, Planning
|
Thank you for your email dated 8th October 2009, in which you have requested the following information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000:
¿How much money has the council raised from section 106 agreements that has not yet been spent?
How much money raised from section 106 agreements has the council returned to developers because it has not been spent within the required timeframe? Please provide details of individual payments including amount of money, date and planning application reference.
¿Please be advised that the timeframe my request refers to is the last five years.¿
Report attached within the five year timeframe plus a further report on contributions returned to developers that was not spent within the specified timeframe.
Yours sincerely
Lyn Anderson
S.106 Monitoring Officer
| 4 |
| 2753 | Peter Singh | Social care children | | Copy of response for FOI 2691 | 27-10-2009 | Supplied | 20-10-2009 | Please supply the Local Authority response made to Graham Badman's
call on 17 September 2009 for further evidence regarding the Report
into Home Education.
| S Tyler, I have checked with senior members of staff and can report that they do not recall a request for further information and therefore did not respond, kind regards, Peter | 4 |
| 2752 | Peter Singh | Social care children | | Child Incidents and Downgrading of SCRs | 20-10-2009 | Supplied | 20-10-2009 | Please indicate the numbers of references to the CSCI/Ofsted/DCSF child incidents database since 2005, by accounting year subsequent to the death of a child.
2. Please indicate how many Serious Case Reviews have been initiated by your Safeguarding Board and then downgraded on the advice of others
3. Please give the list of references as above giving the month and date of the child's death and the age of the child.
4. For each downgraded SCR please indicate who instructed your authority to downgrade the serious case review.
| 1 and 2. None
3 and 4. N/A | 4 |
| 2751 | Isabella Ogo-Uzodike | Council and Democracy | | Councillor Hours | 04-11-2009 | Supplied | 09-10-2009 | I would like to know the contracted weekly and monthly hours for Cllr Jeremy Zeid. I need to know how many hours a week he is contracted to work as a Cllr and what his core working hours are - i.e. does he have to be in an office or is he paid to work (wherever he deems fit) within certain hours. If he works flexible hours then could you please provide me with a breakdown of his hours day by day since employment. | Response provided by Legal & Governance (Pauline Ferris) | 4 |
| 2750 | Peter Singh | Social care children | | Social worker - pet checks | 14-10-2009 | Supplied | 14-10-2009 | Social workers told to check pets
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/oct/04/social-workers-check-pets-fridges
and http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8290784.stm
After today's reports of your new social worker "ticklist" and
paper work for home visits, can you please email a copy of the
actual paperwork, letter, form or any other information social
workers use to carry out and understand these new social worker
instructions. Please also provide copies of any press releases you
have produced on this subject and details of who developed or was
commissioned to produce and introduce these instructions and
information on any research done to inform this new practice.
| Hi Charlotte, please see attached a copy of the procedure for staff which also contains a the letter for parents. The procedure was developed as a practical and workable means of being clear and direct with parents of children who are subject to Child Protection plan. This is following a series of enquiries, most recently into the death of Baby P. The content of attached is deeply informed by the messages from many child death enquiries, which have been the research basis for the procedure.
The attached was sent to the Guardian, but Harrow Council did not actually issue a press release. However, we did issue a quote from Cllr Christine Bednell which I include below
Cllr Christine Bednell, Harrow Council's portfolio holder for Children's Services, said: "This letter is not about giving Councils nanny-state powers, it is about ensuring we have a clear picture of what is going in the homes of our most vulnerable children."As recent high profile cases have shown, social workers often work in an area where the truth is sometimes murky or deliberately concealed by those supposedly looking after children. This letter is a clear statement of what we expect from parents and what parents can expect from us."
I hope this information is of help to you, regards, Peter | 4 |
| 2739 | Peter Singh | Social care adults | | Reidential and Nursing providers | 05-10-2009 | Supplied | 05-10-2009 | I am doing a piece of work on Host Authority rates given for 2009/10.
Please can you let me know what percentage increase that Harrow Council
gave Residential & Nursing providers for 2009/10.
| Hi Rebecca, in response to your FOI enquiry I can confirm that for 2009/10, Harrow gave an average uplift of 1.8% to residential and nursing providers. I hope this information is of use to you, regards, Peter | 4 |
| 2738 | Peter Singh | Social care children | | Care orders | 27-10-2009 | Supplied | 27-10-2009 | 1) how many children were taken into local authority care on
interim care orders and emergency protection orders under the
catagory of emotional harm during the above period ? i do not wish
you to include any children for any other catagories of harm/abuse.
