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Dear Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council,

Please provide the cost for each placement made to a private or voluntary provider's children's home in the year beginning 1st April 2018, the actual price per week paid for the placement to the provider by your authority

Please note

If the price per week changed during the year please provide the weekly price that applied to most weeks of the year for the placement, or the average weekly price if amounts charged varied across the period.

It is the weekly price and not the total cost that is requested.

The name of the child and the name of the provider are NOT required.

If the provider has charged any element of VAT please exclude the VAT from the weekly price provided.

Please do not include short breaks

For ease of analysis it would be helpful if it were supplied in Excel spreadsheet format but this is not essential.

If your authority operates its own children's homes please provide the actual weekly cost of a place in your own
home for the same year (2017/18).

Please confirm the number of children you currently have placed in residential childrens home who are subject to s20, full care orders,interim care orders.

Yours faithfully,

Caroline Jackson

Sandwell MBC, Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council

Ms Caroline Jackson
 
 
Your request for information has been passed to an investigating officer.
 
Your reference is FS-Case-90167078
 
 
Thank you
 
Sandwell MBC
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Dear Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council's handling of my FOI request 'Residential Childrens Homes.'.

My request for this information was due to be received by the 26th October. I have not received the information. Can you please confirm when I will be receiving this information and the reason for the delay

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/r...

Yours faithfully,

Caroline

Sandwell MBC, Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council

Ms Caroline Jackson
 
 
Your request for information has been passed to an investigating officer.
 
Your reference is FS-Case-93561110
 
 
Thank you
 
Sandwell MBC
For your information residents can now use their MySandwell account to log
many Sandwell Council requests online, including reporting missed
collections; fly tipping and pot holes. Residents can also check their
council tax balance on MyAccounts and find ‘MyNearest’ on their
personalised homepage. For information please go
to [1]www.sandwell.gov.uk/mysandwell.

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Amanda Carby, Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council

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Thank you for your FOI request to Sandwell MBC.

Please find the response attached.

 

From: Caroline [mailto:[FOI #522654 email]]

Sent: 29 September 2018 20:10

To: Info Management <[email address]>

Subject: Freedom of Information request - Residential Childrens Homes.

 

Dear Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council,

 

Please provide the cost for each placement made to a private or voluntary
provider's children's home in the year beginning 1st April 2018, the
actual price per week paid for the placement to the provider by your
authority

 

Please note

 

If the price per week changed during the year please provide the weekly
price that applied to most weeks of the year for the placement, or the
average weekly price if amounts charged varied across the period.

 

It is the weekly price and not the total cost that is requested.

 

The name of the child and the name of the provider are NOT required.

 

If the provider has charged any element of VAT please exclude the VAT from
the weekly price provided.

 

Please do not include short breaks

 

For ease of analysis it would be helpful if it were supplied in Excel
spreadsheet format but this is not essential.

 

If your authority operates its own children's homes please provide the
actual weekly cost of a place in your own home for the same year
(2017/18).

 

Please confirm the number of children you currently have placed in
residential childrens home who are subject to s20, full care
orders,interim care orders.

 

Yours faithfully,

 

Caroline Jackson

 

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Sandwell MBC, Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council

Dear Ms Caroline Jackson,
Information Request - FS-Case-93561110
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request. In response to your
request I can confirm the following:
I am responding to your request for an internal review due to the council
not responding to your original FOI request within the statutory 20
working day deadline. Having looked into your request I can confirm that
you have now received a response from the relevant service area, providing
what information the council holds. As you have now received the
information I have concluded your original internal review. If you wish to
submit a further request for a review based on the response you have
received to your original FOI request, please feel free to do so by
contacting [Sandwell Council request email]
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 two months of the date of receipt of the response to your
request, and should be addressed to:
Information Management Unit
Sandwell Council House
Freeth Street
Oldbury
West Midlands
B69 3DE
Email - [Sandwell Council request email]
If you are not content with the outcome of an internal review, you have
the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a
decision. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at:
Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire SK9 5AF
Please remember to quote the reference number above in any future
communications.
Yours sincerely
Sandwell MBC
For your information residents can now use their MySandwell account to log
many Sandwell Council requests online, including reporting missed
collections; fly tipping and pot holes. Residents can also check their
council tax balance on MyAccounts and find "MyNearest" on their
personalised homepage. For information please go
to [1]www.sandwell.gov.uk/mysandwell.

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