Breakdown of waiting times for individuals to receive their finalised EHCP
Dear Bedford Borough Council,
Please could we have a breakdown of waiting times for individuals to receive their finalised EHCP plan, with numbers broken down into:
1) Those who receive their finalised plan within 20 weeks
2) Within 21-36 weeks
3) Within 27-52 weeks
4) More than 52 weeks
Yours faithfully,
Mr Litchfield
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Dear Mr Litchfield,
Request pursuant to Freedom of Information Act 2000 – Request No. 21110
Thank you for your recent enquiry for information held by the Council.
Unfortunately we are unable to process your request as we have
insufficient detail from you to identify the information you require.
Can you please confirm what time period you would like this information
for (e.g. this calendar year, last year, etc.)?
When we have received your response, we will contact you again to provide
details of when you might expect to receive the information from us.
Any future correspondence you may have with the Council in relation to
this matter should be emailed to [1][email address]
Yours sincerely,
Daniela Hanson
Customer Feedback Officer
Customer Services & Customer Feedback
Bedford Borough Council, Borough Hall, Cauldwell Street, Bedford, MK42 9AP
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Dear Daniela Hanson,
To make the request more specific, please can the data provided be from 2018-2022. Also instead of "Within 27-52 weeks" as mentioned in the first request, can this please be 37-52 weeks.
Yours sincerely,
Mr George Litchfield
Thank you for your e-mail requesting information under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 / Environmental Information Regulations 2004.
We will proceed with the request which we received today. It is our
intention to have the information delivered to you as soon as possible
otherwise within the statutory 20 working days.
In considering the request, it may be subject to exemptions that the
Council rely on to refuse the information. Some exemptions are absolute
and some only apply where the public interest in maintaining the exemption
outweighs that of disclosing the information.
[1]https://www.bedford.gov.uk/council-and-d...
Please note that should you be requesting information under the
Environmental Information Regulations although we provide free access to a
wide range of information through our website, access to any public
registers which we hold and for inspecting information at our offices, we
are allowed to charge you a reasonable fee for providing certain
information.
If applicable, we will issue you with a fee notice. This will detail the
tasks involved in responding to the request, and associated costs. Further
information is available on the EIR page of Bedford Borough Council’s
website at the following link:
[2]https://www.bedford.gov.uk/council-and-d...
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Dear Mr. Litchfield
Request pursuant to Freedom of Information Act 2000 – Request No. 21110
Thank you for your email clarifying your request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. We will now proceed with the request. It is our intention to have the information delivered to you by 4th January 2024.
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Yours sincerely
Maria Scapini
Customer Feedback Officer
Customer Services & Customer Feedback
Bedford Borough Council, Borough Hall, Cauldwell Street, Bedford, MK42 9AP
Website: www.bedford.gov.uk
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Dear Mr Litchfield,
Request pursuant to Freedom of Information Act 2000 – Request No. 21110
I refer to your recent enquiry for information held by the Council.
Under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act, the authority must
state whether or not the information exists and I confirm that we do hold
the information requested.
Please find the information you requested below.
Please could we have a breakdown of waiting times for individuals to
receive their finalised EHCP plan, with numbers broken down into:
1) Those who receive their finalised plan within 20 weeks
2) Within 21-36 weeks
3) Within 27-52 weeks
4) More than 52 weeks
To make the request more specific, please can the data provided be from
2018-2022. Also instead of "Within 27-52 weeks" as mentioned in the first
request, can this please be 37-52 weeks.
Response:
Within 37-52 More than 52
Year Within 20 weeks Within 21-36 weeks weeks weeks
2018 128 10 1 0
2019 149 2 0 0
2020 158 6 0 0
2021 188 27 2 1
2022 186 49 1 0
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Yours sincerely,
Daniela Hanson
Customer Feedback Officer
Customer Services & Customer Feedback
Bedford Borough Council, Borough Hall, Cauldwell Street, Bedford, MK42 9AP
Website: [2]www.bedford.gov.uk
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