2)Out of these children who were taken into care for emotional harm
how many of them were specifically for domestic violence between
their parents? again i do not wish you to include children who had
violence directed at them as that would fall into a different
catagory being physical abuse.
3)Out of these children who were put into care for domestic
violence how many were returned to family or extended family ?
4)Out of these how many children were put on full care orders?
5)of the children put on full care orders how many were adopted
during these periods.
| See paper file - too large to store | 4 |
| 2737 | Peter Singh | Social care adults | | Social Workers | 27-10-2009 | Supplied | 27-10-2009 | This is a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act.
This email is dated 3 October 2009.
Please release the number of social workers the council has recruited from
overseas in each of the last four financial years.
For each foreign social worker recruit, please state the person's age,
nationality, annual salary and specific qualification (eg. 2006 - one
26-year-old Canadian with a bachelor of science in psychology on
£26,000...or something to that effect!)
Please note, I am not trying to identify the social workers involved. I am
merely trying to establish how councils are attempting to overcome the
national shortage of social workers.
For each foreign social worker recruit, please state the person's age,
nationality, annual salary and specific qualification (eg. 2006 - one
26-year-old Canadian with a bachelor of science in psychology on
£26,000...or something to that effect!)
Please note, I am not trying to identify the social workers involved. I am
merely trying to establish how councils are | Hi Tom, I can report that Childrens Services has not undertaken any recuitment campaigns overseas. Unfortunetely we are not able to provide you with a more specific breakdown in terms of the information you have requested, database system does not record all nationalities of social workers qualified or non qualified; it does not record what type of qualifications each social worker would have again qualified or non qualified and does not hold records going back 4 years. Please accept my apologies for being unable to provide you with a more infromation, but I still hope this information is of help, regards, Peter
Hi Tom, I can report that Childrens Services has not undertaken any recuitment campaigns overseas. Unfortunetely we are not able to provide you with a more specific breakdown in terms of the information you have requested, our database system does not record all nationalities of social workers qualified or non qualified; it does not record what type of qualifications each social worker would have again qualified or non qualified or hold records going back 4 years. Please accept my apologies for being unable to provide you with a more infromation, regards, Peter | 4 |
| 2736 | Peter Singh | Social care children | | Foster Care | 27-10-2009 | Supplied | 27-10-2009 | i) How many foster care applications have been received for which initial interviews with the applicant have not yet been carried out?
ii) How many registered foster carers/parents are there in the council's area?
iii) How many children awaiting a foster carer? | i) How many foster care applications have been received for which initial interviews with the applicant have not yet been carried out?
All fostering applications have received initial visits
ii) How many registered foster carers/parents are there in the council's area?
We have 70 registered foster carers
iii) How many children awaiting a foster carer?
All children needing fostering placements are placed. If we have no inhouse resource we place with agency foster carers
| 4 |
| 2735 | Peter Singh | Social care children | | Deah Children Education Services | 26-10-2009 | Supplied | 26-10-2009 | See papaer file for full list of questions and tables | Please see paper file | 4 |
| 2734 | Taiq Chowdry Taiq Chowdry | Environment | Environmental Health | Noise Abatement Orders | 05-11-2009 | Supplied | 05-11-2009 | Dear Sir / Madam is not recorded,
Under the Freedom of Information Act, please could you provide me with a list of the Noise Abatement Orders your council has issued in the last three calendar years (Oct 2006 - Oct 2009) which relate to noise from Public address (PA) or "Tannoy" systems.
Where possible, please provide the address and / or name of the firm which has been issued with the order and details of the complaints / council investigations which led to the order being imposed.
Yours sincerely,
Jasper Copping
Sunday Telegraph
020 7931 3565 or 077958 14411
| The information requested, relating to Tannoy and/or PA systems is not spacifically recorded and would entai significant resource to obtain. Applicant to be advised accordingly | 4 |
| 2734 | Taiq Chowdry Taiq Chowdry | Environment | Environmental Health | Noise Abatement Orders | 09-11-2009 | Supplied | 09-11-2009 | Dear Sir / Madam is not recorded,
Under the Freedom of Information Act, please could you provide me with a list of the Noise Abatement Orders your council has issued in the last three calendar years (Oct 2006 - Oct 2009) which relate to noise from Public address (PA) or "Tannoy" systems.
