FOIs received and answered – August 2011 FOI 3192 Q 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. We request the following information only The full name of the deceased The date of death Last known address Approximate value of estate (if not exempt) FOI 3192 A Slough Borough Council has not dealt with any persons who have died without a next of kin within the time frame that you have indicated in your request. FOI 3193 Q Please can you provide a list of wage rates and salary scales of all Social Care Workers (Social Work Assistants, Social workers, senior practitioners and team managers) directly employed on a permanent basis by your council. FOI 3193 A This FOI was answered on the 25/8/11 via 5 attachments. Please contact the FOI officer on foi@slough.gov.uk if you wish to be sent a copy of these attachments. FOI 3196 Q I have enclosed a copy of a letter written by the Head of Valuation Services on 2nd July 1999. In that letter reference is made to a letter written by X on 15th March 1999 to the Head of Planning Policy and Projects. I formally request a copy of that letter together with all related correspondence under the FOIA. FOI 3196 A Please find attached the response that you were sent to your original request by the acting head of asset management in March 2010. I have spoken to the acting head of asset management regarding the review of the archived records that he mentioned in his reply. He apologises for not contacting you, however he has informed me that that the review confirmed his suspicions that the archived records do not go back as far as 1999. As the letter you requested was not found during the review and no related correspondence regarding this matter was uncovered I can confirm that the council does not hold the information you have requested. Therefore I am unable to help you further with this FOI request. If you wish to receive a copy of this attachment which was sent on the 2/8/11 please email the FOI officer on foi@slough.gov.uk. FOI 3197 Q Please supply copies of the recent Castleview ransom strip sale contract and related documentation. FOI 3197 A A full reply will be sent once all the documents have been obtained from an external 3rd party source. FOI 3198 Q & A What computer software are you using for Highways Maintenance, Works Ordering and Inspections, how much are you paying per year, how many users are you licensed for and is there a fixed length associated with your current contractual arrangements, if so when?

Mayrise is the software used for Highway Maintenance and Streetworks. This is on a yearly rolling contract without user licenses. A maximum of 20 users can be using the system at any one time. What computer software are you using for Street Lighting Management, how much are you paying per year, how many users are you licensed for, and is there a fixed length associated with your current contractual arrangements, if so when? Southern Electric Contracting's FM system. We have a 3 user license with a fixed length of contract 2006 to 2012. What computer software are you using for UKPMS, how much are you paying per year, how many users are you licensed for, and is there a fixed length associated with your current contractual arrangements, if so when? Symology is the software used for UKPMS; bridge maintenance is built into this software package. It is based on a 3 user license on a yearly rolling contract. What computer software are you using for Street Works, how much are you paying per year, how many users are you licensed for and is there a fixed length associated with your current contract arrangements, if so when? Mayrise - please see above. What computer software are you using for Bridges/Structures, how much are you paying per year, how many users are you licensed for, and is there a fixed length associated with your current contractual arrangements, if so when? Symology - please above. We have not provided information regarding the costs of the software utilised by the Council as this is considered commercially sensitive information. FOI 3199 Q 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 4 weeks. We request the following information only: The full name of the deceased The date of death Last known address Approximate value of estate (if not exempt) FOI 3199 A Slough Borough Council has not dealt with any persons who have died without a next of kin within the time frame that you have indicated in your request. FOI 3200 Q I would like to make a Freedom of Information request to establish how many playing pitches - whether it is for football, rugby, cricket or hockey etc - have been lost on council-run public parks in the past 10 years. If there have been any pitch losses, could you please tell me for what reasons the pitches have been closed. FOI 3200 A Further to your request, Slough Borough Council owned public park playing pitches vary in quantity from year to year depending on demand. If pitches are not used they are left as standby pitches should we need to alternate pitches or if additional demand. No land allocated to sports pitches has been lost in the last ten years or more. We are in the process of adopting more land with pitches due to come into action next year. FOI 3201 Q & A Please disclose how many times inappropriate images have been found on council computers during each of the last five financial years. (Please give a separate figure for each year.) We have no record of any “inappropriate images” being found on Council computers during each of the last five financial years

In each instance, please state how many council staff have been subject to disciplinary action and what action was taken? N/A Breaking down the data by year, please specify how many images were found, and whether they were rated as “highly inappropriate”, “inappropriate”, “illegal” or “other” N/A. Please also outline what sort of material the council understands the terms “highly inappropriate”, “inappropriate” etc. to encompass. N/A If the council uses any software to identify inappropriate images on council computers, please specify what kind of software and how much it has cost the council over the past five financial years. The Council is GCSx security accredited. We have invested in software to ensure that the Council’s infrastructure is protected from this sort of material. The main software utilised is Clearswift Secure Web Gateway and Clearswift Secure Email Gateway. The cost of software licensing for this is circa £18,000 per annum. FOI 3202 Q & A The total amount of money paid to all trade unions for financial periods a) 2009-10 and b) 2010-11 broken down by trade union. I can confirm that the Council does not pay any monies to a Union from its budgets. However the Council does collect subs from individual’s staff members on the union’s behalf which are then forwarded on. For each trade union for which it applies, please provide the number of Full Time Equivalent (FTE) staff working for the union (this is sometimes called ‘Trade Union facility time’) in 2009-10 The Council employed - 1 full time for Unite, 1 part time (0.5) for Unison and 1 part time (0.5) for NUT 2010-11 The Council employed - 1 full time for Unite, 1 full time for Unison, 1 part time (0.5) for NUT, 1 full time for GMB FOI 3203 Q I would like to make a freedom of information request regarding the Local Authority's projected expenditure on social care. I note that the Local Authority has reported its projected "net current expenditure" and "net total cost" of social care for 2010/11 and 2011/12 to the Department of Communities and Local Government. Given that this requires the projection of total current expenditure on social care and projected total income from social care services, I would like to request the following information: The projected total income from "sales, fees and charges" and "other income" (as reported to DCLG for final outturn summaries); The projected "total expenditure"; The projected total "employees"; For the following services / budget lines, for both 2010/11 and 2011/12: 311 – Social care strategy – children 324 – Children and Young Peoples Safety 325 - Children's and families' services - asylum seekers 329 - Children's and families' services - other 330 - Social care strategy - adults 340 - Older people (aged 65 or over) including older mentally ill 351 - Adults aged under 65 with physical disability or sensory impairment 352 - Adults aged under 65 with learning disabilities 353 - Adults aged under 65 with mental health needs 375 - Other adult Social care - asylum seekers - lone adults 379 - Other adult social care - other 390 – Total social care I believe these are the standard DCLG reporting designations. It would be great if I could get the expenditure and income figures in £000s for the units.

