Council Expenditure or Payment to Suppliers from July to December 2020

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Dear East Renfrewshire Council,

I'd like to make a request under the Freedom of Information act for all transactions over £500 from 1st July 2020 to 31st December 2020. As a minimum, please make sure to include the date, value and recipient of each transaction. Please also provide details on the procurement category of each transaction if you have it & any additional descriptors.

If it would help, I am specifically looking for payments to suppliers who provide a service in Health and Social Care. This would include all suppliers falling under the following categories :-

1. Payments to suppliers who provide fostering and adoption services to the Council
2. Payments to suppliers who provide care services to the council. This would include suppliers who provide care under each of the categories below
a. Children's Residential/Nursing Care Providers
b. Adult Residential/Nursing Care Providers
c. Elderly Residential/Nursing Care Providers
d. Domiciliary Care Home Providers
e. Supported Living Care Home Providers
f. Care at Home Providers
g. Providers who carry out Homeless Services
3. Payments to suppliers who provide Special Education Services

In particular I am looking for itemized transactions for suppliers from July to December 2020 - preferably in CSV format. For avoidance of doubt, I am making this request under the Freedom of Information Act. I await your response in ~20 working days.

Thank you,
Yours faithfully,
Nikhil Prabhu

*Customer Services, East Renfrewshire Council

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Dear *Customer Services,

May I request an update now?

Yours sincerely,
Nikhil Prabhu

*Customer Services, East Renfrewshire Council

Thank you for your enquiry.

 

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working days.  If it is a Freedom of Information request you should
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Adams, Lorna, East Renfrewshire Council

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Dear Nikhil Prabhu,

 

Thank you for your freedom of information request regarding East
Renfrewshire Council’s Care Providers. I have attached the information
requested.  

 

East Renfrewshire Council offers the opportunity to apply to the Council
for a review of how we have dealt with your enquiry. If you wish to
proceed to review, please apply in writing within 40 working days to:

Chief Officer Legal & Procurement

Council Headquarters

Rouken Glen Road

Giffnock G46 6UG,

marking your letter “Freedom of Information, request for review”, and
stating the exact nature of the matter you wish to be reviewed.

 

The review will be carried out within 20 working days of receipt. If you
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then appeal to the Scottish Information Commissioner who has extensive
powers to investigate such matters. His address is:

                Scottish Information Commissioner

                Kinburn Castle

                St. Andrews

                Fife KY16 9DS

 

Kind Regards

Lorna Adams

 

Lorna Adams

Accounts Payable / Receivable Manager

0141 577 3146

Corporate and Community Services Department

East Renfrewshire: Your Council, Your Future

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Dear East Renfrewshire Council,

 

 

 

I'd like to make a request under the Freedom of Information act for all
transactions over £500 from 1st July 2020 to 31st December 2020. As a
minimum, please make sure to include the date, value and recipient of each
transaction. Please also provide details on the procurement category of
each transaction if you have it & any additional descriptors.

 

 

 

If it would help, I am specifically looking for payments to suppliers who
provide a service in Health and Social Care. This would include all
suppliers falling under the following categories :-

 

 

 

1. Payments to suppliers who provide fostering and adoption services to
the Council

 

2. Payments to suppliers who provide care services to the council. This
would include suppliers who provide care under each of the categories
below

 

a. Children's Residential/Nursing Care Providers

 

b. Adult Residential/Nursing Care Providers

 

c. Elderly Residential/Nursing Care Providers

 

d. Domiciliary Care Home Providers

 

e. Supported Living Care Home Providers

 

f. Care at Home Providers

 

g. Providers who carry out Homeless Services

 

3. Payments to suppliers who provide Special Education Services

 

 

 

In particular I am looking for itemized transactions for suppliers from
July to December 2020 - preferably in CSV format. For avoidance of doubt,
I am making this request under the Freedom of Information Act. I await
your response in ~20 working days.

 

 

 

Thank you,

 

Yours faithfully,

 

Nikhil Prabhu

 

 

 

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Dear Adams, Lorna,

Thank you for your response, however, may I request you please re-check your records once? As, based on my analyses, the dataset provided seems to be short (I am referencing the previous 6-month data from Jan-Jun 2020)

Total rows & spend for Jan-Jun 2020 = 15,132 & ~£101.8 million
Total rows & spend for Jul-Dec 2020 = 4,055 & ~£21.5 million

Hence, there seems to be a significant variance to the preceding 6-month term data.