Where possible, please provide the address and / or name of the firm which has been issued with the order and details of the complaints / council investigations which led to the order being imposed.
Yours sincerely,
Jasper Copping
Sunday Telegraph
020 7931 3565 or 077958 14411
| Dear Jasper Copping,
Following you Foi request, copied below (our ref No is 2734) for convenience.
I provide the following reply:
The information requested, relating to Tannoy and/or PA systems is not specifically recorded and would entail significant resource to obtain. It would involve a systematic review of all noise complaints, (of which there are significant numbers for each year) to identify if either Tannoy`s and/or PA systems were involved .
Regards
Taiq Chowdry
Original request;
Dear Sir / Madam is not recorded,
Under the Freedom of Information Act, please could you provide me with a list of the Noise Abatement Orders your council has issued in the last three calendar years (Oct 2006 - Oct 2009) which relate to noise from Public address (PA) or "Tannoy" systems.
Where possible, please provide the address and / or name of the firm which has been issued with the order and details of the complaints / council investigations which led to the order being imposed.
Yours sincerely,
Jasper Copping
Sunday Telegraph
020 7931 3565 or 077958 14411 | 4 |
| 2732 | Peter Singh | Social care adults | | Miss Bijal Vadher | 20-10-2009 | Supplied | 20-10-2009 | Harrow council Physical Sensory Disability Care Mangement Services Re: Miss Bijal Vadher
All communication regarding above subject (Miss Bijal Vadher) from 1st January 2008 to 2nd October 2009. | This is a DP request - forwarded on to relevant social work team and to Katherine Hamilton for action | 4 |
| 2731 | Taiq Chowdry Taiq Chowdry | Environment | Environmental Health | pollution/waste oil | 30-09-2009 | Supplied | 30-09-2009 | >>> <[email address]> 24/09/2009 16:10 >>>
The FOI+ system has automatically sent you this email. Please do not respond to this email.
You have been sent this email to inform you that an action has occurred on the following request.
Ref: 2714
Title: Illegal dumping waste oils
Notes: >>> <[email address]> 23-Sep-09 16:42 >>>
(1) How many instances of illegal dumping, or any other disposal to land or water, of waste oils (whether contained within containers or otherwise) are you aware of having taken place within your local authority area in (1) 2007, (ii) 2008 and (iii) 2009? Please specify the number of instances, and volumes involved, if known.
(2) On how many occasions have you taken action, or requested that another body or company take action, to clean-up and/or properly dispose of any such illegally dumped or disposed of waste oils in (i) 2007, (ii) 2008 and (iii) 2009? Please specify the number of instances, and volumes involved, if known.
(3) How many small waste oil burners did you authorise for use in (i) 2007, (ii) 2008 and (iii) 2009?
Please note that in the above questions, "waste oils" means any or all of mineral-based lubrication or industrial oils, and waste fuel oils and solvents.
We would be grateful if you would "Reply to all".
Many thanks
--
Kathleen Farrell
| Dear Kathleen Farrell,
Many thanks for your enquiry. The ref number 2714. I have pasted your enquiry below together with the answer and the officer providing the information in italics.
Regards
Taiq Chowdry
Service Manager
Community & Environment Service
Harrow Council
[email address]
(T) 020 8736 6236
(F) 0845 280 1845
(M) 07817 233 029
(1) How many instances of illegal dumping, or any other disposal to land or water, of waste oils (whether contained within containers or otherwise) are you aware of having taken place within your local authority area in (1) 2007, (ii) 2008 and (iii) 2009? Please specify the number of instances, and volumes involved, if known.
Answer provided by David Corby: 0
(2) On how many occasions have you taken action, or requested that another body or company take action, to clean-up and/or properly dispose of any such illegally dumped or disposed of waste oils in (i) 2007, (ii) 2008 and (iii) 2009? Please specify the number of instances, and volumes involved, if known.
Answer provided by David Corby: 0
(3) How many small waste oil burners did you authorise for use in (i) 2007, (ii) 2008 and (iii) 2009?
