FOIs received and answered – April 2013 FOI 4747 Q What is the total number of people who applied for housing benefits whose nationality is from an EU country (excluding the UK) in the last year for which figures are available? What is the total number of claimants of housing benefits whose nationality is from an EU country (excluding the UK) in the last year for which figures are available? FOI 4747 A I am sorry to advise you that we cannot differentiate different nationalities as our systems do not require us to store this information. FOI 4748 Q 1. In schools how is the Halal meat sourced and procured? 2. What Halal standards are implemented? 3. Which Halal authority is involved in granting certification? 4. Which schools are provided with Halal meat? 5. How is the food prepared? 6. Are there separate utensils and equipment used in preparation of Halal foods as opposed to other [non] Halal foods? FOI 4748 A 1. ISS Facility Services Education operates an Approved Suppliers List and all food items are procured through this method. This includes the provision of all Halal meat products being sourced from authenticated providers. 2. All necessary standards to maintain the authenticity and integrity of the product and Halal claim are taken at every stage. These standards are also outlined, and expected, by all Educational customers. Our authorised suppliers undergo rigorous vetting procedures prior to their approval. In terms of religious observance such as Halal and kosher, we expect our suppliers to maintain the correct and current certification. In terms of preparation we work closely with the local religious representatives to ensure that every respect is paid at all stages. 3. There are a number of authorising authorities, including European Halal Development Agency (EHDA); the Institute of Islamic Jurisprudence and the Muslim Judical Council (MJC) Halal Trust. A typical certification is attached. 4. ISS FS Education provides catering services to over 500 sites across the UK. Within the Slough Borough Council contract we provide Halal school meals to the following: St Mary’s CE Primary School, IQRA Islamic Primary School, Wexham Court Primary School, Godolphin Infant School, Godolphin Junior School, Montem Primary School, Littledown School. 5. All food is prepared under the highest standards of hygiene, and where applicable, within the confines of acceptable religious expectations. Guidance is sought at local level to ensure compliance with all religious observance. 6. Yes, as above. FOI 4749 Q 1. Did SBC check the electrical safety qualifications and technical competence of the Britwell parish chairman before SBC authorised him to perform electrical work inside the meter cabinet of the council house at 74 Pemberton Road? 2. Did SBC check the safety of the electricity wiring at that address after the parish chairman got electrocuted, was found unconscious on the front door mat then rushed to Wexham Park in an blue flashing light ambulance? 3. Did SBC employ the parish chairman to undercut the rates paid to Interserve? 4. Did SBC employ the parish chairman after it did a Google on 'electricians shine pemberton road' or because it was a favour to him because he was a borough councillor living nearby? 5. What was the number of electricity jobs given by SBC to the parish chairman? 6. What was the money total SBC paid to the parish chairman? FOI 4749 A

1. Neither Interserve nor Slough Borough Council have ever authorised the Britwell Parish Chairman to undertake any work on their behalf. 2. Interserve has no record of any electrical work being carried out at this property by either SBC employees or the councils approved electrical contractors. 3. See the answer to Q1 above 4. See the answer to Q1 above 5. See the answer to Q1 above 6. See the answer to Q1 above FOI 4750 Q Please can you confirm the job title of the candidate who achieved a 27% score and was offered the position over better performing candidates, as published in an internal audit report - (agendahttp://www.slough.gov.uk/moderngov/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=582&MId=4994) If the job title can not be revealed, please specify which department they were employed in. Which pay scale does this job fall into? Which senior manager was in charge of recruitment/HR at the time of this appointment? FOI 4750 A The job title cannot be revealed but I can confirm that the staff member works in the customer and community services department and is on pay scale L7 £30,860 - 35,398. The senior manager in charge of recruitment at the time was Kevin Gordon, Assistant Director of Professional Services. FOI 4752 Q Having looked at information on your website about alley gating, can you please send me a copy of your gating procedure or protocol on email as I could not find this on your website. I am interested to know how the council considers which alleyways are gated, and what criteria is required as I am aware that our Slough Councillors are keen to deal with alleyways that are causing residents trouble. FOI 4752 A This FOI request was responded to via two attachments. If you would like a copy of these attachments please email the FOI officer on foi@slough.gov.uk and quote the above FOI reference number. FOI 4753Q I am undertaking research into patterns of council tax and housing rent setting. I would like, preferably in Excel spreadsheet form, the records your authority holds on the charges for all tax bands and average rent charged in as many financial years as you can provide – preferably all of them. I would like you to denote on the spreadsheet the financial years in which council elections were held (NB: excluding by-elections and other anomalies; I am referring only to the years in which scheduled elections took place). Where possible, state the political group in overall control of the council at its annual meeting in each of the years for which figures are provided (or state no overall control, where applicable). To be clear, this would usually confirm the political group responsible for setting rent and tax for the subsequent year. Please do not refuse the request in its entirety on the basis of being unable to answer only this part of it. If your authority does not have responsibility for housing stock, please ignore only this aspect of the request. If your authority was formerly responsible for setting rent, please provide all relevant data up to that point. If your authority does not have responsibility for housing stock, please ignore only this aspect of the request. If your authority was formerly responsible for setting rent, please provide all relevant data up to that point. If for some reason your figures for tax include affiliated authorities (such as police and fire authorities), please make this clear. FOI 4753 A

This FOI request was responded to via two attachments. If you would like a copy of these attachments please email the FOI officer on foi@slough.gov.uk and quote the above FOI reference number. FOI 4754 Q Required Information;- The business names of the parties liable for the following Business Rates assessment between the dates shown. Please omit all personal information, if the ratepayer is an individual please just note ‘individual’. Please provide the following information- a. The name of the ratepayer liable from 1st July 2011 onwards. If there is more than one organisation please list all parties and dates of liability b. Confirm whether the property was classified as vacant or occupied for the same period. The attached Excel spreadsheet details the properties for which I require the above information. FOI 4754 A This FOI request was responded to via an attachment. If you would like a copy of this attachment please email the FOI officer on foi@slough.gov.uk and quote the above FOI reference number. FOI 4755 Q I note that the Upton Park Hotel has a hygiene rating of 1, but that the date of inspection was over a year ago. If major improvement was needed, why has an inspection not been carried out since? Does the hygiene rating extend to The Temple Monkey restaurant, which doesn't seem to have a rating? FOI 4755 A This FOI request was responded to via an attachment. If you would like a copy of this attachment please email the FOI officer on foi@slough.gov.uk and quote the above FOI reference number. FOI 4756 Q a) Confirmation that the local authority has an active register for disabled children in your area b) Provide the number of disabled children on that register FOI 4756 A a) Yes Slough Borough Council does have an active Children’s Disability Register b) As of Tuesday 23rd April 2013 there are currently 99 children on that register FOI 4757a Q I would like a copy of the Council's current, formally adopted Highway Design Guide or other document which sets out Slough BC's requirements for development with highways and parking implications. Alternatively please provide advice as to where I can locate this information on the Council's website, which I have been unable to do. FOI 4757a A There is no formally adopted highway design guide however please find attached Slough Borough Council guidance notes and specification for highway works. For a copy of this attachment please email the FOI officer on foi@slough.gov.uk and quote the above FOI reference number. FOI 4758 Q a) What is the name, and the contact details of the Contractor contracted to supply Local Healthwatch for your area? b) How long is the contract for? c) What is the Healthwatch budget for your local authority for 2013-2014, 2014-2015, 2015-2016?

d) What is the value of your Local Healthwatch contract for 2013-2014, 2014-2015, 2015-2016? e) How much money will your local authority retain from your annual Healthwatch budget for your area to cover your costs and other purposes for the financial years: 2013-2014, 2014-2015, 2015-2016? f) Will VAT be deducted from the payment made to your Local Healthwatch? FOI 4758 A a) Help and Care, The Pokesdown Centre, 896 Christchurch Road, Bournemouth, BH7 6DL b) Two years plus a possible two further one year extensions. c) 2013-14 £140,957, 2014-15 £140, 957 d) 2013-14 £113,164.00, 2014-15 £111,664.00 e) 2013-14 £27,793, 2014-15 £29,293 f) No FOI 4759 Q Please could you supply me with the following information: Of the total hours of home care commissioned by the Council and reported in its annual PSSEX1 return for 2011/12:

The proportion of those hours which were commissioned for each of the following client groups: People aged 65 and over People aged 18 – 64 with a Learning Disability People aged 18 – 64 with Mental Health needs People aged 18 – 64 with a Physical Disability

For each of these client groups, the number of clients receiving home care during the year,

For each of these client groups, the proportion or number of clients receiving an intensive package of home care, defined as more than 10 hours per week and 6 or more visits per week, during the year,

For each of these client groups, the proportion of hours of home care which were provided by the independent sector during the year

A list of the independent sector providers which the Council uses for home care, including: The volume of hours commissioned for each client group from each provider (or the total volume commissioned from each provider if a breakdown by client group is not available) The gross cost of the home care commissioned from each provider

FOI 4759 A The proportion of those hours which were commissioned for each of the following client groups: People aged 65 and over 84% of commissioned home care was provided to people aged 65 and over; People aged 18 – 64 with a Learning Disability 1% of commissioned home care was provided to people aged 18-64 with a learning disability; People aged 18 – 64 with Mental Health needs <1% of commissioned home care was provided to people aged 18-64 with mental health needs; People aged 18 – 64 with a Physical Disability 14% of commissioned home care was provided to people aged 18-64 with a physical disability, including temporary physical frailty. People aged 65 and over 590 people People aged 18 – 64 with a Learning Disability 29 people People aged 18 – 64 with Mental Health needs 11 people People aged 18 – 64 with a Physical Disability 86 people People aged 65 and over 204 people People aged 18 – 64 with a Learning Disability Less than 5 people People aged 18 – 64 with Mental Health needs Less than 5 people People aged 18 – 64 with a Physical Disability 30 people

74.5% all of home care hours provided throughout the year was commissioned from the independent sector. The volume of hours commissioned for each client group from each provider (or the total volume commissioned from each provider if a breakdown by client group is not available) The gross cost of the home care commissioned from each provider. The table beneath lists the independent sector providers commissioned by the council to provide home care in 2011/12, together with the total volume of hours commissioned from each and the cost of this. Independent Providers Summary Contracted

Hours & Costs Hours Cost £

Allied 29,156 445,023

Golden Rose 29,974 554,835

K Care 28,141 492,476

Oxford House 49,721 849,882

Pooks 210 4,153

Sure Care 35,052 578,237

Thames Valley 16,505 276,469

Sorag 1,785 23,041

Total 190,544 3,224,115 FOI 4760 Q I would like to request some information regarding to funerals that the council has held since 1st October 2012. How many funerals (public health funerals/national assistance funerals) have been held by the council since 1st October? Please provide the cost for each funeral held. For each funeral also provide: a) Date of death and date of birth of the deceased b) Date of funeral provided c) Name of the deceased d) Last known address (if known) e) Have the next of kin been traced? f) Have the details of the deceased been referred to the QLTR, Treasury Soclitor, Duchy of Cornwall, Duchy of Lancaster, or any other organisation/governing body? If yes, please state the date referred, and to whom. g) The councils reason for providing this funeral? FOI 4760 A Slough Borough Council’s Neighbourhood Enforcement Team has dealt with three public health burials within the time-frame that you have indicated in your request. Date of funeral: 19/12/2012 Cost of funeral: £1112 total. £462.76 contributed by deceased Estate to be passed onto the Treasury Solicitor, QLTR or the Duchy of Cornwall: No Date of cremation: 25/1/2013 Cost of funeral: £1280 total. £150 contributed by deceased family Estate to be passed onto the Treasury Solicitor, QLTR or the Duchy of Cornwall: No Date of funeral: 22/1/2013 Cost of funeral: £1220 total. Estate to be passed onto the Treasury Solicitor, QLTR or the Duchy of Cornwall: No Next of kin has been contacted in each case.