I would understand if the projected level of employees is unavailable. If so, the financial data requested would be adequate. FOI 3203 A As well as the answer below a table showing expenditure and charges is available as an attachment. Please contact the FOI officer on foi@slough.gov.uk if you wish to be sent a copy of this attachment. Information on Projected Expenditure for 2011/12 can be obtained from the link that is referred to in a copy of an email from DCLG. (Copied below) Dear Colleague This is to inform you that the Statistical Release "Local Authority Revenue Expenditure and Financing England 2011-12 Budget" was published this morning. The information in this statistical release is derived from Revenue Account (RA) budget returns submitted by all local authorities in England and we would like to thank them for their co-operation. The key points from the latest release are: Budgeted total net current expenditure by local authorities in England totals £118.1 billion in 2011-12, compared with £121.2 billion in 2010-11, a decrease of 2.6%. There has been a transfer of responsibilities between NHS and local government relating to adults with learning difficulties in long stay NHS institutions. As a result of this discontinuity between the two financial years (2010-11 & 2011-12), it is difficult to compare total net current expenditure. 36.4% of budgeted total net current expenditure in 2011-12 is on education, 18.0% on social care, 15.6% on housing benefits and 10.0% on police. 26.0% of budgeted revenue expenditure on a non-International Accounting Standard 19 basis in 2011-12 is estimated to be funded through council tax, 29.1% through formula grant and 44.0% through specific grants inside Aggregate External Finance and Local Services Support Grant. In 2011-12 local authorities are budgeting to draw down £971 million from their reserves to finance their revenue expenditure. The individual local authority data used to compile this statistical release are also published today. The release and individual local authority data are available on the Department for Communities and Local Government web site at: Statistical release: http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/corporate/statistics/revenue201112budget Individual local authority data: http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/corporate/statistics/revenuelocaldatabudget201112 FOI 3204 Q Please provide me with details about how much your council has spent, in each of the last three financial years, on unauthorised or temporary gypsy and/or traveller encampments. Please provide me with details about how much your council has spent, in each of the last three financial years, on unauthorised or temporary gypsy and traveller settlements. Please provide a total expense figure for each of the financial years: 2008 – 2009; 2009 – 2010; 2010 – 2011. Please include any costs spent on clearing sites, legal fees, clean-up costs, increased security measures to protect council land, waste disposal, bailiffs, barriers, CCTV systems and repairs and any other costs incurred. If possible, please provide a breakdown of the costs for each of the three financial years. If this breakdown of costs goes beyond the limits of time you can spend on this FOI application, please simply include a total figure for each financial year. Please provide me with details about how many unauthorised gypsy and traveller encampments and settlements were dealt with by your council during the course of the last three financial years. Please include the names of the locations of these unauthorised encampments / settlements, or a description of the site. For example a football pitch, school field or lay-by etc.

Please provide me with details about how much money has been set aside, if any, by your council for provision for dealing with future unauthorised gypsy and traveller encampments and settlements. FOI 3204 A The costs to the council of unauthorised or temporary gypsy and/or traveller encampments/settlements are as follows: 2008 - 2009 - £2,100 2009 – 2010 - £33,788 2010 - 2011 - £1,980 These costs include clearing sites, clean-up costs, waste disposal, bailiffs, repairs to barriers and CCTV systems. Unfortunately these costs do not include the legal costs incurred as these are not held centrally and would mean officers going through files manually. It is the view of our Litigation Solicitor that the time taken to do this would be over the prescribed limit as laid down by the FOIA. We do not differentiate between encampments and settlements and so please take our figures as the sum of both. These costs are spread over the following sites of unauthorised gypsy and traveller encampments and settlements 2008 - 2009 - three sites; The Centre – Conference Centre, Farnham Road – Car Park Land north of St Anthony’s Church, Farnham Road – Private Open Space Upton Court Park – Public Open Space 2009 - 2010 - five sites; Crown Meadow Park – Public Open Space Upton Court Park – Public Open Space Vicarage Way Car Park, Colnbrook – Car Park Bloom Park – Public Open Space Telecom site, Langley Road – Private Open space 2010 - 2011 - three sites Upton Court Park – Public Open Space Bodmin Avenue - Lay-by Scafell Road - Lay-by No specific funds are set aside for dealing with current or future unauthorised gypsy and traveller encampments and settlements. Funds are found, when necessary, out of normal operational budgets for each service area. FOI 3205 Q I would like to make the following request under the Freedom of information Act 2000. A copy of the contract with Westco Trading Ltd A copy of all invoices from Westco trading ltd FOI 3205 A I can confirm that we do not have any contracts with Westco and have never paid Westco any monies. FOI 3206 Q Under the Freedom of Information Act, please can you provide the name, job title, email address and telephone number of the senior employees in the following positions (some of these functions may be combined in your organisation). IT Director Procurement Director Head of Resources Chief Finance Officer FOI 3206 A Please find below the answer to your FOI request. I have given you the names of the directors who have overall responsibility for the area identified and have also given you the names of the senior officers who have day to day responsibility for these areas. All SBC email addresses are firstname.lastname@slough.gov.uk

Julie Evans Strategic Director for Resources and Regeneration has overall responsibility for Resources and Finance – 01753 875301 Roger Parkin Strategic Director Customer & Transactional Services has overall responsibility for IT – 01753 875207 Jane Wood Strategic Director for Community and Wellbeing has overall responsibility for Procurement – 01753 875751 IT Director – Simon Pallett - IT Service Delivery Manager - 01753 875095 Procurement Director – Joanna Head - Assistant Director Commissioning & Procurement - 01753 875285 Head of Resources – Julie Evans – see above Chief Finance Officer – Emma Foy - Interim Head of Central Finance - 01753 875358 FOI 3207 Q I would like a copy of the parts of roads in Slough the highways department maintain on the mapinfo that shows roads and highways are in pink and private land is White thanks FOI 3207 A Your request for information has now been considered and I am not obliged to supply the information you have requested. In accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000 this letter acts as a Refusal Notice. The exemption applied is Section 21. This exemption applies because the information you have requested is reasonably accessible to you by other means. Slough Borough Council has an adopted register which shows the pink adopted areas and white private areas in Slough - members of the public are free to come and look at this after making an appointment. If you wish to make such an appointment can you please telephone 01753 477477. We cannot provide Map Info plans of the whole of Slough as this is a service we provide at a cost under Local Searches in the Highways Development Team. 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 3208 Q I am writing to request details of incidents of lost data by council employees. To outline my request as specifically as possible, I’m asking for the following: The number of cases where data consisting of personal information of council residents or employees was lost while in the custody of an employee of the council and the nature of the data. Data may be on a laptop, data stick, external hard drive, sensitive papers or otherwise which were lost (not reported stolen) and include names, home addresses, bank details, mobile phone numbers, etc. The number of employees of the council that have been disciplined internally losing data as described above in the last three years. In each case where data was lost, list any responses by the council to rectify the situation or other ramifications such as complaints from residents, changes in staff procedures, changes in use of technology, and the disciplinary action taken (if any) against the employee. In each case, I request that you provide a clear, itemised list of the offences committed by the individual in question i.e. "Council USB left/lost in internet cafe" or "Council external hard drive left in taxi". FOI 3208 A I can confirm that there have been no reported data losses in the past 3 years. FOI 3209 Q I wonder if you will be good enough to explain the differences between SBC's Housing Department and SBC's Highways Department. I have been told that both departments build and maintain roads and street lights and that, in reality, the Housing Department is really a branch of the Highways Department although someone else said it is vice versa and that Highways is a sub-division of Housing. I am confused. On the Northborough Estate some roads and streets lights are maintained by Highways and the rest by Housing even when the street lights and the roads are of the same type.