Answer provided by Taiq Chowdry: in each of the years, 2007,2008,2009 we had responsibility issuing authorisations for 6 waste oil burners, each with a thermal rated input <4MW each year.
lease note that in the above questions, "waste oils" means any or all of mineral-based lubrication or industrial oils, and waste fuel oils and solvents.
We would be grateful if you would "Reply to all".
Many thanks
--
Kathleen Farrell
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| 2731 | Taiq Chowdry Taiq Chowdry | Environment | Environmental Health | pollution/waste oil | 05-11-2009 | Supplied | 05-11-2009 | >>> <[email address]> 24/09/2009 16:10 >>>
The FOI+ system has automatically sent you this email. Please do not respond to this email.
You have been sent this email to inform you that an action has occurred on the following request.
Ref: 2714
Title: Illegal dumping waste oils
Notes: >>> <[email address]> 23-Sep-09 16:42 >>>
(1) How many instances of illegal dumping, or any other disposal to land or water, of waste oils (whether contained within containers or otherwise) are you aware of having taken place within your local authority area in (1) 2007, (ii) 2008 and (iii) 2009? Please specify the number of instances, and volumes involved, if known.
(2) On how many occasions have you taken action, or requested that another body or company take action, to clean-up and/or properly dispose of any such illegally dumped or disposed of waste oils in (i) 2007, (ii) 2008 and (iii) 2009? Please specify the number of instances, and volumes involved, if known.
(3) How many small waste oil burners did you authorise for use in (i) 2007, (ii) 2008 and (iii) 2009?
Please note that in the above questions, "waste oils" means any or all of mineral-based lubrication or industrial oils, and waste fuel oils and solvents.
We would be grateful if you would "Reply to all".
Many thanks
--
Kathleen Farrell
| closed. supplied in time | 4 |
| 2730 | Kulwinder Singh-Rai | Housing | | emergency housing | 15-02-2010 | Supplied | 02-10-2009 | I would like to request information on properties rented from private landlords for people on the emergency housing list.
Please can I have the current rental values of the top 10 most expensive properties rented by the council from private landlords for homeless people/families on the emergency housing register.
Please can the data include the number of people housed in each property, the duration of their tenancy and the market value of the property.
Please can you give me the location of the property ? i.e. road name or postcode or area.
Please can the information be sent to me in electronic format - on an email and ideally in XML format.
If there are any queries with this request please contact me on this email address: [email address].
Thank you | pragna dhamji | 4 |
| 2714 | Shirley Jenkins | Environment | | Illegal dumping waste oils | 20-10-2009 | Supplied | 30-09-2009 | >>> <[email address]> 23-Sep-09 16:42 >>>
(1) How many instances of illegal dumping, or any other disposal to land or water, of waste oils (whether contained within containers or otherwise) are you aware of having taken place within your local authority area in (1) 2007, (ii) 2008 and (iii) 2009? Please specify the number of instances, and volumes involved, if known.
(2) On how many occasions have you taken action, or requested that another body or company take action, to clean-up and/or properly dispose of any such illegally dumped or disposed of waste oils in (i) 2007, (ii) 2008 and (iii) 2009? Please specify the number of instances, and volumes involved, if known.
(3) How many small waste oil burners did you authorise for use in (i) 2007, (ii) 2008 and (iii) 2009?
Please note that in the above questions, "waste oils" means any or all of mineral-based lubrication or industrial oils, and waste fuel oils and solvents.
We would be grateful if you would "Reply to all".
Many thanks
--
Kathleen Farrell
| Dear Kathleen Farrell,
Many thanks for your enquiry. I have pasted your enquiry below together with the answer and the officer providing the information in italics.
(1) How many instances of illegal dumping, or any other disposal to land or water, of waste oils (whether contained within containers or otherwise) are you aware of having taken place within your local authority area in (1) 2007, (ii) 2008 and (iii) 2009? Please specify the number of instances, and volumes involved, if known.
Answer provided by David Corby: 0 (The Environment Agency may be able to assist further with regard to watercourses.)
(2) On how many occasions have you taken action, or requested that another body or company take action, to clean-up and/or properly dispose of any such illegally dumped or disposed of waste oils in (i) 2007, (ii) 2008 and (iii) 2009? Please specify the number of instances, and volumes involved, if known.