We have recently been informed of a male who may need a public health burial. His next of kin have not yet been located. Estate to be passed onto the Treasury Solicitor, QLTR or the Duchy of Cornwall - Unknown Much of the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 has been superseded by the Health and Social Care Act. However, Section 46 of Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 remains relatively unchanged and still requires local authorities to make funeral arrangements for those that die or are found dead in their borough. In each of the cases above, next of kin were not in a position to arrange or pay for a funeral and thus the duty falls to the local authority FOI 4761 Q I am a PhD student from Slovakia currently collecting data for my research thesis which looks into staff performance measurement and pay schemes employed by local governments in England compared to Slovakia. If possible, I would like to ask you to answer the attached short questionnaire. FOI 4761 A This FOI request was responded to via an attachment. If you would like a copy of this attachment please email the FOI officer on foi@slough.gov.uk and quote the above FOI reference number. FOI 4762 Q The total estimated cost of responding to Freedom of Information requests in each financial year since the act's introduction [see note] The total number of requests received in each financial year since the act's introduction - including where possible the total requests answered in full, the total answered partially and the total refused The current number of FTE posts for which the primary function is to oversee, respond to or co-ordinate obligations under the Freedom of Information Act FOI 4762 A This is not information that Slough Borough Council record 2005 – 239, 2006 – 295, 2007 – 321, 2008 – 409, 2009 – 656, 2010 – 758, 2011 – 895, 2012 – 959, 2013 to date - 318 One FOI 4763 Q Last year I was informed that a Child Trafficking and Exploitation update was about to be issued. Later I was informed that the Progress Update Report would be issued to, and discussed at, the Education and b Children Services Scrutiny Panel on 20th March 2013. I understand that the Progress Update Report was not issued to the Scrutiny Panel. Could you please let me know why the Progress Update Report was not issued as promised? Also could you please arrange for me to receive a copy of the report? If the report has not been written could you please let me know when it will be issued? FOI 4763 A Further to your recent FOI request I would refer you to the minutes of the Education and Children's Scrutiny Panel meeting on 5 February 2013, where Members decided that the 20 March 2013 meeting of the Panel would only discuss the recent Ofsted inspection of Churchmead School which put the School into Special Measures. The update on progress regarding work around Child Trafficking and Exploitation was, therefore, deferred by the Panel, and is being presented by the Independent Chair of the Slough Local Safeguarding Children Board at the Education and Children's Services Scrutiny Panel meeting on Tuesday 16 April 2013. The agenda for this meeting is has been published and the report can be found on the Slough Borough Council website. FOI 4764 Q At the Education and Children's. Services Scrutiny Panel Meeting on 08/10/2012 members were informed as follows:

"At present the Task and Finish Group is in the process of auditing existing cases and the identification of those that may be at risk of CSE and child trafficking. This audit is due to be completed in November (2012) and reported back to the SLSCB at its meeting in December (2012)." I understand from members that this promise was not kept. Could you please let me know if the audit was completed and a report prepared? Could you also let me know if the report was prepared why was it withheld? Could you please arrange for me to receive a copy of the report? FOI 4764 A At it's meeting on 18 July 2012, the Education and Children's Services Scrutiny Panel received an update on work around the issue of CSE and child trafficking. In concluding this item, the Panel requested that a further update be provided in March/April 2013. This was subsequently programmed into the Panel's work programme. No update was planned, or expected, by the Panel in December 2012. I have been informed by the SLSCB/Children's Partnership Business Manager that the survey was delayed and was sent out with a return date of 27 March 2012. The returns have been collated and the Independent Chair SLSCB, is doing an analysis of them at the moment. FOI 4765 Q The number of new build planning applications that have approved by your council in the last 12 months that meet the following criteria: 1) Application for 150+ dwellings 2) Where SWALES are used as the sole method of drainage on the site FOI 4765 A 1) Nil 2) Nil FOI 4766 Q 1. Please provide your policy and practice guidance on vetting and debarring including provisions concerning certificates of good conduct (CGC). 2. CGCs. What is the legal basis for requesting them? Who applies and pays for them? In relation to some countries individuals can give others a power of attorney. A government-commissioned report suggests that for some countries CGC information may be unreliable. What steps do you take to verify it if the person to whom it relates challenges it? How do you ensure that CGCs obtained from overseas are consistent with the provisions of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and don’t include, for example, convictions for matters that would not be a crime in the UK or would be considered spent under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act? 3. I refer to Article 8 of the Human Rights Act and the recent case of (R(T) v Chief Constable of Greater Manchester and Others [2013] EWCA) concerning the right to privacy. What steps have you taken or do you intend to take and to what effect to amend your policies concerning vetting and debarring and certificates of good conduct in light of this ruling? 4. Your Local Authority is known to employ a significant number of social workers who trained outside of the UK (34: information provided before its demise by the General Social Care Council) and came to you as foreign nationals; others may have taken up British citizenship since then. Where such persons take leave of absence (e.g. maternity leave, extended sick leave)for a period of time what steps are taken to ascertain whether they have left the UK perhaps to return to their home country and what steps are taken to require such persons to provide a police check/certificate of good conduct to cover the period for which they have left the UK? 5. How many prospective volunteers have been required to provide a certificate of good conduct for the last 12 month period for which information is available and in how many such cases did disclosures on the certificate contribute to them not taking up such a role? FOI 4766 A

1. This question was responded to via an attachment. If you would like a copy of this attachment please email the FOI officer on foi@slough.gov.uk and quote the above FOI reference number. 2. SBC do not have a policy of requesting these, however successful applicants from overseas may voluntarily provide a police or other relevant check in addition to the DBS (previously CRB) check carried out by SBC The SBC ROA policy would be applied fairly to all applicants (section 3.5 applies) 3. We understand that the Government have stated that they are appealing against the ruling to the Supreme Court and therefore SBC will assess the final outcome before reviewing the relevant policies. 4. SBC managers are encouraged to maintain regular contact with those off sick and those on maternity leave and we do not request a CGC or another DBS particularly for this reason of absence. 5. N/A FOI 4767 Q 1) Do you currently use pre-paid cards to deliver and handle funding associated with adult social care? 2) If yes, i) How many people are currently receiving their funding with the use of a pre-paid card? ii) Of this number of people, how many are known to have a learning disability? 3) If no, i) Are you currently using prepaid cards in any other council department for a different purpose? i) Do you plan on using pre-paid cards to deliver and handle funding associated with adult social care in the near future? iii) If you are planning on using pre-paid cards to deliver and handle funding associated with adult social care in the near future, have you set any specific goals or timescales? FOI 4767 A 1) No 2) N/A 3) No i) We are currently undertaking a review of adult social and pre-paid cards are being considered as an option within part of the brokerage and finance function. iii) No timescales as yet, however we would probably be looking at using pre-paid cards from April 2014 onwards. FOI 4768 Q Under the Freedom of information act 2000 could you please provide the following information for: Ba Ref: 00403600012987 Churchill House 1, London Road, Slough – SL3 7RL Liability for 05/06, 06/07 &07/08 rate years, highlighting any paths of transition or reliefs that may be present as well as confirming the liable party for the duration of the period. FOI 4768 A This FOI request was responded to via an attachment. If you would like a copy of this attachment please email the FOI officer on foi@slough.gov.uk and quote the above FOI reference number. FOI 4769 Q 1. How many automatic wash/dry toilets your authority provided via Disabled Facility Grants in 2012/13? 2. How many automatic wash/dry toilets your authority provided for your own housing stock in 2012/13? FOI 4769 A There are no wash/dry toilets installed in LA properties but 2 Clos-O-Mats and 3 other makes were installed in private properties for 2012/13

FOI 4770 Can you please fill in the attached table regarding all ICT contracts relating to telecommunication lines? FOI 4770 A

1 All ICT contracts relating to fixed lines

a.

Supplier name Virgin Media and BT

b.

Number of lines Virgin Media – 1940 approx, BT – 280 approx

c.

Total annual spend Approximately £24,000 per month (calls and rental)

d.

Duration of contract 5 years

e.

Contract expiry date Virgin Media – August 2012, BT - the BT contract has been extended past it’s end date to bring it in line with the end of the Virgin Media contract allowing a combined tender for telephony services

f. Tender review date Currently subject to ITT exercise

2 All ICT contracts relating to fixed broadband

a.

Supplier name Cisilion - Tiscali

b.

Number of users 12 lines

c.

Total contract value £3238 in 2012/13

d. Supplier name Cisilion - Tiscali e.

Contract expiry date No fixed term

f.

Tender review date Requirement under review

3 All ICT contracts relating to VOIP/PBX Maintenance

a.

Supplier name Virgin Media

b.

Number of users n/a

c.

Total contract value Included in fixed line telephony managed service

d.

Duration of contract See above

e.

Contract expiry date See above

f.

Tender review date See above

4 All ICT contracts relating to WAN Maintenance

a.

Supplier name Virgin Media

b.

Number of users n/a

c.

Total contract value £20746 per annum

d.

Duration of contract 1 year

e.

Current contract expiry date 28/02/14

f.

Tender review date Annual

5 Contract within the business responsible for this contract

a.

Contact name Alan Spratt

b.

Job title Procurement Specialist

c.

Contact number 01753 875683

d.

Email address Alan.spratt@slough.gov.uk

FOI 4771 Q 1. I understand that Community Care Grants and Crisis Loans for general living expenses (including rent in advance) have been abolished from April 2013 and that “new local provision will be administered by local authorities in England and the devolved administrations in Scotland and Wales.” (www.dwp.gov.uk). Can you tell me how much this new local provision amounts to in 2013/2014 in this local authority? 2. What, if any, proportion of this provision has been allocated to church projects for 2013/2014? (for example, The Guardian has reported that Darlington council plans to invest £58,000 in a church food bank) 3. Please provide any information you have on allocation of the provision to churches including: a) How much has been allocated to each church project b) What the funding is for in each case (eg: food bank) c) Please specify whether each allocation to a church project is a continuation of funding from previous years or a new investment. If it is a continuation please state how much was allocated in the previous year. FOI 4771 A 1. The information that is requested including the policy and the amount of grant provided to SBC by DWP is all on our web site. The Community Care Grants and Crisis Loans are now known as Local Welfare Provision (LWP) http://www.slough.gov.uk/benefits-and-money/local-welfare-provision.aspx 2. We have chosen in our scheme to pay people by vouchers where possible and this includes vouchers to our local food bank. We have not directly allocated any monies to any projects, as far as we are concerned we should be directing the monies to customers in exceptional need in Slough and we will direct them via vouchers to the most appropriate service to obtain the goods that they need. 3. Not applicable FOI 4772 Q Please supply a verbatim copy of the China trip press release issued to local newspapers this week. No trace if it can be found on the council’s website. FOI 4772 A The press release regarding China was put on our website this morning. Please see the link below: http://www.slough.gov.uk/news/newsdetail.aspx?id=9426 FOI 4773 Q Q1a. Does your council have a Working Party exploring Radical Options for responding to the continuing funding reductions? Q1b. If yes, please provide an email address for the person chairing that Working Party