On the roads where Highways look after the maintenance of roads and street lights there are houses. And the same applies to roads and street lights maintained by Housing, there too are the same type of houses and street lights so why the distinction between which council department maintains roads and street lights? Can you tell me in some detail what is the actual remit of SBC's Housing Department and is it a department or a sub-department or a section or a directorate or a service? Who funds the Housing Department and if it gets grants from, for example, the Lottery or the EU, are those funds designated only for specific purposes like refurbishing the Langley flats at the corner of London Road and Langley High Street or can those grants be used for any purpose in the Housing Department? I understand there is a HRA (Housing Rates Account?) funding the normal operation and expenditure of SBC's Housing Department but does the Housing Department have other regular sources of income to fund it’s staffing, operating and expenditures? Who actually pays the HRA money to SBC? Is it the public, the council tenants or central government? Finally is it true the Housing Department's only task is to management council flats and houses only in the borough of Slough and the shops on the Britwell, Northborough, Trelawney and Parlaunt estates? FOI 3209 A First despite what you may have been told, Highways and Housing are two separate and distinct departments of the council. Housing’s core responsibilities are to manage the homes and associated land that are owned by the council. In some areas this may include some roads, generally when they are those that are internal to a council housing estate, rather than just part of the public highway. The housing core remit includes maintaining and repairing council housing (including some shops), throughout the borough, not just those you have mentioned, Letting the properties to tenants from the council housing waiting list, Managing those tenancies, including collecting the rent and dealing with issues of anti social behaviour on the part of tenants. These activities are funded from the HRA (Housing Revenue Account) which is made up of the rent collected from all tenants. The HRA does not have other sources of income like the Lottery or EU in the way you’ve suggested. Housing also has a broader remit including regulating the activities of private landlords, acting to prevent homelessness, giving housing advice and dealing with applications to join the council’s waiting list. As these activities are not directly linked to council housing it would not be reasonable to expect rent payers money to fund them and therefore they are funded from the council’s general fund. FOI 3210 Q Under the Freedom of Information Act I would like to request a full list of the Subcontractors and Suppliers that worked on the Brunel Bus Station Development in Slough, with contact details where possible. FOI 3210 A The main construction contract for the bus station was with McLaren Construction Group; they managed all the subcontractors. Mclaren Construction Group PLC Warners Mill Silks Way Braintree Essex CM7 3GB Company No. 05384316 The main supplier’s contract was with G&T; they managed the design and sub consultants’ team. Gardiner and Theobald LLP 10 South Crescent London WC1 E7BD Company No. OC307124

FOI 3211 Q What I would like from you is a list of all of the individual teams and areas within Children's and Young Peoples social Service’s and also Adults social Service’s (such as, but not limited to, Learning Disabilities Team and Physical Disabilities Team and so on) who the team manager’s and who the service managers are for each of these teams. FOI 3211 A This FOI was answered on the 25/8/11 via 7 attachments. Please contact the FOI officer on foi@slough.gov.uk if you wish to be sent a copy of these attachments. FOI 3212 Q With regards to the Restriction of the pavement at The Crown/Bath Road adj. Slough Central Library when was this last checked by SBC officers to see that it meets the agreed position of the fencing. How many times has it been checked since it was first restricted? What were the results of these inspections? How many complaints has the council received about this issue? What action are you taking in respect of my complaint about this serious Heath and Safety issue? FOI 3212 A Skanska acknowledges your emails written to the Slough Borough Council regarding the traffic management fencing on High Street West adjacent to the Slough Central Library. We are sorry to hear that you have encountered problems with the pedestrian access on High Street West. It is Skanska's policy to take Health and Safety matters very seriously and therefore we have investigated your complaint. I took part in a Health & Safety/Quality tour on Wednesday 17 August 2011 and paid particular attention to the High Street West works. Skanska will take the appropriate actions from the safety tour which will include approaching the appropriate businesses to remove the trip hazards from the pavement. Skanska has already placed warning signs on the fencing regarding cyclists "cyclists please dismount" and "Bicycles chained to the fence will be removed". As part of the project works, Skanska have a full time traffic management team to check all traffic management twice a day and extra vigilance has been taken to remove any trip hazards and maintain pedestrian access. Skanska works in partnership with Slough Borough Council on a daily basis to maintain a safe environment for the public during the execution of the works. We have commenced the installation of the paving on High Street West. Once the paving is completed within the existing works area, we will be changing over the traffic management/fencing to the opposite side of the footway to work directly outside the shop fronts. Skanska will ensure that there is a safe pedestrian walkway for the members of public and access for all customers to the businesses. FOI 3213 Q On what date was the council first aware that the Heart of Slough scheme would require the demolition of Mackenzie Street's western side? On what date did the council first notify the effected premises? What precisely will occupy the effective premises present position? FOI 3213 A The planning application for the Heart of Slough master plan was approved in July 2009. The HoS Master plan is indicative only and shows a pedestrian access through into Mackenzie Square without precise dimensions. Planning approval for The Curve (Library and Cultural Centre) was given in August 2010 after a number of public displays and open consultation events and indicates a pedestrian opening and access onto Mackenzie Square in future and includes the wording “SCOPE FOR THE FUTURE DEMOLITION OF 7-11 MACKENZIE SQUARE FOR ENHANCED PUBLIC REALM AND PEDESTRIAN LINKS.” It is unclear if there will be wholesale demolition of Mackenzie Street's western side. Final designs will indicate how wide the access will be and so how many premises will be affected. The premises on Mackenzie Street have more recently been notified of CPO for two main reasons:

They will back onto the area on which The Curve is being built so will have crane oversail and restricted access from the rear (always clear on ALL master plan illustrations) There is a potential for purchase of additional property interests in the future to improve the aspect and open pedestrian route but this is not being actively pursued at the moment. FOI 3214 Q I would like to request under freedom of information all documentation relating to Blandford Close, Blandford Road North since the construction of Blandford Close. To start with, I would like to know who repaired the Private Street Blandford Road North, when this was done and the name of the person / department that commissioned this work and the budget holder within the council who approved the work and the contact details for the suppliers/contractors commissioned to do the work. These works being the commissioning of lighting, the laying of the tarmac surface and the subsequent repairs to the tarmac and the addition of two sleeping policemen. FOI 3214 A This FOI was answered on the 22/8/11 via 12 attachments. Please contact the FOI officer on foi@slough.gov.uk if you wish to be sent a copy of these attachments. FOI 3215 Q I wish to find out the location of all dog waste bins and any parks where my dog is allowed to walk off the lead in the area for which you are responsible as a Council. Please can you send me maps highlighting the locations of all dog waste bins and parks suitable for dogs off the lead? FOI 3215 A The information regarding the location of dog waste bins is not held by the Council. Dog waste can be placed in any standard parks litter bin for disposal. All parks within Slough are suitable for dogs off the lead so long as they are under control although this is currently under review. FOI 3216 Q & A This is a freedom of information request surrounding “Specific PCT allocations for social care”, which were allocated as part of the 2011/12 NHS Operating Framework. How much did the government say you would be receiving? £1.324m How much have you received? £1.324m Will the money received be spent on adult social care only? Yes How do you plan to spend this money? A number of projects have been agreed jointly with the PCT. They include specific initiatives in intermediate care & end of life care, re-ablement, nursing care packages & project management FOI 3217 Q I request maps showing all land within the authority area that falls into the following categories: green belt land, local authority owned land, local authority designated brownfield sites, undeveloped land currently held by developers (also known as “landbank” land) village greens Allotments FOI 3217 A Just to advise you I have placed the council’s open space data into file name Slough Borough Council within FOI file. FOI 3218 Q & A

These questions relate only to Direct Payments to people with learning disabilities and for the time period between June 1st 2010 and June 1st 2011. Has the Local Authority reviewed Direct Payments to people with learning disabilities within the last year?