Answer provided by David Corby: 0
(3) How many small waste oil burners did you authorise for use in (i) 2007, (ii) 2008 and (iii) 2009?
Answer provided by Taiq Chowdry: in each of the years, 2007,2008,2009 we had responsibility issuing authorisations for 6 waste oil burners, each with a thermal rated input <4MW each year.
Taiq Choudrey
| 4 |
| 2713 | Shirley Jenkins | Transport and Streets | | Sewerage Works Order | 03-11-2009 | Supplied | 03-11-2009 | This is part of a petition into the grass cutting and the affects of the drainage works carried out in the back yards of plots 60 - 90 Hartington Close, Sudbury Hill.
"The ground requires proper levelling and lanscaping, as we were promised when the Sewage Mains Piping System was being relayed in 2008. In this connection, we would request access to the contract documents relating to that work, under the Freedom of Information policy of the Government."
| An appointment has been made for Mr Sentongo to visit the Civic Centre and meet Mick Bradshaw where he can view the drainage file and question the project engineer. Appointment is at 10:00 on Tuesday 10th November. | 4 |
| 2698 | Peter Singh | Social care children | | Care orders | 02-11-2009 | Supplied | 02-11-2009 | I would like to know how many applications the council has made for care orders in secure Accomodation since the beginning of 2008.
This should be broken down by number, how many cases they relate (three of them could be for one individual, for example), the age of the individual and whether the court granted the request. | In response to your request on Secure Accommodation applications I can report that from 2008 there have been 3 applications for 3 different young people who were aged 11, 13 and 14. A court granted the request for all 3 applications. | 4 |
| 2697 | Shirley Jenkins | Leisure | | Spend on Sport Development | 12-10-2009 | Supplied | 09-10-2009 | From: Summer Hurwitz, BBC London
Telephone: 07958 319 251
E-mail address: [email address]
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am writing to make a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act. In order to assist you with this request, I have outlined the query as specifically as possible, but if the request is too wide or too unclear, I would be very grateful if you could contact me.
Information requested:
- Total amount spent on sports development by your council during the financial years 2005/6, 2006/7, 2007/8 and 2008/9 (broken down by year)
- Proposed annual spending on sports development in the financial years 2009/10, 2010/11, 2011/12, 2012/13 (as far as these proposed figures exist).
- Total amount spent on disability sports development by your council during the financial years 2005/6, 2006/7, 2007/8 and 2008/9 (broken down by year)
- Proposed annual spending on disability sports development in the financial years 2009/10, 2010/11, 2011/12, 2012/13 (as far as these proposed figures exist).
Yours faithfully,
Summer Hurwitz
Producer
BBC London
| Q1 - The Council changed its financial management system in 2006/7, details on sports development for 2005/6 and 2006/7 is currently archived and unavailable.
The total spend on sports development in Harrow during 2007/8 and 2008/9 was as follows;
2007/8 = £183,331
2008/9 = £224,118
Q2 - 2009/10 = £193,539
For financial years 2010/11, 2011/12, and 2012/13 the budget figure for spending on sports development has not yet been approved.
Q3 - Unfortunately we are unable to desegregate the amounts spent on disability sports development as our normal sports development programmes and activities are normally integrated where possible, for example participation in the annual London Youth Games events, and the swimming for free programmes are fully accessible and inclusive to all.
Q4 - 2009/10 = £5.6m
2009/10 = £1,500
This capital funding will be spent on renovating two swimming pools within the borough providing new fully inclusive facilities for people with disabilities to participation in sport and leisure activities. In addition grant funding of £1,500 was received to specifically to fund a summer sports and physical activities programme for people with disabilities only.
For financial years 2010/11, 2011/12, and 2012/13 the budget figure for spend on specific disability sports development has not yet been approved.
Clifton Jackson
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| 2696 | Shirley Jenkins | Transport and Streets | | Blue Badge Parking | 29-09-2009 | Supplied | 29-09-2009 | Dear Sir/Madam,
Please send me the following information:
All public available blue badge parking data and information for your boroughs area that is responsible by you for the benefit of disabled blue badge users for and near amenities, car parks.
To include exact location -
Number of parking bays -
Street, house number/ building, area, full postcode, organisation if relevant, coordinates i.e. geo coordinates or X and Y co ordinates, and specific parking restrictions for each bay.
