West Midlands NRPF Network information circulated.

Dear Sir or Madam,

As published online,[1] can you please email me an electronic copy
of the following information:

1) A copy of any notes of the meeting of the West Midlands NRPF
Network of Thursday 26th March, which took place at 2 – 4 p.m at
the Regional Partnership Centre, Albert House, Quay Place, Edward
St, Birmingham, B1

2) As mentioned in the West Midlands NRPF Local Authority Group.
Notes for the meeting of 4th. December 2008, please provide a copy
of:

2.1) A copy Pete Olner's (Birmingham), briefing he had drafted for
a cabinet member on the Slough Judgement.

"PO noted he had drafted a cabinet
member briefing on the Slough Judgement."

2.2) A specimen copy of the contracts you use that make landlords
liable for Council Tax

"7. Council Tax
Current position is that most arrangements (all new ones) now state
that
landlord is liable for the council tax payment on property as part
of the
agreement with the Local Authority. This had been more difficult
with family/
children cases in the past, but some LA’s present are seeking to
include this
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within the agreement with Landlords. Part of the problem with
Council Tax
payments does stem from older arrangements that were made with
Landlords."

2.3) A copy of the support rates circulated.

"LA support rates
The previous support rates were circulated,"

3) As mentioned in the West Midlands NRPF Local Authority Group.
Notes for the meeting of 1st October 2008, please provide a copy
of:

3.1) A copy of the draft protocol produced by C Baff

3.2) A copy of the briefing done by 'DN' on the Slough and Leeds
judgements.

None of this information shuould be exempted from disclosure as
your network is made up of many non Public Authority organisations
and therefore is is reasonable to consider that the information has
hence therefore already been circulated within the Public Domain,
in an unedited none redacted manner.

: Your correspondence:

Please ensure that any of your general correspondence,
acknowledgements or holding letters etc are included or
cut-and-pasted into the body of the email messages, using plain
text, rather than as attachments. As this will mean your
correspondence is much easier to access, read and respond to.

: Accessibility:

When providing any information disclosures please provide it in the
original unrestricted format such as:

a. MS Word .doc or Rich Text Text .rtf format or equivalent
(suitable for disclosure of email messages)

b.Spreadsheets in MS Excel .xls format or equivalent

c.Presentations in MS Powerpoint .ppt format or equivalent

or converted to Portable Document Format (PDF), ONLY if none of the
above formats are available

if you only have a paper version (hard copy) available, please
provide a Digital Photo Copier Scanned version in PDF format. If
you do provide disclosures in PDF from a Digital Photo Copier Scan,
please state that you have done so because no other format, such as
a, b or c above, are available.

If you need to redact text elements of any disclosure can you
please ensure that the rest of text based information remains
accessible to a Screen Reader.
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Please ensure any electronic disclosures are absolutely free of any
Document limitations or controls, such as making them Read-only,
Encrypted or Password restricted, as this is likely to render them
less usable on a general basis and more specifically, inaccessible
to Assistive Technology.

Please do not send any information in compilation archive formats,
such as .zip.

Providing correspondence and disclosed information via these means
will help ensure that text based information is accessible for use
with a Screen Reader or a Magnifier for none text based information
and will prevent any further and separate representations under the
Disability Discrimination Act. If you are unable to meet these
reasonably practicable accessibility requests please state why and
provide a copy of any internal information, such as a policy relied
upon that would explain such a decision.

Reference:

[1] The notes of the most recent meetings of the West Midlands
Local Authority NRPF group are available below:
http://www.wmlga.gov.uk/Policy_Areas/Mig...

Yours faithfully,
Cassidy, J