Yes; people who are receiving direct payments are reviewed annually Has the Council taken formal decisions about Direct Payments to people with learning disabilities either in Council or at a Management level in the last year, that have impacted on the level and number of such payments being made?

SBC has now introduced Personalised budgets; a person can have a direct payment to purchase services to meet their identified needs. There was some increase in the number of people purchasing services through direct payments. Over the last year: Has the number of people with learning disabilities receiving Direct Payments increased or decreased (please give numbers on June 1st 2010 and June 1st 2011) 2009/10 – 56 2010/11 – 66 Increase by 10 Has the average amount of Direct Payment per person increased or decreased? (please give average figures) 2009/10 – £10,799 2010/11 - £10,855 Increase by £52.30 Has the hourly rate for support staff funded by Direct Payment increased or decreased (please give figures) We do not specify an hourly rate as people are provided with a personal budget. This enables them to purchase services to meet their agreed needs. Has the amount of Direct Payment for funding other than for staff support (e.g. funding for activities, transport etc) increased or decreased (please give figures on June 1st 2010 and June 1st 2011) With the introduction of personal budgets since December 2010. the direct payment is not now broken down into different elements, but is given as a whole as part of the personal budget. So we are unable to give you a comparative figure.

List the number of cases where Direct Payments have been reduced and where this decision has been appealed against.

One case where the direct payment has been reduced and the family disagree. List the number of cases where the Council has issued civil proceedings to recoup any

money from Direct Payments they believe to be outstanding as a result of review. SBC has not issued court proceedings to recoup monies from any LD service users List the number of cases of people with learning disabilities receiving Direct Payments

which have involved input from the Local Authority’s legal department to resolve challenges, complaints or disputes.

The same case as identified above List the number of cases and type of change where there has been a change to an existing arrangement for the Direct Payment for a person with a learning disability (e.g. where a family member previously managed the Direct Payment on behalf of their relative, and this has been transferred local authority managed budget administered by a broker)

Four cases. One case identified above. Direct payment inappropriately used. Support provided by an agency managed by SBC Family no longer wanted to be responsible for managing direct payment & employing a personal assistant. Support provided by an agency managed by SBC. Family no longer wanted to be responsible for managing direct payment & employing a personal assistant. Respite care to be provided by an in-house service. Service user returned to Slough from residential college, direct payment for transport no longer needed. FOI 3219 Q I would like information on people dying with no next of kin being known at the time of death from the date of my last request of 1/4/11 to the day of your response to this request. If someone died before 1/4/11 but the case has only come to your attention since my last request, could you please also include details, as follows: Dates of death Approximate area of death - I do not require any addresses. A locality or postcode region (for

example S10). The date you sent information to the Treasury Solicitor (or, if in Lancashire, the Duchy of Lancaster, or, if in Cornwall, the Duchy of Cornwall), or confirmation that this action was not applicable. If you have yet to send the information on, as per 3 above, or a decision has not yet been made whether or not to do so, please also advise of this. FOI 3219 A Slough Borough Council has not dealt with any persons who have died without a next of kin within the time frame that you have indicated in your request. FOI 3220 Q Please kindly reveal the starting and finishing date of former employee X who worked at your council for several years, including 2008-2011. Please also state their job titles at the time which include Asst Dir Finance Business & Resources Asst Dir Finance - Council Tax Deputy Director of Finance and also, perhaps, Deputy Director of Resources. FOI 3220 A X started work for Slough Borough Council on 6th February 2006 and finished on 10th May 2011. Please see below Job Titles and time period these include: Assistant Director Finance & Resources Management, 6th February 2006 – 31st December 2006 Assistant Director Resources Commissioning and Performance, 1st January 2007 – 7th June 2009 Deputy Director of Finance, 8th June 2009 – 10th May 2011 FOI 3221 Q & A I am interested in what has happened to children’s centres since the ring fence was removed and the budget amalgamated into the early intervention grant. What was the revenue budget given by you to Sure Start Children’s Centres in 2010/2011? £1,176,869 What is the revenue budget approved by you for Sure Start Children’s Centres in 2011/2012? £1,179,000 What was your target number of children’s centres by April 2011? 10 How many had opened by April 2011? 10 Since April 2011: How many children’s centres have closed? None How many have had their budget cut? None How many have been told their future is currently under review? All of them but this does not presume that any will close. The review is to look at the most appropriate future management structure because the Local Authority currently runs the Children’s Centres in their entirety, including the childcare services. How many have opened? None Have you had held a consultation on the future of children’s centres? Not yet – the review has not started. How many people responded? Not applicable How many people wanted all centres to remain open with budgets intact? Not applicable

FOI 3222 Q Has the authority made any compulsory redundancies from 1 April 2010 – 31 March 2011? Please provide the number of employees (headcount) by gender taking a) voluntary early retirement; b) voluntary redundancy and c) made compulsorily redundant from 1 April 2010 – 31 March 2011. Please count only those employees who have left. Do not include employees whose fixed term contract has ended. If you are not able to provide a breakdown between voluntary/ compulsory redundancy, please provide numbers for total redundancies. If you are not able to provide a breakdown by gender, please provide totals. Any staff leaving under a voluntary severance scheme should be included in the totals for voluntary redundancy. Please provide the number (headcount) of full time and part time employees by gender taking voluntary early retirement, voluntary redundancy and made compulsorily redundant from 1 April 2010 – 31 March 2011. Do not include employees whose fixed term contract has ended. If you are not able to provide a breakdown between voluntary/ compulsory redundancy, please provide numbers for total redundancies. If you are not able to provide a breakdown by gender, please provide totals. Any staff leaving under a voluntary severance scheme should be included in the totals for voluntary redundancy. From 1 April 2010 – 31 March 2011 please provide a breakdown of the numbers (headcount) taking early retirement, voluntary redundancy or being made compulsorily redundant for each financial year by the occupational groups listed below. Do not include employees whose fixed term contract has ended. If you are not able to provide a breakdown between voluntary/ compulsory redundancy, please provide numbers for total redundancies. Any staff leaving under a voluntary severance scheme should be included in the totals for voluntary redundancy. What was the total revenue expenditure in the financial year 2010/11 in respect of severance payments or compensation arising from voluntary early retirement or voluntary redundancy, payments to the Local Government Pension Scheme in respect of pension strain costs arising from voluntary early retirement, voluntary or compulsory redundancy, other costs associated with voluntary early retirement, voluntary or compulsory redundancy. Please provide the number (headcount) of agency staff supplied to the authority on 1 April 2010 and 31 March 2011. If you are unable to provide the figures for these 2 dates, please provide the figures for the nearest dates for which data is available. Please provide the number (headcount) of apprentices employed by the authority on 1 April 2010 and 31 March 2011. If you are unable to provide the figures for these 2 dates, please provide the figures for the nearest dates for which data is available. From 1 April 2010 – 31 March 2011, has the authority completed equality impact assessments (EIAs) on the initial proposals and/or the final outcome of any redundancies made? FOI 3222 A This FOI was answered on the 26/9/11 via an attachment. Please contact the FOI officer on foi@slough.gov.uk if you wish to be sent a copy of this attachment. FOI 3223 Q I am seeking information from your Council regarding budgetary provision for specified matters in the last three complete financial years under Freedom of Information legislation. It would greatly help if you could use the following link to go to a version of the enquiry which will enable you to fill in the responses and submit the completed version FOI 3223 A Please give Council total Net expenditure in 2009-2010 - £106,054k Please give Council total Net expenditure in 2010-2011 - £107,656K Please give Council projected total Net expenditure in 2011-2012 - £105,655K Total Leisure expenditure 2009-10 - £1100k Total Leisure expenditure 2010-2011 - £1200k