Can you please reply and email these to [email address] please. We have provided a template to make things easy to see how we like the information sent back to me please.
I would like the above information to be provided to me in (electronic, etc)format.
Yours sincerely,
Gary McFarlane
| Dear Mr McFarlane
Thank you for your Freedom of Information Request dated 10 September. Your email requested the following information:
All public available blue badge parking data and information for your boroughs area that is responsible by you for the benefit of disabled blue badge users for and near amenities, car parks.
To include exact location; Number of parking bays; Street, house number/ building, area; full postcode, organisation if relevant, coordinates i.e. geo coordinates or X and Y co ordinates, and specific parking restrictions for each bay.
Our response:
Please find attached details of the parking bays in car parks within the borough, it shows the car park, number of bays, post code and restrictions, we do not have geo coordinates for these addresses. Also attached is a copy of the Traffic Management Order for all on-street disabled persons parking spaces. This gives details of the location, size and operational hours / restrictions for the parking spaces. We do not hold information on post codes or coordinates for any of these spaces.
If you are unhappy with the service you have received in relation to your request and wish to make a complaint or request a review of our decision, you should write to the Head of Property & Infrastructure Services, PO Box 39, Civic Centre, Harrow, HA1 2XA.
If you are not content with the outcome your complaint, you may apply directly to the Information Commissioner (IC) for a decision. Generally, the IC cannot make a decision unless you have exhausted the complaints procedure provided by the council. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at: The Information Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF.
Regards
Shirley Jenkins
Senior Project Officer
Property & Infrastructure
Community & Environment
Tel No. 020 8424 1502
email: [email address]
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| 2695 | Shirley Jenkins | Environment | | 24 Hour Off Licences | 24-09-2009 | Supplied | 24-09-2009 | >>> Oliver Jackson <[email address]> 09/09/2009 19:49 >>>
Dear Sir or Madam,
Please could you provide me with a list of 24 hour off licences in the London Borough of Harrow. I am referring to premises that are licensed to sell alcohol 24 hours a day.
Yours faithfully,
Oliver Jackson
| Dear Mr Jackson,
we have one premises that has a 24 hour licence.
The premises are: Sainsbury Store,12 BARTERS WALK Pinner
Regards
Licensing Team | 4 |
| 2695 | Taiq Chowdry Taiq Chowdry | Environment | Environmental Health | 24 Hour Off Licences | 24-09-2009 | Supplied | 24-09-2009 | >>> Oliver Jackson <[email address]> 09/09/2009 19:49 >>>
Dear Sir or Madam,
Please could you provide me with a list of 24 hour off licences in the London Borough of Harrow. I am referring to premises that are licensed to sell alcohol 24 hours a day.
Yours faithfully,
Oliver Jackson
| We have just ONE premises with 24 hour licence.
Premises: Sainsburys Store, 12 BARTERS WALK Pinner
Regards
P Sivashankar
Service Manager Licensing Officer
Licensing, Private Sector Housing Enforcement and Support Services
Community Safety Services. | P O Box 18, Civic Centre, Harrow. HA1 2UT
+44 (0)208 736 6237 | + 44-845 280 1845 | [email address]
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| 2694 | Shirley Jenkins | Leisure | | Allotment Plots | 05-10-2009 | Supplied | 05-10-2009 | >>> "Connors Picture Desk" <[email address]> 07/09/2009 16:10 >>>
FOI request regarding allotment provision and usage.
To whom it may concern,
Please could you tell me:
1) How many allotment plots you manage as of 1 September 2009.
2) How many allotment plots you managed on 1 September 1999.
3) How many people are on your waiting list for an allotment?
4) How long is the average wait for a plot?
5) How many plots are empty?
Thank you.
Yours faithfully,
Justine Smith
| Hello Justine
Please find below the information requested.
If you need any clarification please do not hesitate to contact myself or Eddie
1. 1,352 plots are managed as of September 2009
2. The current computer system was installed in 2004, there have been no changes to number of managed allotments during this period. Data from 1999 is not available.
3. 240 people on the waiting list
4. Data is not exact however there is an average estimate of 9 months for the site. Note this figure does not include data for people requesting a specific plot as some people are prepared to wait for years for a specific desirable plot which distorts the general waiting time.
