Council Expenditure or Payment to Suppliers for 2018, 2019

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Dear Sunderland City Council,

I'd like to make a request under the Freedom of Information act for all transactions over £500 from entire 2018 to Current. As a minimum, please make sure to include the date, value and recipient of each transaction.

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 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 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 (i.e., at the daily level) for suppliers - preferably in CSV format. I look forward to the information at the earliest.

Thank You,
Yours Faithfully,
Nikhil Prabhu

Solicitor - Freedom of Information, Sunderland City Council

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Re: Your request for information concerning:

 

Council Expenditure or Payment to Suppliers

 

The Council aims to provide available information promptly and in any
event within 20 working days, unless, exceptionally, there is a need to
consider whether the information is exempt from disclosure.

 

I will contact you again soon in connection with your request.

 

Please quote the reference below if you contact the Council regarding this
request.

 

Customer Request Number: FOI_1612

 

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Graham Kelly, Sunderland City Council

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Dear Nikhil Prabhu,

 

Please find attached the response to your recent FOI request.

 

Kind regards

 

Graham Kelly
eProcurement and Market Engagement Manager
Corporate Services
Sunderland City Council

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Dear Graham Kelly,

Thank you for your response.

We have previously analysed your open data files listed under https://www.sunderland.gov.uk/over500 & find that Fostering related payments seem to be missing for entire 2018/19. Whereas data before 2018 shows several 100's Fostering txns./month, the years 2018 to Date show perhaps just a handful (below 10/month, if at all). We request the Council to please re-check their records or take the assistance of the relevant dept. to furnish us with this data.

Yours sincerely,
nikhil prabhu

Graham Kelly, Sunderland City Council

Dear Nikhil Prabhu

Thank you for your email.

All Council spend over £500 has been published on the Council website (subject to certain exclusions which are listed on the page). Sunderland City Council are no longer responsible for raising Foster Care payments.

These payments are now the responsibility of Together for Children (www.togetherforchildren.org.uk). If you are interested in suppliers who provide services to Together for Children you may wish to create a new FOI request which is directed to Together for Children.

Kind regards

Graham

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Dear Graham Kelly,

Thank you for the information.

I shall close out his request shortly based on your update. If I may ask since what date has the Council shifted "Foster Care payments" responsibilities to Together for Children?

Yours sincerely,
nikhil prabhu

Dear Graham Kelly,

PS: FYI The FOI address for TfC is the same as for Sunderland, so perhaps it would get re-directed to you? "freedominformation" <freedom.information @ sunderland.gov.uk>

Yours sincerely,
nikhil prabhu

Graham Kelly, Sunderland City Council

Hi Nikhil

I am sorry I don’t know the exact date the Together for Children company started trading, I think this was around April 2017.

With regards to your other email, although the same FOI email is used I would expect your new request to be directed to the company rather than the Council.

Kind regards

Graham

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Dear Graham Kelly,

Great! Thank you Mr. Kelly, I now look forward to a response to my new request (sent by e-mail earlier today). I will close this request now.

Yours sincerely,
nikhil prabhu