Q2. If your Council is exploring any of the Radical Options listed above, please could you • give a very brief outline description of each initiative and • state how much savings &/or income you hope to achieve through each initiative in 2013/14 • Illustrative Example: 'Anytown Council is selling Legal advice services to 3 councils and also some local companies, £0 savings 2013/14 but new income 2013/14 £100,000 [estimate]. Anytown Council has also set up a Local Authority Trading Company (specialising in Highways Maintenance, Building Control, Pest Control, Building Cleaning) from which the Council estimates it may receive £500,000 in 2013/14 profits.' Q3. If there are there any Council reports available that summarise these sorts of Radical Options, please send a copy (or web link to it). NB: I am not asking for details of routine or 'business as usual' adjustments, such as increases to swimming charges, licence fees, etc. I am enquiring about big and different initiatives that will significantly change the way the council operates. FOI 4773 A Q1a. NO Q1b. N/A Q2. The information that you have requested is not information that is centrally held nor is it recorded in a way that is easily accessible. I have approached a number of officers but have been unable to obtain a comprehensive answer for you other than to signpost you to the report below. http://www.slough.gov.uk/moderngov/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=168&MId=4697 Q3. see above FOI 4774 Q We request a breakdown of credit balances accrued since your earliest records, for the amounts owing to all “incorporated” companies within the authorities billing area, including: The name of each business in respect of which Non-Domestice Rate credit balances remain payable; The value of overpayment in each case which remains unclaimed; The year(s) in which overpayment was made; and The hereditament address FOI 4774 A This FOI request was responded to via an attachment. If you would like a copy of this attachment please email the FOI officer on foi@slough.gov.uk and quote the above FOI reference number. FOI 4775 Q Please send me a list of all properties with a Rateable Value in excess of £2600 currently vacant i.e. where the property is vacant by reference to an empty rate exemption in place or it being noted as empty on the rate account. The information insofar as possible should include the following: Full Postal Address of hereditament Rate Payer Name Billing Address for Rate Payer Rateable Value Rating Description e.g. shop and premises, workshop and premises etc Date when the full empty exemption was first applied for the current vacant period to the rate account FOI 4775 A Your request for information has now been considered and it has been decided that it is not possible to meet your request. I can confirm that the council does hold the information. However it is considered by the council that the public interest in withholding the information outweighs the public interest in disclosing it. Therefore in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000 this letter acts as a Public Interest Refusal Notice.

The exemption applied is S31 (1) of the freedom of information act 2000 - prejudice to the prevention or detection of crime In applying the public interest test the council has considered both reasons for and against disclosure. For disclosure the council considered the argument that releasing this information into the public domain may lead to a reduction in the number of empty properties; however, we do not believe there is sufficient evidence to back this up. The council then considered reasons to withhold this information - In Slough in recent years there have been a large number of cases of people squatting in both residential and commercial properties. With one squatter claiming that they obtained details of the empty property from a website and was paying rent to the agency running the website. The Council is satisfied that on the evidence available that disclosure of empty property lists would be likely to have a significant negative impact on the prevention of crime. We have found that empty properties are often associated with criminal activity from organised local gangs and as you may be aware squatting is now a criminal offence and is often associated with criminal activity. We believe that disclosure of this data could be of use to squatters and would, on a balance of probability, lead to significant harm in the form of criminal activity. We also find that it is likely that organised gangs will use the information for criminal purposes. We certainly view the level of prejudice as real, actual and of substance. Therefore, having taken all the above into consideration it is the view of the council that this exemption applies because to release details to the public of empty buildings could have an adverse effect on the economy of the borough. The council believes this to be true as empty properties are more likely to be targeted for theft and vandalism and the time and money spend to evict trespassers from empty properties or money spent to clear up the after effects of any “rave” held in vacant commercial properties would not be in the public interest. I apologise that your request will not be met but if you have any further information needs in the future then please contact me. FOI 4776 Q 1. How many council allotment sites are there within your Council? How many council allotment plots are there in total in your Council? 2. Can you please send us the cost of an allotment within your Council for the years:2012 and 2013 and what they will be for 2014. Please state clearly if this is for a full or a half plot and what size these are. 3. Can you please send us the cost of using water as charged to individual plot holders within your Council for the years: 2012 and 2013 and what they will be for 2014. 4. Can you please send us the rate of the discount available for renting an allotment plot within your Council for the years: 2012 and 2013 and what they will be for 2014. 5. What has the cost of waste removal been to the Council in relation to allotment sites for 2012 and what are they likely to be for 2013 and 2014? FOI 4776 A This FOI request was responded to via two attachments. If you would like a copy of these attachments please email the FOI officer on foi@slough.gov.uk and quote the above FOI reference number. FOI 4777 Q 1) Adult social care service cuts Can you please send me details of all service cuts, agreed or potential service outsourcings and service reviews planned for adult social services at your council for 2013-2014 and also for 2014-2015 and 2015-2016 if those details are known. Please include: - The name of each service to be cut, outsourced or reviewed - The cost of running that service at the present time - Estimated savings to be achieved by cutting or outsourcing that service - Estimated staff reductions as a result of cutting or outsourcing that service If this information exists already in confirmed council budget documents, please send me those documents. 2) Funding available for personal budgets

Could you please also send me details of the total funding available for personal budgets for people assessed by Adult Services as eligible for support in the Substantial and Critical Fair Access To Care Services bands for these years: 2011-2012 2012-2013 2013-2014 FOI 4777 A The Adult Social Care Budget is expected to deliver savings in the value of £1.1m in the 2013/14 financial year. In addition, the Council’s Medium Term Financial Strategy includes a further £0.750m in 2014/15 and £1m in £2015/16. The Directorate strategy is that, in the first instance the required savings would be delivered by achieving further efficiencies in the way in which the services are being delivered. To this end all services provided by the Directorate are being reviewed. Whilst outsourcing may provide an alternative model of service delivery and would be considered during the option appraisal, at this stage of the process there have been no proposals made to the Council and therefore none agreed on the future service delivery models or the potential impact of such action on costs or the staffing levels. I also include the Personal budgets made available to service users in the last three years as requested;- 2011/12 £11.601m 2012/13 £11.849m 2013/14 £11.440m FOI 4778 Q (a) how does the trio, individually or collectively, intend to judge the success of their trip to China ? (b) how will that success be visible to the residents of Slough ? (c) how will that success be measured ? FOI 4778 A As you may be aware the FOIA only concerns information which is recorded by, and held by, the local authority. I quote from the ICO website: What can I request? The FOIA gives you a “right to know”. You have a legal right to request any recorded information held by a public authority, such as a government department, local council or state school. • You can ask for any information you think a public authority may hold. The right only covers recorded information. • Your request can be in the form of a question, but the authority does not have to answer your question if this would mean creating new information or giving an opinion or judgement that is not already recorded. • You should clearly identify the information you want. • Some information may not be given to you because it is exempt, for example because it would unfairly reveal personal details about somebody else. I have checked and can confirm that the information you have requested is not written information held by the Council. FOI 4779 Q If a local authority wants to dispose of a site they own that has been used by a school, they need to make an application to the Secretary of State for Education. The current relevant legislation is Schedule 1 to the Academies Act 2010, and covers all school sites. Prior to the Academies Act 2010, the provisions were included in Schedule 35A of the 1996 Education Act but only applied to community schools' Please confirm if SBC has made an application to the Secretary of State for Education for building a football pitch on an existing school site and what was the result? FOI 4779 A I can confirm that no application to the Secretary of State has been made for the building of a football pitch on the Arbour Vale Site.

FOI 4780 Q Please can you provide a list of cheque book schools within Slough Borough Council along with their postcodes. Could you also please specify where possible if they are EPA/full cheque book schools. FOI 4780 A The below list are Community, VA, VC and Foundation schools with their own bank accounts.

Name Postcode

Beechwood School SL2 1QE

Foxborough Primary School SL3 8TX

Holy Family Catholic Primary School SL3 3HS

Iqra Slough Islamic Primary School SL2 5FF

Littledown School SL1 3QW

Montem Primary School SL1 2TE

Penn Wood Primary & Nursery School SL2 1PH

Pippins School SL3 OPR

Priory School SL1 6HE

St Bernard's Catholic Grammar School SL3 7AF

St Joseph's Catholic High School SL2 5HW

Western House Primary School SL1 5TJ

The below list are schools within the borough which are Academies or Free Schools and manage their own finances.

Name Postcode

Baylis Court School SL1 3AH

Castleview School SL3 7JL

Cippenham Infant School SL1 5JP

Cippenham Primary School SL1 5RB

Godolphin Infant School SL1 3BQ

Godolphin Junior School SL1 3HS

Herschel Grammar School SL1 3BW

James Elliman Primary School Academy SL2 5BA

Langley Academy SL3 7EF

Langley Hall Primary Academy SL3 7EF

Langley Grammar School SL3 7QS

Lynch Hill Primary School SL2 2AN

Marish Primary School SL3 8NZ

Ryvers Primary School SL3 7TS

Slough and Eton Church of England Business & Enterprise College SL1 2PE

Slough Academy Grammar SL3 7PR

The Westgate School SL1 5AH

Willow Primary School Academy SL2 5FF

FOI 4781 Q I should be grateful if you would provide me with the following information in respect of each domestic boiler installation reported to the council pursuant to the building control regulations 2000 for the period from 1 January 2010 to date: Address where the boiler was installed Make of boiler Number of boiler installed Date of boiler installation FOI 4781 A This FOI request was responded to via an attachment. If you would like a copy of this attachment please email the FOI officer on foi@slough.gov.uk and quote the above FOI reference number. FOI 4782 Q (1) Please identify the personnel who will deliver a speech in China to an audience of allegedly 1,000 people on behalf of the borough of Slough? (2) Please provide a copy of the speech in computer usable format. (3) How many speeches will be made in China? (4) Please supply a copy in Mandarin of all the council's speech or speeches. (5) What is the total cost of inoculations and extra personal preparations for the China visit? (6) What is the total cost of speech writing, printing and translations into Chinese? (7) How much is SEGRO (formerly Slough Estates) paying towards the China visit and the council's preparations? (8) What languages do the personal attending read, write and speak fluently? FOI 4782 A (1) This specific issue has not been documented; therefore this cannot be answered under FOI legislation. However I understand that all 3 participants attended numerous meetings and spoke at sometime during their visit. (2) No written speech exists (3) This has not been documented; the Council does not hold this information. (4) See 4 above (5) This information is not held by Slough Borough Council. (6) Translation of 2 inserts into Chinese to be inserted into 2 existing leaflets £115.48 + VAT Printing of said inserts - £105 (7) The contribution Segro is making to the Council is £2,000, plus providing materials for distribution. (8) This information is not held by Slough Borough Council. FOI 4783 Q I would like to voice my concern over the proposed Arbour Vale School site becoming a football ground. I would like to point out that I have played football to a senior standard, have managed youth teams in this area for ten years, have managed adult footballs and have been Chairman of a football club for the past 3 years. I feel that my credentials prove that I am not anti-football in any way. As you will see from my address, I reside in Stoke Poges village, currently undergoing a proposal for a Sikh Secondary School from the Khalsa Trust. The huge majority of Stoke Poges Village is very much against this proposal for a variety of reasons, most of which are currently being addressed. Stoke Poges is being advised by the Khalsa Trust that Slough Town Council have turned them down on many sites throughout Slough and the surrounding areas and that this is the reason that they are being forced to seek premises in South Bucks now, rather than continuing their search for a site in Slough. I would appreciate your confirmation if this is the case, as I find it exceptionally strange and hard to accept, that Slough Town Council is proposing to build a football ground on a school site that would be perfect for the trust and its own residents. Could you please confirm why, if indeed this is the case, Slough Town Council has turned down the Khalsa Trust on this site.