Projected Total Leisure expenditure 2011-2012 - £1100k Expenditure Council Children's Play Areas 2009-2010 – Capital £389563 Expenditure Council Children's Play Areas 2010-2011 – Capital £812210 Projected Expenditure Council Children's Play Areas 2011-2012 – Capital £80000 Expenditure Council Children's Play Areas 2009-2010 – Revenue £37000 Expenditure Council Children's Play Areas 2010-2011 – Revenue £72000 Projected Expenditure Council Children's Play Areas 2011-2012 – Revenue £70000 Expenditure Council-provided Playschemes 2009-2010 - £83687 Expenditure Council-provided Playschemes 2010-2011 - £78125 Projected Expenditure Council-provided Playschemes 2011-2012 - £49000 Expenditure all other Council staffed play provision 2009-2101 - 0 Expenditure all other Council staffed play provision 2010-2011 - 0 Projected Expenditure all other Council staffed play provision 2011-2012 - 0 Youth Service Budget 2009-2010 - £1,609k Youth Service Budget 2010-2011 - £1,919K Projected Youth Service Budget 2011-2012 - £1,212K Grant-aid for Third Sector Children's Play Projects 2009-2010 - 0 Grant-aid for Third Sector Children's Play Projects 2010-2011 - 0 Projected Grant-aid for Third Sector Children's Play Projects 2011-2012 - 0 Please denote political control of Council – Labour FOI 3226 Q & A Your current corporate networking provider (E.G HP, Cisco) Cisco Your IP telephony and comms provider (E.G Cisco, Mitel) VirginMedia using Nortel phones. What Security Provider you use (E.G Mcafee, Checkpoint, Juniper) Check Point and Cisco firewalls security. Enterprise performance Management (E.G CA) Currently using Castle Rock SNMPc Your Data Management No specific corporate data management software. Your Enterprise Computing (E.G Veglen, Toshiba, SUN boxes) HP,Dell,Sun If you have a managed service and if so who provides it and when it is renewed? (2e2, Cisco) Most networking hardware is under support with Cisilion on a yearly renewed basis (next renewal - Oct 2011) and the networking hardware at St Martin Place is with VirginMedia on 3 years contract until September 2013. Note the Check Point firewall security is under maintenance and support with Integralis on a yearly basis, next renewal is 1st February 2012 FOI 3227 Q Please would you provide me with a list of residential and commercially owned empty properties in the borough based on your council tax list? FOI 3227 A Your request for information has now been considered and it is not possible to meet your request. I can confirm that the council does hold the information requested but it is considered 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 This exemption applies because to release details to the public of empty buildings could have an adverse effect on the economy of the borough as empty properties are more likely to be targeted for theft and vandalism. For example time and money spend to evict trespassers from empty properties or money spend to clear up the after effects of any “rave” held in vacant commercial properties would not be in the public interest.

FOI 3228 Q &A Please could you give me your basic foster care allowance for 0-4 years olds for 2010/11 and 2011/12 £125.09 for both years FOI 3229 Q & A What is the status of your local plan or core strategy e.g. has it been published or adopted? Core Strategy was adopted in 2008. How many full time development planners, conservation officers and heritage officers did you employ in 2008? 14 How many do you employ now? 12 Are there any plans to change this number in the next two years? Likely to decrease What was your planning department’s budget in 2008? Net cost of service was £803k What is your planning department’s budget now? Net cost of service is £710k Do you expect your planning department’s budget to rise or fall in the next two years? Fall FOI 3230 Q & A Please tell me your standard charges (assuming that the client is paying full price, having over £23,250 capital) for the following domiciliary services to those aged over 65: Personal care (e.g. getting up, washing, getting dressed etc) hourly rate Pre August 2011 £15.72, from 1/8/11 £16.20 Domestic help (e.g. shopping, laundry etc.) - hourly rate(s) As above Home care services (e.g. cleaning curtains, turning mattresses, repairs and gardening) – hourly rate(s) – SBC does not offer these services Meals (at home or at a day care centre - please state both prices if they are different) - flat rate per meal - Frozen delivery, per meal pre- August £2.95, from 1/8/11 £3 Hot meal delivered to client pre-August £4.70, post-August £5.98 per meal Hot meal at a day centre pre August £3.40, post August £3.50 per meal Refreshments provided at a day centre £1.00 pre August, £1.03 post August per day. Transport (round trip to day care centre and back) See transport answer below Careline (or similar telephone-based alarm service) - per week. Please include/tell us of any installation costs £112 per year, standard installation fee £30 What day care services does your authority offer to those aged over 65? Day centre provision is provided by direct payments to enable clients to purchase their own day services. However, SBC provide a dementia day centre at The Pines which has 30 places. Slough has the following voluntary providers for day centres: Pakistan Welfare Association – Lunch Club plus activities Operates twice weekly Tuesday & Wednesdays. No eligibility criteria operated. No charges currently made. Polish Lunch Club – Lunch Club plus activities. Operates twice weekly Wednesdays and Fridays. No eligibility criteria operated. Daily charge of £2.50 includes lunch and activities Age Concern Langley, lunch club plus activities. Operates Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays. No eligibility criteria operated. Daily charge of £5.00 includes lunch and activities. Seating capacity of 50 Age Concern Manor Park. Lunch Club plus activities. Operates Monday to Friday. Eligibility criteria critical/substantial operated. Daily charge of £3.50 includes lunch and activities. Capacity 25 people per day

What are the charges (per day or per session) for day care? Pre-August £33 per day, from 1/8/11 £34 per day.

