Council Expenditure or Payment to Suppliers from January 2019 to August 2019

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Dear Warwickshire County Council,

I am specifically looking for payments to suppliers who provide a service in Health and Social Care from 1st January 2019 - 31st August 2019 . This would include all suppliers falling under the categories :-

1. Payments to suppliers who provide fostering and adoption services to the Council (including payments made to Independent Fostering Agencies and for in-house fostering)
2. Payments to suppliers who provide care services to the council. This would include suppliers who provide care under each of 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 January 2019 to August 2019 - preferably in CSV format.

I look forward to the information at the earliest.

Yours Faithfully,
Nikhil Prabhu

Dear Warwickshire County Council,

I do sincerely apologize, but the time-period I'm looking for is actually from April 2019 and NOT from January 2019 (so from 1st April 2019 NOT from 1st January 2019).

Again, do sincerely apologize for any inconvenience caused.

Yours faithfully,
nikhil prabhu

Warwickshire County Council

 
Information request
Our reference: 4894136

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Dear Mr Prabhu
 
Freedom of Information Act 2000
 
Thank you for your request for information that was received on 13
September 2019.
 
We are dealing with your request under the Freedom of Information Act
2000 and we aim to send a response by 11 October 2019.
 
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The Freedom of Information Act 2000 may restrict the release of some or
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to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office.
 
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requested for any other reason together with the reason(s) why and details
of how you may appeal (if appropriate).
 

 Kind regards

Charlotte Mackin
Business Support Team Leader

Performance Business Unit, Resources Group
Warwickshire County Council,
Shire Hall, Warwick, CV34 4RL

 

 
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Warwickshire County Council

 
Information request
Our reference: 4894136

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Dear ‎Mr Prabhu‏
 
Freedom of Information Act 2000
Your request:
I am specifically looking for payments to suppliers who provide a service
in Health and Social Care from 1st April 2019 - 31st August 2019 . This
would include all suppliers falling under the categories :-

1. Payments to suppliers who provide fostering and adoption services to
the Council (including payments made to Independent Fostering Agencies and
for in-house fostering)

2. Payments to suppliers who provide care services to the council. This
would include suppliers who provide care under each of 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
April 2019 to August 2019 - preferably in CSV format.
 
This information is not held or "coded" in a way to easily identify your
requirements. There would be a need to look through each individual
transaction to ensure nothing is specified which could break GDPR laws or
where individual vulnerable people are identified.
 
Finding, retrieving and preparing information takes employees' time
consequently we are allowed to consider costs. If based upon an hourly
rate of £25 the cost exceeds the 'appropriate limit' then the public
authority can refuse to fulfill the request. For Local Authorities the
'appropriate limit' is set at £450 (which equates to 18 hours). If only 10
seconds were taken to check 56545 payments it would take 157 hours.
 
Thus we are refusing to supply the information. In not supplying the
information the Council is relying upon exemption ' Section 12(1) of the
Freedom of Information Act 2000 which provides an exemption in so far as
the Council is not obliged to comply with a request for information if the
Council estimates that the cost of complying would exceed the appropriate
limit.
 
"Open Source Data " is published on our website
[1]https://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/.The reports are in CSV format.
 
The link to the August 2019 is, for example 
 
[2]https://raw.githubusercontent.com/warwic...
 
Other months are in the same area of the website.
 
If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your request, you have the
right to ask for an internal review. Internal review requests should be
submitted within 40 days of the date of receipt of the response to your
original letter and should be addressed to:
 
Information Management
Shire Hall
Warwick
CV34 4RL
[Warwickshire County Council request email] 
 
If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review, you have
the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a
decision. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at:
The Information Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane,
Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF.
Phone: 0303 123 1113
Website: [3]www.ico.org.uk
 
Please contact me if you have any queries or concerns.
 

 Kind regards

Charlotte Mackin
Business Support Team Leader

Performance Business Unit, Resources Group
Warwickshire County Council,
Shire Hall, Warwick, CV34 4RL

 

 
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