York & District Deaf Society

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Dear City of York Council,

York & District Deaf Society is funded by the City of York Council.

Can you please provide the following information on this funding?

1) The year in which this funding started.

2) The amount the City of York Council has given to York & District Deaf Society in each year it has been funding the Society.

3) The names of Council members and / or officers who have given permission for this funding.

4) The name of the auditor of the Society's accounts, assuming the Council audits the accounts.

5) The terms and conditions of this funding.

6) The names of Council members and / or officers who liaise with the Society to ensure these terms and conditions are complied with.

Yours faithfully,
Paul Saunderson

foi@york.gov.uk, City of York Council

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Wain, Carl, City of York Council

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Carl
 
Carl Wain | Commissioning Manager - Early Intervention and Prevention
t: 01904 554595 | m: 07903868815 | e: [1][email address]
 
City of York Council | Health & Wellbeing | Adult Commissioning &
Contracts
West Offices | Station Rise | York Y01 6GA
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Dear Mr Wain,

Thank you for your reply.

Could I ask for the following information in addition to that already supplied?

1) Copies of all Service Agreements from 2001 onwards.

2) You have withheld part of this information as this is apparently a "trade secret". Can you please specify what "trading" is undertaken between York Deaf Society, a charity, and the City of York Council?

3) Can you please give me the names and roles of the senior managers who made the decision to commission the services in question for by year, for every year from 2001 onwards?

4) Regarding auditing the Society's accounts, can you please let me know what the Council's policy is on this? Presumably the Council will only audit grants above a certain amount. If so, can you please let me know what this amount is?

May I ask an additional question here? Did the contract for these services go out to tendering? If so, may I ask which other organisations made an offer?

Thank you for your help.

Yours sincerely,
Paul Saunderson

Wain, Carl, City of York Council

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Paul

Please find additional information requested attached.

Thank you

Carl

Carl Wain | Commissioning Manager - Early Intervention and Prevention
t: 01904 554595 | m: 07903868815 | e: [email address]

City of York Council | Health & Wellbeing | Adult Commissioning & Contracts
West Offices | Station Rise | York Y01 6GA
www.york.gov.uk | facebook.com/cityofyork |@CityofYork
Find Adult Social Care information, products and services www.connecttosupport.org/york

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Paul Saunderson left an annotation ()

It is interesting to note how York Council continues to evade answering a very simple question: How much taxpayers money are they giving to Robert Hofschröer and his wife.

They claim this is a "trade secret", when no trading is going on.

Lord Maginnis has accused York Social Services in Parliament of colluding with Robert Hofschröer and his family to defraud Robert's mother of her house (see: http://www.epolitix.com/latestnews/artic...)

There are concerns this is not an isolated case (see: http://grandmabarbara.wordpress.com/2-th...) and that Robert Hofschröer and York Social Services are party to industrial scale financial abuse of the elderly.

If so, then one way of laundering Robert's share of the proceeds would be to make payments to York Deaf Society.

If that was the case, then York Social Services would not want anybody to know that this was going on.

If this suspicion is unfounded, all they have to do is publish the accounts on how they are spending public funds so that the public may verify this.