5. 64 plots are vacant
Regards
David Corby
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| 2693 | Shirley Jenkins | Transport and Streets | | Envirocrime | 08-10-2009 | Supplied | 08-10-2009 | >>> karen patel <[email address]> 07/09/2009 11:26 >>>
Dear Sir/Madam - Customer Service Department,
FAO: Envirocrime Dept.
I am currently a final year student studying Environmental Management at Sheffield University. I would be greatfull if can provide answers to the below questions:
Is your graffiti services in house?
If in house who is the manages it and their contact details.
If out sourced, name and contact details of the company.
How much graffiti have you removed this year?
How much graffiti did you remove last year?
How much will the graffiti service cost this year?
How much did the graffiti service cost last year, including staffing costs.
A copy of your graffiti policy.
Is your fly posting services in house?
If in house who is the manager and their contact details.
If out sourced, name and contact details of the company.
How much fly posting have you remove this year?
How much fly posting did you remove last year?
How much will the fly posting service cost this year?
How much did the fly posting service cost last year, including staffing costs.
A copy of your fly posting policy.
Who manages the maintenance of your lamp post and their contact details?
How much did the maintenance of your lamp post cost last year?
You manages the maintenance of your street furniture?
How much was spent last year on the maintenance of your street furniture?
Who manages the cleansing of the street litter bins and their contact details?
How much was spent on cleansing the street litter bins last year?
Regards
Karen Patel
| Dear Ms Patel
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request. Please find our response below:
Is your graffiti services in house?
Graffiti service is in house
If in house who is the manages it and their contact details.
Lynda Anousis, Operations Manager, Public Realm Maintenance Tel: 0208 863 5611 x7684 [mobile number]
email: [email address]
If out sourced, name and contact details of the company.
N/A
How much graffiti have you removed this year?
From October 2008 - September 2009 we removed 21,885 m2
How much graffiti did you remove last year?
Do not have figures for last year
How much will the graffiti service cost this year?
The service currently costs approximately £250 k
How much did the graffiti service cost last year, including staffing costs.
Same costs last year as this year - we have found a cheaper graffiti removing chemical which has offset the other annual increases in fuel and staffing
A copy of your graffiti policy.
As part of the service standards we remove graffiti when reported onto MVM within 24 hrs
Is your fly posting services in house?
Flyposting in the borough is chiefly a problem associated with flyers and boards attached to street furniture. These are routinely removed by street cleaning staff, Highways Inspectors and Envirocrime Officers. Statistics are not kept and there is no established policy documentation and no single manager is responsible for this function. Enquiries can be made to the council's contact centre on 020 8863 5611.
Who manages the maintenance of your lamp post and their contact details?
John Bowdery, Senior Lighting Engineer Tel: 020 8416 8793 Fax:: 020 84240 9611 Email: [email address]
How much did the maintenance of your lamp post cost last year?
For all lamp columns in the borough: Column Maintenance £526,280 Illuminated Street Furniture Maintenance £136,915
Planned Maintenance (column/illuminated street furniture lamp replacement, cleaning & testing) £159,721
You manages the maintenance of your street furniture?
The maintenance of street furniture is managed via a partnership between Harrow Council (responsible for inspection and raising repair orders) and Enterprise Mouchel (responsible for executing those orders).
How much was spent last year on the maintenance of your street furniture?
Unfortunately this information is not retrievable from the ordering system.
Who manages the cleansing of the street litter bins and their contact details?
David Corby Public Realm Service Manager Tel: 0208 424 1758 [email address]
How much was spent on cleansing the street litter bins last year?
Unknown - No regular litter bin cleansing is undertaken.
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| 2692 | Claire Wilkinson | Environment | Conservation | Demolition Determinations | 06-10-2009 | Supplied | 06-10-2009 | Hi
Please see below the FOI request submitted by the member of the public.
Could you please deal with this request.
Thanks
Anula
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Details of the contact person
Mr Danny Stevens
'The Environmental Industries Commission Ltd
45 Weymouth St
London
W1G 8ND | Attn: Mr Danny Stevens
'The Environmental Industries Commission Ltd
45 Weymouth St
London
W1G 8ND
As per your FOI request dated 10th September 2009, please find below the answers to your questions.