If the Khalsa Trust has applied for other sites within the Slough area, could you please also advise: a) How many other sites were applied for. b) Where these sites were. c) On what grounds the applications were denied. d) If Slough Town actually offered any additional sites to the Khalsa Trust. FOI 4783 A Various clarification emails went back and forth – for copies of the various responses please email foi@slough.gov.uk quoting the reference above FOI 4784 Q 1. How much the local authority spent on Short Breaks for Disabled Children in each of the financial years 2009/10, 2010/11, 2011/12 and 2012/13. 2. How many children benefitted from Short Breaks for Disabled Children in each of the financial years 2009/10, 2010/11, 2011/12 and 2012/13. 3. How many complaints were received by the local authority regarding Short Breaks for Disabled Children in each of the financial years 2009/10, 2010/11, 2011/12 and 2012/13. 4. How much was spent by the local authority on Special Educational Needs support for schools and other educational institutions, including childcare providers, in each of the financial years 2009/10, 2010/11, 2011/12 and 2012/13. Please note that this should not include provision made specifically as a result of a Statements of Special Educational Needs, unless this cannot be disaggregated. 5. How much was spent in total by the local authority on programmes under the auspices of the Early Intervention Grant in each of the financial years 2009/10, 2010/11, 2011/12 and 2012/13. 6. Whether the local authority spent less on programmes under the auspices of the Early Intervention Grant than they were designated by the Department for Education in the financial years 2011/12 or 2012/13; and where the answer is ‘Yes’, by how much and whether the underspend was planned or unplanned. 7. Whether there are currently sufficient childcare places in settings approved by the local authority to deliver the free nursery entitlement for disadvantaged two year olds to accommodate the number of two year olds who will become entitled to such a place in September 2013. 8. How much the local authority spent on Sure Start programmes, including Children’s Centres, in each of the financial years 2009/10, 2010/11, 2011/12 and 2012/13. 9. How much the local authority has budgeted for Sure Start programmes, including Children’s Centres, in the current financial year. 10. How much funding the local authority has received to date from the Government as part of the Troubled Families programme. FOI 4784 A 1. Short Breaks (Year) Spend 09-10 £196,134 10-11 £360,569 11-12 £457,469 12-13 £381,984 2. Short Breaks (Year) Number of children accessing 09-10 475 10-11 492 11-12 486 12-13 TBC 3. No complaints have been received. 4.

SEN (Year) Spend 09-10 £2,478,350 10-11 £2,723,932 11-12 £3,437,519 12-13 £4,020,431 5. EIG (Year) Spend 09-10 Did not exist 10-11 £7,798,703 11-12 £7,170,975 12-13 £7,612,699 6. In 11-12 the EIG was under spent by approx £900K, the main areas of this were Early Years and Youth Services and none of this under spend was planned. In 12-13, the under spend will be considerably smaller. 7. The LA is on track to deliver the 450 funded early learning places for two year olds required in September 2013. Work currently underway includes expansion of existing early years providers to meet the entitlement. 8. Surestart / Early Years (Year) Spend Note 09-10 Gross – Grant Funded £2,230,931 Excludes short breaks spend

in Q1 10-11 £2,847,225 Excludes short breaks spend

in Q1 11-12 £3,068,160 Excludes short breaks spend

in Q1 12-13 £3,420,499 Excludes short breaks spend

in Q1 9. Early Years Budget (Year) Budget 12-13 £2,507,900 10. Troubled Families Grant (Year) Amount 12-13 £419,600 FOI 4785 Q (1) Following the SLOB story at http://www.sloughobserver.co.uk/news/roundup/articles/2013/04/11/88368 please advise the source of the council's costings expressed as ''She said national research found that interaction on the web cost just 35p - far less than a face-to-face meeting - £7.12 - or a phone call - £3.58. '' (2) Why does the council employ people who, because of their literacy deficiencies, can not compose emails in the English language? (3) On what date did the council first become aware of a backlog of unanswered emails? (4) What is the council's daily procedure for monitoring backlogs of work? (5) Why, when council tax has been privatised to Arvato, the German company in a mess, which saves the council £8 million according to the Leader, is the council apologising for a backlog of work which appears to be the responsibility of the council's chosen contractor? (6)What evidence does the council possess which supports the assertion ''Emails take longer to respond to as they arrive unformatted and you have to take more care in how you craft them.'' Longer than what? FOI 4785 A

(1) The source of this information was a SOCITM report published between 2002 and 2005. The correct average transaction costings are: Face-to-face - £7.40 Telephone - £2.90 Web - 35p (2)My Council have a robust recruitment programme where all candidates are tested on their numerical and verbal reasoning skills and understanding and as such only those that meet our high standards are offered a position within My Council. (3)The Customer Service Centre forecasted increased contact through all channels during the annual billing period and as such adjusted resource where possible to meet the increased demand.. This year brought additional challenges in terms of the changes in benefit and a bus pass renewal project, where 13,000 bus passes required renewal. A noted increase of communication occurred from the 23rd March. (4)My Council Service Managers and Supervisors monitor all contact channels on a daily basis throughout the day, highlighting and addressing concerns as they arise and moving resource around where necessary. (5)The backlog of work has been generated through the annual year end process which always results in increased customer contact. The introduction of Council Tax Support increased contact through all contact channels as mentioned previously. In addition to this the bus pass renewal project generated a huge influx in both telephone calls and visits to My Council. These events were not the responsibility of Arvato. The Customer Service Centre is not part of the Arvato contract. (6)The comparison here was with face to face and telephone contacts where further information can be gathered quickly and understanding from both parties checked through effective communication. FOI 4786 Q 1. I would like the full costs involved for the China visit? (As soon as is possible after the trip.) 2. Cost of Air Tickets cost and which type of ticket purchased? 3. Cost of hotel rooms and which Star Rating of Hotel and room types. 4. Costs of Transport bookings pre booked for the visit? 5. Details of service providers used in conjunction with the trip? FOI 4786 A This FOI request was responded to via an attachment. If you would like a copy of this attachment please email the FOI officer on foi@slough.gov.uk and quote the above FOI reference number. FOI 4787 A 1.i. Please could you tell me how many headteachers have left their posts in authority-run schools for the past five years, including this year. This includes schools who have recently or are planning to convert into an academy/free school. 1.ii. Can you provide the reason for each departure. 2.i. I would also like to know how many teachers have been suspended in past five years, including this year. This includes schools who have recently or are planning to convert into an academy/free school. 2.ii. Along with these figures could you also provide the teacher's position in the school, how long they were suspended for and why they were suspended. 2.iii. I would also like to know the outcome of each suspension. 2.iiii. Could you also provide the details of earnings paid to teachers while they are suspended. If you can not provide this per person, please provide an overall figure of how much suspended teachers have been paid for each year. 3.i. I would also like to know how many investigations the council has conducted in schools within the past five years. ii. Could you tell me why the council has investigated, how long the investigation took and what the outcome was. If you can not provide answers for any part of this FOI, please provide answers to the other questions. FOI 4787 A

1.i - 2.i. Unfortunately we cannot supply this information as Schools use their own HR provider who advice on suspensions, and the LA do not collate this information. See above 2.ii. As above 2.iii. As above 2.iiii. As above 3.i. The Local Authority has not initiated any investigations into schools over the last five years as these are instigated when required by the Governing Body of the school ii. N/A FOI 4788 Q 1. Has your council signed up as a corporate member of the College of Social Work? (If the answer differs for the children and young people/adult care directorates, please make this clear.) 2. If so, please indicate the length of the membership, e.g. six months, one year, etc. 3. How much did corporate membership cost? 4. As of 1 April 2013, how many social workers* employed by the council had joined the College of Social Work through this corporate membership and what proportion is this of the total social worker workforce? Please provide a breakdown by directorate, using the table below as a template:

Number of qualified social workers employed by the council as of 1 April 2013 (headcount)

Number that have joined the College of Social Work through the corporate membership deal as of 1 April 2013

Children and young people Adult social care

5. If your answer to question one was “no”, do you intend to sign up as a corporate member? Please explain why/why not. * This request refers only to “qualified social workers”, i.e. practitioners holding a recognised social work qualification and registered with the Health and Care Professions Council. This could include social workers at advanced practitioner or team manager level. FOI 4788 A 1. Council is actively considering corporate membership in conjunction with other Local Authorities in Berkshire 2. N/A 3. N/A 4. N/A 5. N/A FOI 4789 Q 1. Since February 2013 please provide details of any deceased persons you have dealt with who have no known next of kin (or you cannot find next of kin). 2. Date of Death and Date of Birth. 3. Last known address. 4. The date passed onto TSOL or The Duchy Solicitor (plus any pending). 5. The Value of estate if known (approximately). FOI 4789 A Slough Borough Council’s Neighbourhood Enforcement Team is in the process of dealing with one possible public health burial within the time-frame that you have indicated in your request. He does not appear to have next of kin. Date of Death: 10/01/2013 Estate to be passed onto the Treasury Solicitor, QLTR or the Duchy of Cornwall: Unknown FOI 4790 Q Please can you let me know the council’s budget for the trading standards division for the following years:

2008/09 2009/10 2010/11 2011/12 2012/13 If available, could you also let me know what the budget is for 2013/14 FOI 4790 A 353,242 £351,520 £375,430 353,500 368,090 £371,670 FOI 4791 Q Could you please provide in an electronic spreadsheet format a list of all successful compensation claims made against the education authority on behalf of school pupils in the academic year 2011-12 and from September 1 2012 to January 1 2013? This would be all for incidents that have taken place either on school premises or when the school is deemed to have been responsible. Could you also include as much detail as is held about the incident without identifying parties involved (e.g. test tube smashed in chemistry lesson and injured child's eye), the amount of compensation paid and the age and gender of the child? FOI 4791 A I advise that no successful claims have been within the period you specify FOI 4792 Q How many qualified Social Workers were working on a temporary (Agency) basis at the Council on 8 April 2013 analysed by: 1. Children’s Services 2. Adult Services FOI 4792 A 1) - 16 2) - 7 FOI 4793 Q 1) What was the commencement date of SBC's internal online staff forum for comments and observations? (2) Since its inception how may postings have been removed from that forum? (3) Please supply copies of the removed postings. (4) Please reveal the forum's terms and conditions. (5) What is the name of the forum? (6) Why is criticism of the council and its management not tolerated on the forum? FOI 4793 A 1) October 2008 (2) This is not information held by Slough Borough Council (3) See answer to (2) (4) Terms & Conditions Staff Forums You will have access to forums, which you may post text, images and PDFs. You therefore, agree to use the Staff Forums in accordance with the following Forum rules. About your posts: Contributions (text, images, attachments etc) must be civil and tasteful. No disruptive, offensive or abusive behaviour: contributions must be constructive and polite, not mean-spirited or contributed with the intention of causing trouble. Trolling (purposely posting messages designed solely to alarm other users) will not be tolerated.