Does your authority operate a weekly cap on charges per individual? If so, please confirm the cap(s) in place for the financial year for 2011-2012 No weekly cap on charges operated by this authority. If someone requires transport to get to a day centre, would your authority normally consider this as part of that person’s assessed needs, such that it becomes part of the package for consideration within the means test? Transport is included within the means tested charge. Based on the FACs eligibility criteria (as set out in the Fair Access to Care Services, Department of Health Guidance, issued under section 7(1) of the Local Authority Social Services Act 1970), please confirm which of the following applies: Subject to appropriate means testing, our authority supports: - (b) All critical and substantial needs. FOI 3231 Q & A How many seizures of counterfeit goods were recorded for the period August 2010 to July 2011 in the following categories? Alcohol = 5468 Tobacco = 248 Consumer Electronics Goods = 0 Clothing and textiles = 0 Food stuffs = 0 Other = 0 How many seizures of counterfeit goods were recorded for the period August 2009 to July 2010 in the following categories? Alcohol = 28 Tobacco = 34 Consumer Electronics Goods = 0 Clothing and textiles = 0 Food stuffs = 0 Other = 2265 How many seizures of counterfeit goods were recorded for the period August 2008 to July 2009 in the following categories? Alcohol = 0 Tobacco = 0 Consumer Electronics Goods = 0 Clothing and textiles = 0 Food stuffs = 0 Other = 2991 FOI 3232 Q & A If you have a wireless network please answer the following questions We do not run wireless networks on our corporate network. Do you allow workers to connect any device to the wireless network? N/A Do you allow visitors to use the wireless network? N/A Are there restrictions on how the wireless network can be used? N/A Who manufactures the wireless technology that you use? NA Do you allow the use of USB and other portable media devices? Yes we allow USB media devices Do you allow the use of unencrypted storage devices? No corporate policy is to use encrypted USB media devices Do you allow unencrypted data onto the internet from a corporate device? Internet access is controlled through a clear swift web gateway appliance and staff are only allowed to approved categorized sites.

In the last 12 months have you invested in measures to satisfy the data protection act? No software has been procured specifically for satisfying data protection. Over the coming year do you plan to increase, decrease or make no change to the controls you place on mobile workers and the data they use? Mobile working is under constant review and improvements and controls are reviewed regularly Do you plan to develop your use of mobile working practices in 2011 or 2012? Yes mobile working is under constant review. If you are CoCo compliant when were you last tested for compliance? N.B. Please simply state “not compliant” if this is the case August 2011 FOI 3233 Q & A Who within your Council is responsible for administering the repairs to traffic control equipment, if the same is dealt with under a third party service contract, who is responsible within the Council for administering the contract? The administration of repairs is the responsibility of the Network Management team, with the actual repairs carried out under contract by Siemens Plc. Who within your Council is responsible for the administration of repairs to street furniture, if the same is dealt with under contract, who within the Council is responsible for administering the contract? The administration of repairs is the responsibility of the Highways Maintenance or Highways Streetlighting team, with the actual repairs carried out under contract by Enterprise Plc or Southern Electric Contracting Ltd. Who is responsible for managing the budget devoted to traffic control equipment repairs? The Head of Transport. Who is responsible for managing the budget devoted to the repair of street furniture? The Head of Highways. Who within your Council is responsible for ensuring that when damage is caused to either roadside furniture or traffic control equipment that claims are pursued against the responsible third parties A Highways Technical Administrator. FOI 3234 Q Is there currently a post named 'Assistant Director Transport & Planning’? Any plans to abolish, amalgamate or rename the post? If the post becomes vacant will it be filled in the short-term with a permanent replacement? Is the post holder currently Mrs G Ralphs? Any other information about this post appreciated. FOI 3234 A I can confirm that within the councils structure there is currently a post of Assistant Director Transport and Planning and Gillian Ralphs is the postholder. I am sorry but I am unable to comment on what may or may not happen in the future with regards to the council structure. FOI 3234a 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 3234a A After carrying out substantial investigations in extracting the information you have requested, in a workable format, I have come to the conclusion that your request will exceed the appropriate limit in terms of fees (£450).

On this basis I am refusing your request under Section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. FOI 3235 Q How many contract monitoring staff who inspect services for vulnerable children and adults have been cut in the last year, and the last six months. Please give the answer in numbers, as opposed to a percentage. Also please provide the total number of those staff at the start of the period and at the end of the period in each case. How many contract monitoring staff who inspect services for vulnerable children and adults does the council plan to cut in the next two years one year six months. FOI 3235 A I can confirm that we don’t have any contracts officers who inspect services in Children’s Services. Children’s Services have independent reviewing officers which is something different. In response to your Freedom of Information request please see below the answers to your questions for Adult Social Care: How many contract monitoring staff who inspect services for vulnerable children and adults have been cut in the last year, and None cut – 3 in post the last six months. None cut – 3 in post How many contract monitoring staff who inspect services for vulnerable adults does the council plan to cut in the next two years no plans to cut staff one year no plans to cut staff six months. no plans to cut staff FOI 3236 Q & A Could you say how many CCTV Cameras are operated by SBC? Slough Borough Council CCTV Centre currently operate 79 fixed site and 7 redeployable CCTV Cameras. Could you say how many of those were obtained from the company in Maidenhead? Do not understand this question. What company are you referring to in Maidenhead? Could you say how many of the Maidenhead cameras have broken down? We have no information relating to serviceability of CCTV cameras in Maidenhead. Could you say how many fitted CCTV cameras are in 100% good working condition? All of our cameras are currently operational. FOI 3237 Q The enclosed photograph was taken on 7 March 2010. It shows what appears to be a small house in the rear garden of number X or number X Milton Road, Manor Park. Please advise the status of the rear garden premises. All the houses in Milton Road are currently rated as Council Tax band C (source: VOA web site, this evening). When does the council propose to inform the Valuation Agency of this valuable improvement to the property at X or X Milton Road? If that part of the rear garden is in South Bucks, whilst the majority of the curtilage is in Slough, does the council propose to work jointly with South Backs on the matter of the rear garden building? FOI 3237 A The address is in fact X Milton Road The outbuilding was built before August 2006 and under the pre October 2008 General Permitted Development Order. The structure is therefore permitted development and falls out of Planning Control. This outbuilding is not a self contained dwelling and is ancillary to the

house. This outbuilding was picked up as a part of the Slough Shed's Project and fully inspected. There are no Planning or Private Sector Housing issues with this address. I have spoken to my colleagues in Council Tax. The valuable improvement is classed as a rear outbuilding (shed). They will not be informing the valuation office to amend a banding as the outbuilding itself is not a dwelling under their legislation and is ancillary to the property. The property is in Slough Borough Council control fully and their will be no requirement to work with our neighbours on this issue. It may also be of interest that there is also a similar outbuilding at number X Milton Road. The same answers apply to that structure too. FOI 3238 Q From March 2011 how many public health funerals has your organisation has performed The names (including maiden names), date of death, dates of birth and last known residence for the deceased Whether next of kin have been located Has the estate, if any, been passed onto the Treasury Solicitor, Duchy of Cornwall/ Lancaster or in Scotland the QLTR and when was it sent The value of said estate FOI 3238 A Slough Borough Council has not dealt with any persons who have died without a next of kin within the time frame that you have indicated in your request. FOI 3239 Q How many public health funeral cases have you referred or are due to refer to the Treasury Solicitor from May 2011 to the date of your response. Could you supply the following: Name of the deceased (including maiden names) Date and place of death Date and place of birth Last known residence for the deceased Whether next of kin have been traced Value of the estate Date on which referred/due to be referred to the Treasury Solicitor FOI 3239 A Slough Borough Council has not dealt with any persons who have died without a next of kin within the time frame that you have indicated in your request. FOI 3240 Q & A For each of the following years ending 31 March, how many adoptive families were in receipt of an adoption allowance from Slough Borough Council? What was the average weekly amount of that allowance? Year to 31 March 2011 Number of adopters receiving an allowance 30 For numbers of child 44 Average weekly allowance £114.42 Year to 31 March 2010 Number of adopters receiving an allowance 31 For numbers of child 45 Average weekly allowance £123.21 Year to 31 March 2009 Number of adopters receiving an allowance 35 For numbers of child 50 Average weekly allowance £159.89 Year to 31 March 2008 Number of adopters receiving an allowance 29 For numbers of child 44 Average weekly allowance £136.61

