COVID Winter Grant Scheme

Response to this request is long overdue. By law, under all circumstances, Southwark Borough Council should have responded by now (details). You can complain by requesting an internal review.

David Butterfield

1. How did you distribute the COVID Winter Grant to vulnerable families, i.e. cash, food parcels or retail supermarket vouchers?
2. Did you use this grant to distribute financial support to families of children eligible for free school meals?
3. How many children were eligible for Free School Meals and how many children claimed financial support via the grant scheme?
4. Did you use the grant to distribute support to other vulnerable families / individuals and if so, which groups, i.e. homeless etc.?
5. If using supermarket vouchers
(a) which supplier(s) did you use to distribute the vouchers?
(b) how did you choose a supplier?
(c) what were your top 3 mandatory requirements for the service?
(d) did you coordinate the ordering to all beneficiaries/recipients, or was access delegated to schools to administer and order?
(e) did you enter into a direct contract with the supplier or call off via a framework?
(f) when does your contract end?
6. Following Government's extension of the COVID Winter Grant, will you continue to fund Free School Meal vouchers in May half-term and summer holidays?
7. Which role(s) and job functions manage the contract for this service?

accessinfo, Southwark Borough Council

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London Borough of Southwark
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David Butterfield

FAO AccessInfo Team

Dear Sir/Madam,

My FOI request has been submitted via the voluntarily-run website WhatDoTheyKnow with all appropriate due diligence including my full name, David Butterfield, which appears at the top of this enquiry.

I'm sorry you've failed to notice this. Regrettably, your reply is unsigned so at this moment in time, I'm not sure who I'm addressing with my response.

Yours sincerely,

David Butterfield

David Butterfield

AccessInfo Team

Hello,

My FOI request was submitted TWO MONTHS AGO and I'm still waiting for your response.

Whilst I'm sympathetic of undoubted difficulties in the past, perhaps it's worthwhile recording here that 94/101 local authorities replied within their allotted timescale.

Please can you update the status of my request?

Yours faithfully,

David Butterfield
Managing Director

David Butterfield

AccessInfo Team

Hello,

My FOI request was submitted FOUR MONTHS AGO and I'm still waiting for your response.

Whilst I'm sympathetic of undoubted difficulties in the past, perhaps it's worthwhile recording here that 94/101 local authorities replied within their allotted timescale.

Please can you update the status of my request?

Yours faithfully,

David Butterfield
Managing Director

David Butterfield

AccessInfo Team

I submitted my FOI request NINE MONTHS AGO. Why am I still being ignored?

Yours etc

David Butterfield
Managing Director