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- Staff social events - Help a colleague - Lost and found - Special interest groups (6) This is not an FOI question. FOI 4794 Q (1) How many times a year does the council publish its Slough Citizen newspaper? (2) How many households receive a copy and how many households do not? (3) What is the purpose of the Slough Citizen and who is its Editor? (4) What is the cost of producing one edition of the Slough Citizen? (5) What is the cost of distributing one edition of the Slough Citizen? (6) Please list the titles and publishing frequencies of the council's other newsletters, newspapers, magazines and leaflets including the housing tenants publications. (7) How will the council respond to the concerns expressed today by the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government?. (8) Who performs an independent audit of the council's magazines, newsletters, leaflets etc. to ensure public funds are not being misused to promote the reputations of council staff and Labour Party supporters? (9) Please itemise the sums of money spent in the last 3 years to monitor the public's criticism and comments of the council, its staff and its councillors and the name of the person authorising that expenditure. (10) How many hours each day are spent on monitoring the Slough Observer's web site forum and who authorised that activity? FOI 4794 A (1) 6 (2) 46,500 copies of the Citizen are delivered to residential premises. Copies are also delivered to static sites including St Martins Place, all SBC libraries within the borough, My Council and the communications team. It is also available on line and, on request, by post. (3) To inform the residents of Slough about council work. The Editor is the communications manager. (4) £3,711 (5) £2,670 (6) Streets Ahead - for housing tenants. Six times per year. Grapevine - for staff. 12 times per year. (7) This is not an FOI question. (8) This is not an FOI question. (9) This is not information held by Slough Borough Council. (10) This is not information held by Slough Borough Council; however it is the role of the communication team to monitor local and national newspapers and other media for stories relating to the Town. FOI 4795 Q Could you please provide the following information in relation to the following properties: 1) The Ratepayer (highlighting the occupancy periods) 2) The liability for each year (highlighting any transition) 3) Whether or not the assessments were empty Senate House 62-70, Bath Road, Slough, SL1 3SR BA REF: 00103100062003 2005/06 - 2006/07 - 2007/08 - FOI 4795 A This FOI request was responded to via an attachment. If you would like a copy of this attachment please email the FOI officer on foi@slough.gov.uk and quote the above FOI reference number.

FOI 4796 Q 1a. Has the council made any use of Voice Risk Analysis software - either directly or via Capita - at any point since the start of financial year 2011/12? 1b. Is the council at present considering using VRA software in future, and if so, for what purpose? This is Voice Risk Analysis software - http://www.capita-softwareandmanagedservices.co.uk/software/pages/vra.aspx. The benefits, council tax and/or housing departments would be familiar with any use the council has made of this software. If the answer to question 1a is 'no', there is no need to respond to questions 2-7. If the answer is 'yes', please continue. 2. What purpose(s) has the council used VRA for? (e.g. tackling housing benefit fraud, council tax discount fraud etc) 3. What was/is the timespan of the council's use of VRA software? Is there any plan or intention to use the software again in the future, and if so for what purpose(s)? 4. What is the total value that Capita has been (or, if the contract is ongoing, will ultimately be) paid for VRA? If VRA is part of a wider contract with Capita, please state what the overall contract value is, and its start and end dates. 5. Please detail whether, when, and how councillors were notified of the decision to use VRA. Was it debated or voted on at full council or cabinet/executive? 6. Please supply any evaluation of or performance data regarding the effectiveness of VRA as used by the council. 7. Was the council a participant in the Department of Work and Pensions trial of VRA software in the processing of housing benefit between August 2008 and December 2010? If so, please supply any local performance data/evaluation from that trial FOI 4796 A I can confirm that Voice Risk Technology has never been used by Slough Borough Council and the council currently have no plans to introduce this software in the future. FOI 4797 Q In am in the process of completing a rates audit on behalf of Xenova Ltd and believe that there may be a credit owing to my client in respect of the above-mentioned property. From what I can gather, there should be a refund owed to my client in respect of an early rateable value reduction. Owing to the very old nature of my enquiries (I believe the credit may have arisen in the 1995 list), I do not have an account number to give, but am able to give you the property number of 00103100240222. In light of the above please accept this email as an application under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 for information to be released to me regarding any credits for this property that are owing to my client. FOI 4797 A I have checked the records for 240 Bath Road. Xenova Ltd were liable there for the period 1.4.94 to 8.6.01. When the account was apportioned this created a credit of £18231.77 which was refunded 18.9.01. The balance on this account is £0.00. FOI 4798 Q 1. The number of Penalty Charge Notices (PCN) issued on street from April 2011 – March 2012 2. Of those PCNs issued the number paid 3. Percentage of PCNs collected 4. Number of PCNs cancelled and written off 5. Percentage of PCNs cancelled and written off 6. Number of PCNs unpaid 7. Percentage of PCNs unpaid 8. The income received for PCNs on street issued in April 2011 – March 2012 9. Expenditure on PCN management 10. The surplus produced from on street parking for PCNs issued in 4/11 – 3/12

FOI 4798 A 1. 31410 2. 21151 3. 67% 4. 8278 5. 26% 6. 1981 7. 7% 8. £695,384.00 9. Unable to provide this information 10. No surplus produced for the parking service. FOI 4799 Q Learning Disability Residential Care 1. How many people with a Learning Disability has the local authority placed in Registered Care Homes at 31st December 2012 a) How many are placed into LA run homes b) How many are placed into the Not for Profit sector homes c) How many are placed into private enterprise run care homes 2. What is the average fee for placements in each of these sectors? 3. How many new placements were made from 1st July 2012 to 31st December 2012? a) Of the new placements how many were placed into contracted beds? b) How many spot placements were made? Of the spot placements how many were placed into LA Care Homes, the Not for Profit Sector, and into Private Enterprise providers? 4. Of the new placements made from 1st July 2012 to 31st December 2012 how many had an individual budget? What percentage decrease/increase in residential care placements by the local authority happened between 31st December 2011 and 31st December 2012 Learning Disability Supported Living 1. How many people with a Learning Disability has the local authority placed in a Supported Living Environment at 31st December 2012 a) How many are placed into LA sponsored providers? b) How many are placed into the Not for Profit sector providers? c) How many are placed into private enterprise providers? 2. What is the average fee for placements in each of these sectors? 3. How many new placements were made from 1st July 2012 to 31st December 2012? a) Of the new placements how many were placed into contracted supported services? b) How many spot placements were made? Of the spot placements how many were placed into; the Not for Profit Sector providers, and into Private Enterprise providers? 4. Of the new placements made from 1st July 2012 to 31st December 2012 how many had an individual budget? What percentage decrease/increase in supported living placements by the local authority happened between 31st December 2011 and 31st December 2012 For all learning disability placements 1. Has the local authority carried out a true cost of care exercise? Where can it be accessed? What methodology was used in the exercise e.g. Care Funding Calculator? FOI 4799 A This FOI request was responded to via an attachment. If you would like a copy of this attachment please email the FOI officer on foi@slough.gov.uk and quote the above FOI reference number. FOI 4800 Q •Who provides your IT social services solution for your Adults department? •What is the cost of the associated contract? •Who provides your IT social services solution for your Children’s department? •What is the cost of the associated contract?

•When is this contract due to expire? •What do you use for your resource allocation system? (Is it in-house or some other system?) FOI 4800 A Controcc The annual maintenance, licence & renewal costs for Controcc is £56k ICS / Controcc Approx £15k per year This on a rolling contract We don’t currently have an e-market solution for social care, although we will be likely to develop something in the near future. FOI 4801 Q 1 - The number of teachers employed by the LEA in 2010, 2011 and 2012. 2 - The total number of sick days for 2010, 2011 and 2012. 3 - The top five reasons for sick days / or alternatively a list of general reasons given for taking sick leave. 4 - Any examples of the longest period of sick leave by individuals and the reasons given. (Of course we don't need names of the individuals for this answer) FOI 4801 A This FOI request was answered via one attachment. If you would like a copy of this attachment please email the FOI officer on foi@slough.gov.uk and quote the above FOI reference number. FOI 4802 Q - Please tell me how much compensation money has been paid to traffic wardens as a result of accidents at work in the past five financial years (1 April 2008 - 31 March 2013) - Please also break this down per accident, giving details of a) the accident b) injuries sustained c) compensation paid out d) the year FOI 4802 A Traffic wardens are contractors so we would not have any records in respect of their claims FOI 4803 Q Would you be able to send me an electronic version of the amendments sheet that were produced on the night of 21/2/13 when I attended the Planning Committee of SBC. FOI 4803 A The amendment sheet if available on the council’s website via the following link:http://www.slough.gov.uk/moderngov/ieListDocuments.aspx?Cld=111&Mld=4829 FOI 4804 All these queries are about secondary school applications and offers received by parents on National Offer Day 2013, so apply to state-funded schools. For questions where I would like separate answers for grammar schools and non-grammar schools, I have marked them with * I would like to know how many Slough children applied for secondary school places starting in September 2013. Of those, I would like to know how many applied for places just in the Slough; how many applied for a mixture of places in Slough and in other local authorities, and how many applied only at schools outside Slough. I would like a breakdown of how many places are available at each Slough Secondary School. I would also like to know how many applications each school received from children in the borough, and a breakdown of those applications - how many 1st choice, 2nd choice, 3rd choice, 4th choice, 5th choice and 6th choice. I would like to know how many offers each Slough secondary school made to children from Slough. For all offers from schools in Slough, I would like to know what preference the successful applicant put the school as - 1st choice, 2nd choice, 3rd choice etc - broken down into offers from children in Slough and those applying from outside.

I would also like a breakdown of how many applications each school received from outside Slough, at what preference, and how many offers were made by each school to children from outside the borough. I would also like a list of the schools Slough children were applying to outside the borough - for each school, I would like to know how many children applied, and at what preference. FOI 4804 A This FOI request was responded to via an attachment. If you would like a copy of this attachment please email the FOI officer on foi@slough.gov.uk and quote the above FOI reference number. FOI 4805 Q 1. What is the name & official title of the Director responsible for Information Technology deployments? 2. What is the name & official title of the person responsible for defining your Data, Voice, Video, unified communications and Conferencing requirements? a. Data; b. Voice; c. Video; d. Unified Communications e. Conferencing; f. ICT Security: 3. How many connected users do you have and how many sites are these users distributed over? 4. Please provide details of manufacturer(s) and model (s) of existing PBX equipment used across the network. 5. Do you have any plans to implement / upgrade PBX equipment to support VoIP? 6. How much are you paying for telephony calls between council locations? 7. Who is your primary data network ( LAN / WAN ) vendor? 8. Who is your call center vendor? 9. Please state number of call center seats? 10. Who are your voice service providers? 11. Do you have (or are there plans) to upgrade voice connectivity to use SIP trunks 12. Do you use or plan to implement unified communications between sites? 13. Who is your primary Unified communications vendor? 14. Do you use or have plans to implement Microsoft Lync between locations. 15. What VoIP projects have been identified within the next 12 months? 16. Do you use a consultancy company for ICT advice or training? 17. Is your ICT needs provided under a managed service contract? If so, what company? FOI 4805 A 1. Roger Parkin – Director of Customer & Community 2. Colin Power – Infrastructure Lead 3. Circa 1200 users over 28 sites 4. Unknown – Virgin Media hosted service 5. No immediate plans. 6. We do not pay for calls between council locations 7. Virgin Media 8. Syntellect 9. Currently – 54 lines 10. Virgin Media 11. No firm plans 12. No firm plans 13. N/a 14. No firm plans 15. No firm plans 16. No 17. No FOI 4806 Q

1. How many assaults have been reported against Slough Council’s housing staff* in 2012 and also in the first quarter of 2013? 2. For each of these years, how many of these assaults were verbal? 3. For each of these years, how many of these assaults were physical? 4. Please could you complete the table below? FOI 4806 A Year Number of verbal

assaults? Number of physical assaults?