Year to 31 March 2007 Number of adopters receiving an allowance 25 For numbers of child 38 Average weekly allowance £143.05 What is Slough Borough Council’s basis for calculating adoption allowances and how is that calculation linked, if at all, to the council’s allowances for foster carers and special guardians? This is currently being reviewed for our new policy that is being developed for the end of September 2011. FOI 3241 Q & A How is the Council's in-house legal team structured? Please see structure chart attached. If you would like a copy of this attachment please contact the FOI officer on foi@slough.gov.uk. Does the Council use external legal advisors? External legal advisors are used for specialist projects and occasional top-up work. Counsel are used for litigation as and when required. Counsel’s Opinions are sought from time to time as required on the full range of subject matter. If so, what is the average annual spend on external legal advice? We do not hold information which facilitates a global external legal bill as each client department pays for external lawyers direct on receipt of invoices. Legal Services does not hold an external lawyers budget. Is the Council self-insured for claims made by members of the public? The Council does not self-insure all claims made by members of the public but we have an excess currently of £60k each and every claim that means that we pay the full cost of the vast majority of claims, and the first £60k of the larger claims. Does the Council manage its own claims handling? If so, which team manages it e.g. legal, finance, HR? The claims are administered in the Finance function of the Resources Department Does the Council outsource claims handling? If so, who to? Claims Handling is out-sourced to Gallagher Bassett Is claims handling work put out to tender? If so, when is the next tender due? Claims Handling work is tendered, the current contract is on a 3 year plus two year option basis and it is expected to re-tender with a start date 1st April 2015 If the Council has insurers, are sub-excess claims dealt with in-house? If so, who are the Council's insurers? Claims below the excess are dealt with by Gallagher Bassett If so, does the Council use its selected law firms or does it have to use it's insurer's panel firms? The claims handlers panel solicitors are used for legal work in respect of claims made by members of the public are dealt. FOI 3242 Q Crematoria At present, what is the TOTAL crematorium charge (including use of chapel, waiting rooms and attendances, floral decoration, recorded or organ music, scattering/strewing of ashes, medical referee’s fee, and environmental surcharge) at each crematorium operated by the council? £570 Does the crematorium fee include an ‘environmental charge’ associated with the cost of mercury abatement, and if so, how much is this environmental charge? N/A What was the council’s total crematorium charge (as described above) In April 2010 - £545 In April 2009 - £520

In April 2006 - £370 Has the council transferred any crematoria to private sector businesses and if so: Please identify the private operator No In what year did this take place?

N/A Has the council restricted the fees which the private operator may charge, and if so what is the restriction? N/A Cemeteries How many cemeteries does the council own and operate? One How much does the council charge for an adult burial, to include an exclusive right of burial, for the minimum period of use, in a standard lawn grave, and including any interment fee? £1055 What was the charge for the same provision of a grave as described above: In April 2010 - £995 In April 2009 - £950 In April 2006 - £825 Are there any private sector cemeteries within the council’s boundaries and if so, please identify them and the company which operates them No Has the council transferred any cemeteries to private sector businesses and if so: Please identify the private operator None In what year did this take place? N/A Has the council restricted the fees which the private operator may charge, and if so what is the restriction? N/A Please indicate whether the council has had to restrict or cease burials in its cemeteries because of a lack of capacity and if so, what arrangements are there for burials? No we have not had to restrict or cease burials FOI 3243 Q What is the Council’s understanding of the legal position on charges for personal searches. What is the Council’s current charging policy for personal searches. Estimates of the financial liability for refunds of charges wrongly made.

FOI 3243 A In consequence of the Local Land Charges (Amendment) Rules 2010, with effect from 17 August 2010 no charges have been levied in respect of personal searches The Council does not have a charging policy for access to information to facilitate personal searches and no charges are levied. The supply of information is subject to a charge. Until it is proven that the Council has financial liability to refund charges no admission is made. FOI 3244 Q & A Which provider organisation(s) currently deliver the statutory Independent Mental Capacity Advocacy (IMCA) and IMCA Deprivation of Liberty Safeguarding (DoLS) services in Slough? Matrix Service Development & Training Ltd currently delivers the Berkshire IMCA Service which includes Slough. What is contract value (£ per year) of the current IMCA and IMCA/DoLS services in Slough? For 2011-12 the pooled budget for Berkshire IMCA Service is £109,732 with Slough’s contribution being £20,242. When does the current contract for delivery of the IMCA and IMCA/DoLS services in Slough expire and will that contract be extended? The current contract for the Berkshire IMCA Service expires on 31st March 2012. Which commissioning body will be responsible for commissioning the IMCA and IMCA/DoLS services in Slough when the current contract ends, and when will the new contract be tendered?

The Berkshire Implementation Network for IMCA and DOLS was established in November 2006 with Slough Borough Council as the lead commissioner. In March 2010 Wokingham Borough Council took over as the lead commissioner. Currently all six local authorities and the two Berkshire Primary Care Trusts are partners and contribute towards the Berkshire IMCA Service. This Commissioning Body will be retendering this service in this year with involvement of all the partners who wish to continue with a Joint Agreement for this service. FOI 3245 Q Details of meetings of land charges staff, including reports and minutes of such meetings. NLIS including copy contracts and differential pricing. Search numbers for official and personal searches over the last 6 years Market share of the Council for searches compared with the private sector The formulation of Council charging policies and practises for all such environmental information as to enable a land property search to be undertaken Restrictions on appointments for personal searches and number of searches permitted per appointment. Staff numbers, staff reorganisations and salary gradings. Charging policies and practices for personal searches of the local land charges register. Liability for charges illegally made. FOI 3245 A There have been no such meetings and the Council does not hold any information of the type requested. The Council does not hold any information of the type requested. From 1 January 2005 to date Official Searches 13,948, Personal Searches 11,401 The Council does not hold any information of the type requested. The Council does not have a charging policy for access to information to facilitate personal charges and no charges are levied. The supply of information is subject to a charge. 24 hours notice required and a maximum number of 15 personal searches booked per day between the hours of 10-12 and 2-4pm. 2 staff. One at Level 5, one at level 6. The response to 5 above refers Until it is proven that the Council has legal liability no admission is made. FOI 3246 Q & A Please release all correspondence, e-mails and notes detailing communications that Local Authorities would need to secure 50% of the funding of broadband infrastructure? Please find attached a copy of an email to BDUK which contains Berkshire’s expression of interest to secure its share of the BDUK funding for superfast broadband together with the documentation sent. Please release details of plans, provisions and budgets that your Local Authority has made to ensure financing of the scheme? Berkshire’s broadband working group are currently collating information and assembling resources to enable development of its local broadband plan. Please release details of assessments you have made concerning the likelihood that the roll out of superfast broadband in your area will be completed by 2015? Berkshire’s broadband working group are currently collating information and assembling resources to enable development of its local broadband plan. Please release details of steps your Local Authority has taken to collaborate with neighbouring Local Authorities or with Local Enterprise Partnerships to deliver superfast broadband Berkshire’s broadband working group consists of representatives from each of the 6 Berkshire Unitary Authority’s and representatives from the Thames Valley Berkshire LEP, who are leading the BDUK bid on behalf of Berkshire. As well as the above narrative this response which was sent on the 16/09/11 also contained 3 attachments. Please contact the FOI officer on foi@slough.gov.uk if you wish to be sent a copy of these attachments.