Please state:
a) The total number of construction and demolition projects granted Planning Consent in the borough since January 2006.
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b) The total number of construction and demolition projects granted Planning Consent in the borough since January 2006 that are defined as "high risk" sites, as defined by the 'London Best Practice Guidance: The Control of Dust and Emissions from Construction and Demolition'?
1
c) The total number of construction and demolition projects Planning Consent in the borough since January 2006 that are defined as "high risk" sites that are required to fit diesel particulate filters to machinery used on site with a power output of over 37kW - in compliance with the 'London Best Practice Guidance: The Control of Dust and Emissions from Construction and Demolition' - as a condition of Planning Consent?
0
d) The total number of planning applications that have been approved since January 2006 without a requirement to comply with the 'London Best Practice Guidance: The Control of Dust and Emissions from Construction and Demolition' ?
6
e) The total number of planning applications for "high risk" sites that have been approved since January 2006 without a requirement to comply with the 'London Best Practice Guidance: The Control of Dust and Emissions from Construction and Demolition'?
1
If you require any further information, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Claire Wilkinson
FOI Co-ordinator Planning
Claire Wilkinson
Business Systems Officer
Harrow Council
Planning Services
0208 736 6096 | 4 |
| 2691 | Peter Singh | Education | | Elective Home Education | 23-09-2009 | Supplied | 23-09-2009 | In the wake of Graham Badmans review of Elective Home Education,
the Government is planning to introduce legislation to register,
monitor and support home educated children.
It is clear that this legislation will have financial and staffing
impacts upon local authorities and yet the Government has made it
equally clear that no extra funding will be made available to local
councils to fulfil their new responsibilities.
In the light of the expected impact of this proposed legislation:
(a) Has it been formally discussed by the committees of elected
councillors responsible for education, childrens social care,
finance or any other relevant department?
(b) Has it been formally discussed by the officers responsible for
education, childrens social care, finance or any other relevant
department?
(c) Have the committees responsible for education, childrens
social care, finance or any other relevant department taken part in
the Government consultation into the proposed legislation, which
ends on 19 October 2009?
(d) Have the unelected local authority officers responsible for
education, childrens social care, finance or any other relevant
department taken part in the Government consultation into the
proposed legislation, which ends on 19 October 2009?
(e) If the councillors or officers have not taken part in the
consultation, are they planning to do so? | (a) Has it been formally discussed by the committees of elected
councillors responsible for education, childrens social care,
finance or any other relevant department?NO
(b) Has it been formally discussed by the officers responsible for
education, childrens social care, finance or any other relevant
department?YES
(c) Have the committees responsible for education, childrens
social care, finance or any other relevant department taken part in
the Government consultation into the proposed legislation, which
ends on 19 October 2009?NO
(d) Have the unelected local authority officers responsible for
education, childrens social care, finance or any other relevant
department taken part in the Government consultation into the
proposed legislation, which ends on 19 October 2009?NO
(e) If the councillors or officers have not taken part in the
consultation, are they planning to do so?YES
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| 2690 | Peter Singh | Social care children | | UASC | 22-10-2009 | Supplied | 22-10-2009 | 1. How many Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children (UASC) are
accommodated in your LA area?
2. What database system(s) does your service use to record UASC?
3. What controls are in place to limit access to that system or
systems?
4. What technical and organizational security measures are in place to
protect data in storage and transit?
5. By what mechanism does the LA make its grant claim to the Home
Office?
6. What procedures are used to decide when UASC information should be
shared with other agencies?
7. With which other agencies does your service regularly share UASC
information?
8. What assessment is made of the legal requirements for obtaining a
child's informed consent?
9. How is consent to information-sharing obtained?
10. Where a child is not believed to be Gillick competent, who makes any
decisions about sharing their information?
11. What procedures are in place to support those whose first language
is not English in making decisions about consent to information-sharing?
12. Does your LA undertake Merton-compliant age assessments? If not,
where are these carried out?
13. Is the full age assessment shared with the UK Borders Agency?
14. During the past 3 years have you at any time had staff from the UK
Borders Agency (or Borders and Immigration Agency) seconded to your
department? If so, for what period of time?
15. Has any member of UKBA staff ever been provided with a staff log-in
to your systems to enable access to UASC case files?
16. Has any member of UKBA staff ever been given other direct access to
UASC case files?
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