Total number of assaults?

2012 3 0 3 2013 (January to March)

0 0 0

FOI 4807 Q Please could I have all records, including correspondence and emails, relating to any consumer complaints and investigations into the company Amazon. In each case, please could you let me know the result of the investigation and any action which was taken. FOI 4807 A This FOI request was responded to via several attachments. If you would like a copy of these attachments please email the FOI officer on foi@slough.gov.uk and quote the above FOI reference number. FOI 4808 Q Can I please have details of the budget which funded that individual compromise agreement FOI 4808 A I can confirm that there is no central budget that funds any payments linked to compromise agreements. If a payment is made the budget used will be the salary budget relevant to the officer linked to the compromise agreement. Therefore this amount will not be shown separately in the Council's accounts. The Council does not maintain or collate the information regarding compromise agreements centrally. As such the Council would need to extract this information manually. On average the Council has approximately 350 leavers per year. We would envisage each leaver’s file taking an average 5 minutes to examine and ascertain the information being requested. As such we believe this would take this request above the prescribed time and cost limit of 18 hours (£450). Therefore I am unable to provide you with any more information other than that which is already been supplied to you. FOI 4809 Q 1. I would like to know how many fixed penalty notices the council has issued in each of the past three calendar years. If calendar years are not available, I would like the figures to be collated in financial years. 2. I would also like to know the total revenue from fixed penalty notices in each of the past three years. 3. I would also like to see a broad breakdown in categories of what these fixed penalties were issued for. 4. Finally, I would like to know how many fixed penalty notices have been issued - either partially or entirely - based on evidence from public space CCTV footage in each of the past three years. FOI 4809 A This FOI request was responded to via an attachment. If you would like a copy of this attachment please email the FOI officer on foi@slough.gov.uk and quote the above FOI reference number. FOI 4810 Q

I shall like to have the confirmations Ruth Bagley salary not incremented inside salary band. Rob Anderson and J C R Swindlhursts payments go up every New Year. Salary band has incremental steps each with bigger salary money. I shall like to known how come big jump in salary Ruth Bagley. > 07/08 - £119,663 > 08/09 - £147,645 Who made this big jump and the dates, made by Independents, Conservative or Labour councillors or by government. FOI 4810 A Please find below a link to the pay band for Ms Bagley's salary. Subject to satisfactory performance senior staff will progress annually through their respective salary band until they reach the top where they will then stay. I can confirm that Ms Bagley is at the top of her salary band. http://www.slough.gov.uk/jobs/pay-scales-and-grades.aspx The Joint Negotiating Committee for Chief Executives and Joint Negotiating Committee for Chief Officers determined not to award any pay increases for 2009 onward. This was part of the national pay agreement. Due to the freeze on pay increases imposed by central government no SBC officer has received a pay award since the last award on 1st April 2008. The salary quoted below for Ms Bagley for 07/08 was for a part year as Ms Bagley did not take up her post until part way through 2007. Had she been in post for the whole year her salary for 07/08 would have been £144,114 Slough Borough Council was No Overall Control between 2004 - 2008 Slough Borough Council has been Labour controlled from May 2008 – present FOI 4811 Q 1a) In what ways does the local LSCB policy currently accept online training for target groups detailed in Working Together 2010 and the Intercollegiate Document? 1b) Are there changes to this aspect of LSCB policy from 15/04/2013 and if so, what? 2a) Does the local LSCB policy currently enforce face to face training for any target groups? 2b) Are there changes to this aspect of LSCB policy from 15/04/2013 and if so, what? 3a) Does local LSCB policy currently mandate multi-agency training for certain target groups or roles such as designated lead for safeguarding and deputies? 3b) Are there changes to this aspect of LSCB policy from 15/04/2013 and if so, what? 4a) What elements of training does the local LSCB policy define as multi-agency? 4b) Are there changes to this aspect of LSCB policy from 15/04/2013? 5a) What is the current policy on LSCB `validation’ of both online and offline training materials. (is there a validation system, does this apply to use in all settings, are third party materials validated, do LSCB’s invoice for validation – if so cost of validation?) 5b) Are there changes to this aspect of LSCB policy from 15/04/2013? FOI 4811 A 1a) Slough LSCB has recently invested in 2 e-learning packages one for Basic Safeguarding Children Awareness and Introduction into Private Fostering. E- learning will act as a refresher for staff. 1b) No 2a) No but it recommends that online training to used as refresher training. 2b) Not 3a) Yes Slough LSCB makes it mandatory for all Groups 3 (listed below) upwards to undertake the multi agency training for staff who work predominately with children, young people and families, and who may be asked to contribute to assessments of children in need Universal (Group 1 & 2): Introduction to basic Safeguarding Children and young people: This course is mandatory for all staff that are in regular contact with children and young people, adults who are parents or carers and vulnerable adults. Targeted (Group 3 & 4): Safeguarding Children a Shared Responsibility. Mandatory for all staff who work predominately with children, young people and families, and who may be asked to contribute to assessments of children in need.

Specialist (Group 4 & 5) For those in this group should have a higher level of expertise: a fuller understanding of how to work together to identify and assess concerns and to plan, undertake and review interventions 3b) No 4a) All training commissioned by LSCB is multi agency 4b) No 5a) There is currently no cost for any validation. Training must meet the standards set out in Working together and in line with our quality assurance standards (attached). 5b) No FOI 4814 Q I am enquiring about the FOI log on the Council’s website. It has not been updates since June 2012. Why is this? FOI 4814 A Unfortunately we have not been able to update the FOI log as we had planned due to pressure of work and lack of resources; however, we are hoping to resolve this situation within the next couple of months. FOI 4815 Q Can you please email a list of the number of children attending Slough grammar schools from outside boroughs? FOI 4815 A One attachment was sent with the above reply. If you would like a copy of this attachment please email the FOI officer on foi@slough.gov.uk and quote the above FOI reference number. FOI 4816 Q&A 1. From your answers it is apparent that since 2011 the expenditure of some public money on an unknown, but significant scale, is not being itemised in SBC accounts, is not available to Councillors on a proper basis that would facilitate the scrutiny process, and is not available to Council Taxpayers on request. My new question is- Has this situation been notified to, and considered by, the Internal Audit Committee and, if so, with what results? The Statement of Accounts is produced in accordance with the requirements of the "Code of Practice on Local Authority Accounting in the United Kingdom" (The Code). The Code adopts International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). Also each year for a period of approximately 1 month the council’s accounts are open to scrutiny by the public. We are not aware this is an issue where the Audit Committee has raised any concerns regarding public or councillor scrutiny of the accounts. 2. This question follows on from new question 1 and is - Has this situation been notified to, and considered by the External Auditor and, if so, with what results? Each year the annual accounts are scrutinised and signed off by the auditors before publication. Any areas of concern that the auditors may have are discussed with CMT and other senior officers within the council. We are not aware that compromise agreements have been an area of concern raised by the auditors. 3. Why have compromise agreements and gagging clauses never been the subject of officer report(s) to the SBC Employment Committee or the Cabinet? We are not aware in the past that compromise agreements have been an item that councillors have requested to be reported to committee. FOI 4817 Q Under the Freedom Act of Information please can you provide me with the organisational structure chart for your senior corporate team (1st tier, 2nd tier and 3rd tier) within HR, Finance, Communications and Project / Programme Management. Please include name and job title. FOI 4817 A

This FOI request was responded to via several attachments. If you would like a copy of these attachments please email the FOI officer on foi@slough.gov.uk and quote the above FOI reference number. FOI 4818 Q I would be grateful if you could send me a copy of the paperwork which is sent to families opting to home educate their children i.e. where children are removed from school for elective home education. Please supply the standard introductory letter(s) from the council, plus any booklets or questionnaires. In summary, I am requesting the following: 1) Any and all letters sent to new home educators, including follow up letters in standard form. 2) Any information booklets/handbooks that you send to new home educators. 3) Any questionnaires that you send to new home educators (and follow up questionnaires) Finally, I would also like to know whether this information is hand delivered or posted to home educators. FOI 4818 A This FOI request was responded to via several attachments. If you would like a copy of these attachments please email the FOI officer on foi@slough.gov.uk and quote the above FOI reference number. FOI 4819 Q Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 I write to request the following: The names of all Public Health Funerals/ bona vacantia estates passed or in the process of being referred i.e. pending referral to The Treasury Solicitor (BV) Department or Duchy of Lancaster within the last 6 weeks. This is a request for fresh information. We request the following information only: 1) The full name of the deceased 2) The date of death 3) Last known address 4) Approximate value of estate (if not exempt) FOI 4819 A Please be advised that Slough Borough Council has not dealt with any public burials within the last 6 weeks. FOI 4820 Q&A 1 How many learning disabled adults have become your authority’s responsibility under ordinary residency rules in the last 2 years, by year? What has the total cost been to your authority of that migration? 2011/12 – 3 learning disabled adults £53,080 2012/13 – 2 learning disabled adults £46,500 2 How many learning disabled adults have ceased to be your authority’s responsibility under ordinary residency rules in the last 2 years, by year? What has the total saving been to your authority of that migration? 2011/12 – 1 learning disabled adults £27,100 2012/13 – 3 learning disabled adults £75,000 3 How many other local authorities transferred funding responsibility under the ordinary residence criteria to your authority in the last 2 year? 2011/12 – 3 local authorities 2012/13 – 2 local authorities 4 Of those, how many service users have been assessed as requiring reduced support in comparison to their previous funding authority’s assessment? 2011/12 – None 2012/13 – 1 5 How many people have moved from residential care into supported living or tenanted accommodation within your area? 2011/12 – One 2012/13 – None

6 Of those, how many were previously funded by out of county local authorities? None FOI 4821 Q For our clients and their associated names listed on each letter of authority, for as many years as you can provide: 1. Details of all genuine credits that are held on your business rates system to include: credits written away to suspense/ control accounts 2. Amounts written off 3. Credits which are due to non individuals. Appropriate letters of authority are attached. Please exclude all non genuine credits that may have arisen as a result of internal accounting practices or system changes. Could you please provide the following details :- * Name of ratepayer * Amount (Value) * Date credit arose * Property Address Including Postcode * Billing Address Including Postcode * Account Number * Account status (open/closed/archive) * Property Reference Number * Reason for Credit FOI 4821 A I have checked my records and there are no credits or credit write off's for the clients listed. FOI 4822 Q 1. Expenditure on street lighting for each year (actual for previous/current years; planned for next year). 2. Whether or not your council has reduced/is planning to reduce any street lighting, and if so, whether this was/will be by: - Switching lights off - Dimming the lights (if so by how much [%]) - Other methods (please specify) 3. If your council has reduced/has plans to reduce street lighting by switching off, dimming or any other methods, what hours are they/will they be reduced? FOI 4822 A 1) Expenditure for Streetlighting for 11/12 was £691,471 - for 12/13 was £405,862 - for 13/14 the budget has not yet been finalized. 2 & 3) There will not be any 'switch off of lights. There is no dimming at the moment. We are planning a limited dimming regime for some main roads in the town centre. It will be a two step dimming regime. It will be 20% dim after 8pm and 40% to 50% dim after midnight on weekdays, and timed later on weekends when there will be more activity late at night. This will be monitored and fine tuned as time goes on. FOI 4824 Q 1. The number of foreign national children who have come in to the care of your local authority who have been arrested, since 1st January 2011, for the cultivation or production of cannabis under Section 4(2) and Section 6(2) of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971. a. Please also provide the nationality and age of each foreign national arrested for the above offences during this period 2. The number of foreign national children who have come in to the care of your local authority who have been arrested, since 1st January 2011, under Section 1 of the 1968 Theft Act. a. Please also provide the nationality and age of each foreign national arrested for the above offence during this period

