Driver Improvement Scheme request

Ted Behr made this Freedom of Information request to Somerset County Council

The request was partially successful.

From: Ted Behr

12 August 2010

This is a question relating to your driver improvement schemes
offered in place of a fixed penalty speeding charge, if you have
such a scheme.

Please could you provide information relating to:
1 confirmation of its existence
2 cost of participating in this course
3 year of inception
4 details of who administers any such scheme
5 details of who delivers the scheme
6 details of how income is distributed, including beneficiaries of
any or all income

For each accounting year since inception, please provide:
1. numbers of people participating in the driver improvement scheme
each year including the most recent available figure;
2. an annual breakdown of income;
3. details of how income is spent or distributed, with annual
breakdown;
4. confirmation of who receives this income, with details of where
this information is publicly accessible;
5. confirmation of where this income appears in the
accounts/budgets;
6. if the council receives all the income, clarification of how the
local police service is compensated for loss of income from fixed
penalty fines;
7. year by year cost of administering and delivering these courses;
8. which department of local administration is responsible for
budgets relating to the driver improvement courses;
9. copies of accounts where driver awareness course revenue and
expenditure is detailed.

Thank you

Ted Behr

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From: Emma Greenhow
Somerset County Council

13 August 2010

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Dear Mr Behr

Your recent FOI request submitted to Somerset County Council (see attached) has been forwarded for my attention.

Safecam operate a safety camera enforcement and driver education service to the Somerset and West of England Road Safety Partnerships. Our speed awareness programme, Speed Choice, is offered as an alternative to the Fixed Penalty for those drivers who are eligible to attend.

I will therefore be dealing with your request in respect of the Speed Choice programme.

Your request has been logged with reference 394/506. Please find attached formal acknowledgement of your request, I shall respond in due course.

Please note that Speed Choice is only run in connection with safety camera speed and redlight offences. Avon and Somerset Constabulary enforce a number of traffic laws that may be dealt with by drivers attending some form of driver education - whether speed awareness or driver improvement. If you wish to find out more about the Constabulary's driver education programmes, please contact them directly. You can submit an FOI request to the Constabulary via their website, please click on this link to be sent directly to the relevant web page: https://www.avonandsomerset.police.uk/in...

<<Request information under the FOI Act_1272264.PDF>> <<FOI Ref 394.506 - Acknowledgement.pdf>>

Emma Greenhow
Freedom of Information Disclosure Officer & Website Manager
Safecam Project Management Office
*Safecam, Somerset County Council, County Hall, Taunton, TA1 4DY
* [email address]
* www.safecam.org.uk

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From: SafeCam
Somerset County Council

8 September 2010

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Dear Mr Behr

Please find attached my response to your FOI request ref 394/506, and associated documentation.

<<FOI Ref 394.506 - Response.pdf>> <<Behr 394.506 Associated Documentation.pdf>> <<FOI Ref 394.506 - Decisions Notice.pdf>> <<Appeals Procedure.pdf>>

Emma Greenhow
Freedom of Information Disclosure Officer & Website Manager
Safecam Project Management Office
*Safecam, Somerset County Council, County Hall, Taunton, TA1 4DY
* [email address]
* www.safecam.org.uk

This communication is intended solely for the person (s) or organisation to whom it is addressed. It may contain privileged
and confidential information and if you are not the intended recipient (s), you must not copy, distribute or take any action
in reliance on it. If you have received this e-mail in error please notify the sender and copy the message to
[email address]

Individuals are advised that by replying to, or sending an e-mail message to Somerset County Council, you accept
that you have no explicit or implicit expectation of privacy.

In line with the Surveillance and Monitoring Policy, any e-mail messages (and attachments) transmitted over the
Council’s network may be subject to scrutiny.

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Stuart left an annotation (16 September 2010)

You are not a commercial organisation, you are an educational body and not subject to tax and utilising Public funds and therefore you are not exempt from the FOI non disclosure section.

I for one amongst others await and demand the full disclosure of the original request.

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