Again, for reference :-

I would like to make an FOI request for all payments to suppliers who provided a service in Health and Social Care only, from 1st Jul-31st Dec 2020: This would include all suppliers falling under the categories :-

1. Children's services - Fostering & adoption (including payments made to independent fostering agencies and for in-house fostering), residential care, SEN (special education services)
2. Adult & elderly services - Residential/nursing care, domiciliary & supported living, care at home providers
3. Providers who carry out homeless services

Yours sincerely,
nikhil prabhu

Dear FOI/Adams, Lorna,

May I please request an update/acknowledgement? It has been over a month without any response.

Yours sincerely,
nikhil prabhu

Adams, Lorna, East Renfrewshire Council

I am out of the office until Tuesday 1st June. I will respond on my
return.

 

 

Regards

Lorna Adams

 

 

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Dear East Renfrewshire Council FOI/Adams, Lorna, Good Afternoon,

I have still not heard back from Council. May I please request an update/acknowledgement? It has been over a month without any response.

Thank you,
Yours sincerely,
Nikhil Prabhu

*Customer Services, East Renfrewshire Council

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Help stop the spread of COVID. For more details please see our website
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Kind regards

 

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Thank you for your email. Please find the FOI response issued on 07-04-21.

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Good afternoon

Thank you for your email. Please find the FOI response issued on 07-04-21.

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Claire
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Dear *Customer Services, Good Morning:

Thank you for your response, however, I had already analysed the information provided on 07-04-21 and replied on the same day requesting further clarification from Council (the data provided seems incomplete). I have not received a response to that. I am including it below for your reference. Kindly request you to please acknowledge.

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Dear Adams, Lorna,

Thank you for your response, however, may I request you please re-check your records once? As, based on my analyses, the dataset provided seems to be short (I am referencing the previous 6-month data from Jan-Jun 2020)

Total rows & spend for Jan-Jun 2020 = 15,132 & ~£101.8 million
Total rows & spend for Jul-Dec 2020 = 4,055 & ~£21.5 million

Hence, there seems to be a significant variance to the preceding 6-month term data.

Again, for reference :-

I would like to make an FOI request for all payments to suppliers who provided a service in Health and Social Care only, from 1st Jul-31st Dec 2020: This would include all suppliers falling under the categories :-

1. Children's services - Fostering & adoption (including payments made to independent fostering agencies and for in-house fostering), residential care, SEN (special education services)
2. Adult & elderly services - Residential/nursing care, domiciliary & supported living, care at home providers
3. Providers who carry out homeless services

Yours sincerely,
Nikhil Prabhu

*Customer Services, East Renfrewshire Council

Thank you for your enquiry.

 

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forward it to the appropriate Officer in East Renfrewshire Council within
the next 5 working days.

 

If your enquiry is a complaint you should receive a response within 5
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The council processes your personal data on the legal basis of carrying
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can find out how we use your information in our privacy statement on our
website. [2]http://www.eastrenfrewshire.gov.uk/datap...

 

Help stop the spread of COVID. For more details please see our website
[3]www.covid.eastrenfrewshire.gov.uk/article/3708/Covid-19-testing-centres

 

Kind regards

 

Customer Services

 

 

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Dear *Customer Services,

May I please check back for an update and can this now please be expedited? We are looking for your full cooperation in this matter.

Thank you,
Yours sincerely,
Nikhil Prabhu

*Customer Services, East Renfrewshire Council

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the next 10 working days.

 

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Customer Services

 

 

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Adams, Lorna, East Renfrewshire Council

Good Afternoon Nikhil

The previous dataset was a global response covering all expenditure and reflects in the values detailed below, the request below was only looking a specifically Heath and social Care per your FOI request.

I hope this resolved the difference is values.

Kind Regards

Lorna Adams
Accounts Payable / Receivable Manager
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Dear Adams, Lorna,

Thank you, that seems to be the explanation. I shall now close this as successful.

Yours sincerely,
Nikhil Prabhu