FOI 4824 A 1. Zero 2. Zero FOI 4825 Q I would like to request further information regarding the system that you have in place to monitor the delivery of care services to service users within their own home, utilised by both any in-house service provider and private agencies that are also delivering care on behalf of the Local Authority I understand that traditionally a method of recording service delivery was by means of paper documents that were signed by the service user to confirm service had been delivered. Please can you confirm if this is still the case as of 2013 within this Local Authority or if there is an electronic system that has or will be introduced to replace this paper system? FOI 4825 A 1 We are using CM2000 and have been using since April 2010. The product is Electronic Monitoring CallConfirmLive, which is a fully hosted, web enabled electronic time and attendance monitoring solution providing accurate, real-time logging data via the internet, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. 2 We have been using CM 2000 since April 2010 and no longer use the traditional method of recording. 3 The product is Electronic Monitoring CallConfirmLive. FOI 4826 Q a) The names of the care homes which have claimed VAT - only amounts from Slough Borough Council under the Kingscrest decision. b) The names of the residential care homes which have provided residential care between 1993 and 2002. c) The details of agents of residential care homes and amounts received in relation to fees charged by the council for checking and processing Kingscrest VAT only invoices. FOI 4826 A Organisations which have provided the Council with residential care services since 2007 are attached for your attention. Please note that the Council had implemented a new client information system in 2007, therefore, we are unable to search for organisations provided the Council with such services before this date. Based on our records we are aware that the following companies have made VAT- only claims under Kingscrest decision;- Sedgemoor Oct 2005 Choice Mar 2007 Reach Nov 2010 Courtlands Sept 2011 We regret that the answer to your final question is not available on our systems. A couple of other relevant points to bear in mind are that whilst the Kingscrest decision relates to the residential services provided between 1993-2002, the Slough Borough Council became a unitary in 1998, prior to this date residential services would have been supplied to Berkshire County Council, and that the statutory period for organisations maintaining accounting records is seven years. FOI 4827 Q 1. The results of the consultation so far with the data collected from the consultation 2. Any internal reporting to express the above 3. Confirmation of the approach the council took in relation to the petition against the parking permits (I reported this petition was being carried out on on false information) 4. Results of the councils internal analysis on the available data from the consultation FOI 4827 A 1. We received 142 responses to the consultation in the form of letters, petitions and surveys. 118 of these responses objected to the proposals, and 24 were in support. 2. An internal report has yet to be written outlining these results.

3. Due to the number of consultation responses, Slough Borough Council hosted a public drop in session on 8th May 2013 to allow residents to ask questions and discuss the proposals at hand. To those that attended, the correct information was provided in order for them to make an informed and justified decision on whether to support or object to the scheme. 4. To date, Slough Borough Council have not made a decision on how best to proceed. All residents will be written to with the outcome of the consultation and how the Council will move forward with the proposals. FOI 4828 Q 1. How many electric car charging points are you responsible for (either directly or through a contractor)? 2. How much have you spent on electric car charging in the past three years? Please give a separate total for each financial year (ending 2011, 2012 and 2013) and include installation, operating, maintenance and any other related costs. Please also include the use of any grants, rather than offset them. 3. How many times has each charging point been used in the past 12 months? Please use April 2012 – March 2013 if possible, otherwise the most recent 12 month period available. FOI 4828 A Slough Borough Council is not responsible for any electric car charging points within the borough. Please see link below for further details: http://www.slough.gov.uk/news/newsdetail.aspx?id=9453 SBC has not incurred any costs in relation to electric car charging points and there are no usage figures available as these points are not currently fully operational. FOI 4829 Q Would you please provide me with the Names, Tel, Email and Job Title for the heads of the following departments under the Freedom of Information Act. FOI 4829 A Neil Aves – Assistant Director Housing and Environment – 01753 875527 Joseph Carter – Head of Transport – 01753 875653 Simon Pallett – Head of IT – 01753 875095 We do not have a fleet mgr. All SBC email address are firstname.lastname@slough.gov.uk FOI 4830 Q Is your Authority administering the Local Welfare Assistance scheme for which Local Councils assumed responsibility from April 1st 2013? If so: What computer system is in use to administer the scheme and what is the name of the company providing the system? When was the system fully operational (if not yet when is it due to be live)? Is the system locally hosted or is it provided as a remote hosted service? What is the length of the contract? If you are not administering the scheme: Is it being administered by a third party on your behalf and if so, by whom? When was the system fully operational (if not yet, when is it due to be live)? What is the length of the contract? FOI 4830 A We are using Capita’s Local Welfare Assistance system. The system is expected to be fully operational within the next 2 weeks. It is a remote hosted service. 12 months. FOI 4831 Q

I would like to make a request under the Freedom of Information Act regarding public health funerals which have taken place from September 2012 to the date of your reply. For each funeral provide details which include answers to the following questions: Does the council publish details of public health funerals in newspapers/public notice sections? Such as the obituaries section of a newspaper? Or any other public notice section or a newspaper? Please provide details of which newspaper and/or which section these obituaries are published in and which council officer or department within the council sends these details to the newspaper/public notice sections? Also provide questions Also, for each public health funeral would you please provide the following answers: Date of death of the deceased? Name of the deceased? Place of death/last known address? Place of birth/date of birth? Marital Status? Have the next of kin have been traced? Estate value? (if known) The date on which the details will be referred to the Treasury Solicitor (or QLTR, Duchy or National Ultimus Haeres within their jurisdictions) or any other public authority for further investigations? FOI 4831 A Slough Borough Council’s Neighbourhood Enforcement Team has dealt with three public health burials within the time-frame that you have indicated in your request. Date of Death: 01/11/2012 Date of funeral: 19/12/2012 Cost of funeral: £1112 total. £462.76 contributed by deceased Estate to be passed onto the Treasury Solicitor, QLTR or the Duchy of Cornwall: No Date of Death: 10/04/2012 Date of cremation: 25/1/2013 Cost of funeral: £1280 total. £150 contributed by deceased family Estate to be passed onto the Treasury Solicitor, QLTR or the Duchy of Cornwall: No Date of Death: 26/04/2012 Date of funeral: 22/1/2013 Cost of funeral: £1220 total. Estate to be passed onto the Treasury Solicitor, QLTR or the Duchy of Cornwall: No Next of kin has been contacted in each case. We have recently been informed of a male who may need a public health burial. Date of Death: 10/01/2013 Estate to be passed onto the Treasury Solicitor, QLTR or the Duchy of Cornwall: Unknown Slough Borough Council does not publish details of public health funerals in newspapers / public notice sections. FOI 4832 Q What funding was requested by Slough to the Department for Education for primary school basic need funding in 2011/12 and 2012/13 and what has been received and when was it received? What estimate has been made by Slough for primary school basic need funding in 2013/14 and in 2014/15 FOI 4832 A Slough does not explicitly ask for funding for numbers of places. Slough provides the DfE with information on school capacities, admission numbers and pupil forecasts. The DfE then use this data to calculate allocations, with LAs receiving a percentage of the overall funding available based on their demand. Slough has been allocated £15,420,104 of Basic Need funding for a 2 year period 2013-14 and 2014-15. FOI 4833 Q

How many parents got their a) 1st, b) 2nd, c) 3rd, d) 4th, e) 5th, f) 6th preference of primary school place, and how many parents got none of their preference of primary school place, in the following years; 2010, 2011,2012, 2013? FOI 4833 A Please see the table below. We only give parents 3 preferences and we only started collecting the data in this format in 2012 YEAR 2012 2013 1st Preference 1910 2016 2nd Preference 176 165 3rd Preference 83 52 None of their preferences 139 71 Total 2308 2304 FOI 4834 Q Can I request for the following information regarding the admission to reception year in Castleview school ,Slough for both 2012-13 and 2013-14? 1) How many applications were received in total from within the catchment area? 2) how many applicants were offered a place under the criterion 1 (applicant whose sibling attends Castleview and lives within the catchment area)? 3) how many applicants were offered a place under criterion 4 (the applicant was on roll for Castleview nursery prior to admission) FOI 4834 A 2013 2012 1. 107 94 2. 31 27 3. 53 53 FOI 4835 Q Is it correct that after Neil Aves informed a group enquiring to use communal lounge in one of the Complexes that he did not think the residents would agree certain Housing Officers showed the group around? If this did happen could I please have their names? How many staff hours and the relevant cost of consulting Residents of the Complexes on this issue? FOI 4835 A No this is not correct. N/A Officer time is not recorded in this way therefore I am unable to supply any data for this question. FOI 4836 Q We are presently preparing a flood risk assessment for submission with a forthcoming planning application for the proposed new school at the corner of Farnham Lane and Crown Lane, Slough, near SL2 2AT. (Location Plan attached) Can you please advise whether Slough Council have any records of historical flooding incidents at (or in close proximity to) the site or whether the site is located within a critical drainage area? FOI 4836 A This FOI request was responded to via two attachments. If you would like a copy of these attachments please email the FOI officer on foi@slough.gov.uk and quote the above FOI reference number. FOI 4837 Q

1) How many 16-18 year olds in your area are in education and training in the academic year 2012/13? 2) What proportion of the total number of 16-18 year olds in your area in the academic year 2012/13 does this represent? 3) How many a) 16 year olds; b) 17 year olds and c) 18 year olds are in education and training in the academic year 2012/13? 4) What proportion of the total number of a) 16 year olds; b) 17 year olds and c) 18 year olds in your area in the academic year 2012/13 does this represent? FOI 4837 A 1) The numbers available are just for education and training only, but this does not count Apprenticeships. Training is defined as employment with training to Level 2 which is not an Apprenticeship. To be clear, the figures do not include numbers of young people in employment without training. Response is: 4,054 2) As above definition, it represents 85.9% of the cohort. 3) Academic Age 16 = 1,475 Academic Age 17 = 1,432 Academic Age 18 = 1,148 (Difference of 1 due to rounding) 4) Academic Age 16 = 94.2% Academic Age 17 = 92.9% Academic Age 18 = 71.2% FOI 4838 Q 1. When your YOT was first established how many qualified social workers were included in it’s composition and what percentage of the entire Team did they form? 2. How many “social workers” were in post in advance of mandatory registration? 3. Immediately after the introduction of protection of title how many registered social workers were in post and what percentage of the entire team did they form? 4. What steps were taken to address the implications of protection of title in the context of the composition of YOTs? 5. The change in definition arising from Schedule 2 Children Act is significant for YOTs in England. If you are an English YOT what were the implications of this and what criteria did you establish to ensure that persons had “experience of social work in relation to children” noting that “social work” is a regulated profession? 6. At the present time according to post titles and required qualifications what is the composition of your YOT? 7. How many and what percentage of posts require postholders to be registered with: i. The Health and Care Professions Council distinguishing between those who are appointed as social workers, art therapists, practitioner psychologists etc? ii. Any other professional regulatory body such as the Nursing and Midwifery Council and details of such bodies 8. What qualification requirements apply to the post of Youth Offending Team Manager and what qualifications are held by the current postholder? Note that the identity of YOT Managers is publicly available information posted and regularly updated on the website of the Youth Justice Board. FOI 4838 A 1. Slough Borough Council does not hold this information due to the timescales involved 2. Slough Borough Council does not hold this information 3. Slough Borough Council does not hold this information due to the timescales involved 4. Since being in post (2004) the current YOT Manager no long seeks to ensure Social Workers are part of complement 5. As above. In addition, all job packs for case managers mention a social work qualification. 6. 24 staff

7. 29% ii. N/A 8. SW qualification - current post holder is social worker. FOI 4839 Q 1) Please detail when the current contract for the service and maintenance of lift and access equipment is due for renewal. 2) Please advise on or provide the following information: a) The date of when the next tender opportunity will be released. b) If the contract will be awarded in lots by regions or a multiple contractor award. c) The duration of the aforementioned contract and any extension periods that may be incorporated following the initial term. d) Details of the incumbent supplier. e) Detail the specification of the units involved within this contract, including the number of units and sites listed. f) A sample copy of the most recent tender advertised for the service and maintenance of lifting equipment, including a copy of the terms and conditions. g) A copy of the contract award notice for the most recent tendering opportunity for both new installations as detailed above along with the same for the maintenance of the same products. 3) Please advise where future tender opportunities will be advertised, either directly by the council or through a third party resource. If advertised through a third party, please detail the portal or resource used. 4) Please advise if KONE Lifts: a) Are currently on the current Approved Supplier list. If not, will accreditations to bodies including CHAS, Construction line, Safe Contractor, Achilles and Altius provide automatic approval? b) Are required to complete a Pre-Qualification prior to tender submission. 5) Please advise on the following: a) Is a third party facilities or property management group involved in the handling of The Council’s tender processes? If so, please detail the group involved. b) Please provide details of the individual or department responsible for procuring of The Council’s services of a specialist nature or overseeing liaison with the third party. FOI 4839 A 1) The service and maintenance of lift and access equipment is due for renewal in November 2016 2a) The service and maintenance of lift and access equipment is currently part of our Interserve contract and we will begin looking at the councils requirements for re-tendering early next year at which stage the Council will decide when and how it is proposing to re-tender the current contract. b) Until we have started the options appraisal relating to the re-tender of our Interserve contract we are unable to confirm whether the opportunity will be advertised as a whole, separately or in Lots. c) Until we have started the options appraisal relating to the re-tender of our Interserve contract we are unable to confirm the term of the new contract d) Interserve are the incumbent supplier e) Unfortunately this information isn’t readily available and is being collated for the re-tender opportunity. f) Slough Borough Council has not recently tendered for the service and maintenance of lifting equipment. We did issue a Request For Quote in May 2012 and I have attached the documentation relating to this. g) As this was an RFQ and not a tender and under the EU Thresholds no Contract Award notice was required.

3) Slough Borough Council advertises all its tender opportunities on the South East Business Portal which can be accessed via the following link www.businessportal.southeast.iep.gov.uk 4a) Slough Borough Council does not operate an approved supplier list for lift and access equipment. b) PQQ’s are required as part of the Restricted procedure and will apply for procurement activity that the Council decide to undertake in this manner. No PQQ is required if the Council decide to advertise tender opportunities using the Open procedure 5a) The Council has an internal Procurement Department which is predominantly responsible for procurement activity within the Facilities and Property Services department. We do however engage with third party consultants should we require specific technical knowledge that is not available in house. b) Joanna Anderson: Assistant Director Commissioning, Procurement & Shared Services FOI 4840 Q With regard to street parties in your local authority area, do you (a) charge to apply for a street party and if so by how much?, (b) levy any further charges for a successful bid to hold a street party and if so how much? FOI 4840 A a) Slough Borough Council does not charge for street party applications. To expand a little, the Council does not charge for offering advice, nor for issuing any instructions in relation to any such applications, nor for any other related aspect. b) In order for the Council to be able to support any street party proposal, particular those involving road closures, we do oblige organisers to provide information on their plans. We do not charge for this information, but we do tell the organisers that they may incur charges for services that they may need in the course of their planning. For cul de sacs and quiet locations, the information that the Council requires is fairly limited and likely to be cost free. For larger events, or events in more prominent locations on the network, we ask for traffic management plans and risk assessments. We also always advise event organisers to consider public liability insurance. These elements are likely to involve charges levied in any private arrangements. FOI 4841 Q How much have you spent in each of the last five years with each of the following firms, broken down by firm: (a) PricewaterhouseCoopers, (b) Deloitte, (c) Ernst & Young, (d) KPMG. Please separate the figures into (i) payments for audit functions, (ii) any other functions. FOI 4841 A Company Total Cost Cost (i) Audit Cost (ii) Other A) Pricewaterhouse Coopers

£333,902 £0 £333,902

B) Deloitte £173,602 £156,864 £16,738 C) Ernst & Young £197,853 £0 £197,853 D) KPMG £387,723 £61,169 £326,554 Total £1,093,080 £218,033 £875,047 FOI 4842 Q&A Do you produce a physical council newsletter or newspaper? - Yes Do you deliver it to households? - Yes How often is this newsletter produced? – 6 times per year Is it in colour or black and white? - Colour How much did you spend in total in the last financial year on such material? - £35,616

What was your total advertising revenue in the last financial year for adverts placed in your material? – We do not take commercial advertising What was the net profit/loss on this material in the last financial year? - N/A Do you send email newsletters? – No How often do you produce these email newsletters? How many email addresses do you have in your database? – N/A Do you broadcast council meetings over the internet? If so, which meetings? – No Do you provide Wi-Fi in the viewing gallery for public use during council meetings? – Council meetings are not held in a council building. Individual buildings used for council meeting may have wi-fi but this is outside the council’s control. Please provide me with the latest available copy of your physical council newsletter or newspaper – this has been posted to you. FOI 4843 Q & A The information that you have requested is not information that is centrally held nor is it recorded in a way that is easily accessible. I have approached a number of officers but have been unable to obtain comprehensive answers for you other than the information below. a) How many Benefit Fraudsters have you identified in the last 5 years? As with all local authorities Slough Borough Council has a statutory obligation to inform the DWP of this information but no central record is kept once this data is forwarded to the DWP. For full and accurate information you would need to re-direct your request to the DWP as this information is not held. b) Of those individuals how many were prosecuted? Please see 1 above. c) What is the total outstanding ‘debt’ to the council resulting from benefit fraud? £7.4M of Housing benefit Overpayments as at 31/3/13 d) Of those prosecuted how much money have you recovered? Information for points d and e is unavailable as our system does not differentiate between those who have been prosecuted and those who have not been prosecuted. e) How much of the ‘debt’ has the council written off? The housing benefit debt overpayment figure has been reduced by £0.96M during 12/13 f) How many “disabled blue badges” have been identified as fraudulent? None g) How many “disabled blue badge” have been cancelled as a result of fraud or fraudulent use? None h) How many” disabled blue badge” fraudsters have been prosecuted? None FOI 4844 Q Please quantify how many bottles of wine you currently hold in your reserves or investment portfolio. FOI 4844 A I can confirm that SBC has not purchased any alcohol in the last year. I can also confirm that SBC do not currently hold any wines in reserves or in investment portfolios. FOI 4845 Q How many local authority-funded and run libraries did you have on May 1st 2010 in your area? How many do you have today? FOI 4845 A On 1st May 2010 Slough Borough Council (SBC) had four libraries and a mobile library and today SBC has four libraries, three satellite libraries and a home library service. FOI 4846 Q How many directly-employed staff in your local authority area earn over (a) £50000 per annum, (b) £100000 per annum, (c) £142500 per annum?

FOI 4846 A No. of staff a) £50,000 54 b) £100,000 6 c) £142,500 1 The data above is based on Slough Borough Council staff only and the salary amounts are actual amounts as at the 01/05/2013 FOI 4847 Q&A What percentage of your senior officers (the top tier of officers) are women? 47% What percentage of your staff earning over (a) £50000 per annum, (b) £100000 per annum, (c) £142500 per annum are women? % of female staff above £50,000 48% above £100,000 67% above £142,500 100% FOI 4848 Q How many directly employed staff do you have on "zero hour" contracts? Further explanation of zero hour contracts can be found here: http://www.acas.org.uk/index.aspx?articleid=3886 Do you have a policy on the use of "zero hour" contracts by contractors? How many people working for your contractors are on "zero hour" contracts? FOI 4848 A Please be advised that we do not have any ‘zero hours’ staff at Slough Borough Council. FOI 4849 Q 1. The number of car parking facilities which are administered or owned by your local authority setting out total capacity of these facilities for cars and motorcycles. 2. The number of facilities for commercial and heavy goods vehicle parking which are administered or owned by your local authority, detailing the total capacity of these facilities for commercial and heavy goods. 3. The number of facilities which allow commercial and heavy goods vehicles to be parked between 18:00 – 8:00 in spaces designated for cars and motorcycle between 8:00 – 18:00 and how many will be converted for dual use over the next three years. FOI 4849 A This FOI request was responded to via two attachments. If you would like a copy of these attachments please email the FOI officer on foi@slough.gov.uk and quote the above FOI reference number. FOI 4850 Q 1. How many street bins do you have currently? 2. What is your current budget for management of street waste collection? 3. What is your budget for this for the next year? 4. Do you outsource your waste collection, if so who to? FOI 4850 A 1. The indicative figure that we have available from the 2002 contract is 315. 2. The 2013/14 budget is set at: £1,954,720.00 3. The 2014/15 budget has not yet been set. 4. Waste Collection is outsourced to Slough Enterprise (a subsidiary company of Amey). FOI 4851 Q How many properties in your local authority area have been sold under the 'Right to Buy' scheme since May 6th 2010?

How many social homes for rent have been built in your local authority area since May 6th 2010? How many social homes for rent to be built in future have, at this point in time, have both planning permission and financing in place? FOI 4851 A i) 71 properties sold ii)194 dwellings built iii) 211 dwellings planned to be built. FOI 4852 Q In the last financial year (2012/2013) how much money did you pay to students, who attended school under your authority’s responsibility, as compensation for personal injuries? 1. What were your authorities legal costs associated with those claims? 2. How many individual claims did this represent? 3. For all payments in excess of £500 please state the amount of compensation paid, the legal fees paid and a brief description of the nature of the claim. FOI 4852 A I advise that we made no payments in respect of injuries to school children in 2012/13. Please note that the majority of schools in this LEA do not insure via the Local Authority and therefore I would not hold records for them. FOI 4853 Q 1. Where was money received through the New Homes Bonus scheme in year two payments spent? This was paid from the Communities and Local Government department to councils in April 2012. 2. Has this money gone into a general fund, or been spent on a specific project? 3. If the money has been spent on housing, how many of those homes were affordable? FOI 4853 A 1. The money for 2012-13 was used for funding council services because the bonus is a un-ring fenced revenue fund that rewards councils that have built new housing. 2. The money has gone into a general fund because it is treated as a general grant. 3. The bonus has not been spent on supporting housing development. This is done through Slough Borough Council’s Capital Programme.