FOI 3247 Q Please provide me with copies of all communications from the council to local schools sent since the start of 2011 which contained advice, information and guidance on how to deal with strikes by teachers. This should include any advice from the council on whether schools should stay open when teachers are on strike. FOI 3247 A This FOI was answered on the 14/9/11 via 2 attachments. Please contact the FOI officer on foi@slough.gov.uk if you wish to be sent a copy of these attachments. FOI 3248 Q Can you please supply details of planning applications that have been submitted to your Local Authority since August 1st, 2011 for the following: Mosques – construction, expansion of existing, change of use to mosque. Islamic institute – construction, expansion of existing, or change of use to Islamic institute. Community centre – construction, expansion of existing, or change of use to community centre. Cultural centre – construction, expansion of existing, or change of use to cultural centre. Islamic school or college – construction, expansion of existing, or change of use to Islamic school or college. The details required are: Planning application reference number Site address FOI 3248 A P/04000/019 - Iqra Islamic Primary School, Grasmere Avenue Variation of condition no. 17 of planning permission reference P/04000/015 dated 11/07/2007, to allow vehicles to exit school between 53 and 55 Grasmere Avenue at school opening times (original permission: demolition of existing school & nursery; construction of new primary school; nursery; sure start centre; community room and associated parking and playing fields. new access road from Wexham Road opposite Broadmark Road.) P/14980/002 - 1, Granville Avenue Change of use of existing family dwelling house from C3 (residential) to mixed use (sui generis) comprising retention of C3 (residential) at first floor level in the form of a two bedroom flat and creation of mixed class D1 (place of worship) / class D2 (social and community use) on the ground floor FOI 3249 Q & A Do the Council's Anti Social Behaviour (ASB) Team give alleged offenders 'informal' verbal warnings? No. If so, are these recorded on any system or an offender file? n/a If 'informal' verbal warnings are given, who is present when such warnings are given? n/a If the ASB Team do not give 'informal' verbal warnings, what is the first stage of the process? Formal verbal warning? Formal written warning? Written ASB warning letters Who is present when such warnings are given? Police and/or ASB Officer Where is the issuing of such warnings recorded? On Flare & on Thames Valley Police systems Does the Council keep statistics of the number and type of warnings issued? Yes Do Council ASB investigators/officers use police style pocket books to record their working activities, particularly when working away from the office? No If not, how do they record their working activities when away from the office? In their own notebooks, then transfer notes onto recording system Flare

FOI 3250 Q & A Do you keep records of how many people assessed as needing residential long-term care have capital above the capital threshold and are therefore financially assessed as self-funding? Yes If YES, Please give a figure for the number of people in each of the financial years 2009-10 and 2010-11 that were assessed as needing residential long-term care who had capital above the capital threshold and were financially assessed as self-funding – 2009/10 six people with residential services assessed as self-funding, nine people with nursing home services assessed as self-funding. 2010/11 six people with residential services assessed as self-funding, one of these was carried over from the previous year. 12 people with nursing home services assessed as self-funding, four of these were carried over from the previous year. Do you keep records of how many people assessed as needing residential long-term care who have capital above the capital threshold and are financially assessed as self-funding, subsequently fall below the capital threshold and therefore become eligible for local authority funding towards the cost of their care? Yes If yes, please give a figure for the number of people in each of the financial years 2009-10 and 2010-11 who, having previously been assessed as needing residential long-term care and because they had capital above the capital threshold were financially assessed as self-funding, fell below the capital threshold and therefore became eligible for local authority funding towards the cost of their residential care. 2009/10 one nursing home client fell below the self-funding threshold. 2010/11 two nursing home clients fell below the self-funding threshold. Do you provide any of the following sources of financial guidance or advice for people assessed as needing long-term care who have capital above the capital threshold and are therefore financially assessed as self-funding: Information on council website - Yes Leaflet - Yes Discussion with council representative - Yes Other - No Do you provide contact details of financial advisers to people assessed as needing residential long-term care who have capital above the capital threshold and are therefore financially assessed as self-funding? No Do you keep records of how many people assessed as needing residential long-term care who have capital above the capital threshold, and are therefore financially assessed as self-funding, enter into a deferred payments arrangement with the council? Yes Please give a figure for the number of people in each of the financial years 2009-10 and 2010-11 who, having been assessed as needing residential long-term care but because they had capital above the capital threshold were financially assessed as self-funding, entered into a deferred payments arrangement with the council. For each of the above questions, please provide data for the calendar years 2009 and 2010 if financial year data is not available (please make clear that you have done this if the case). 2009/10 three people with residential home services were in deferred payment agreements, three more were self-funding without deferred payments. Five people with nursing home services were in deferred payment agreements, Four more were self-funding without deferred payments. 2010/11 five people with residential home services were in deferred payment agreements, one of these was carried over from the previous year and one more was self-funding without deferred payments. Six people with nursing home services were in deferred payment agreements, two of these were carried over from the previous year, six more were self-funding without deferred payments and two of these were carried over from the previous year. FOI 3252 Q

I would like information about any person who has died with no living blood relatives being known when they died, from the above date to the date of your response. The date(s) they passed away. The postcode region or local area of their home address they died (i.e. London N8 or Crouch End, London). The date(s) on which information was referred to the Treasury Solicitor, Duchy of Lancaster or Cornwall. Please also advise if you have yet to refer the information above, or a decision is still pending. FOI 3252 A Slough Borough Council has not dealt with any persons who have died without next of kin within the time frame that you have indicated in your request. FOI 3253 Q Please provide me with a list of premises that have a 24 hour alcohol licence for "off sales" (including any alcohol delivery services). FOI 3253 A Slough Off Licence Asda One Stop Liquor Store The Liquor Store The Wine Company Murco Costcutter Tesco Extra Esso Slough West Service Station Travelodge Heathrow Terminal 4 & 5 Express by Holiday Inn Slough Central Holiday Inn Express London Heathrow T5 Hilton London Heathrow Airport Terminal 5 FOI 3254 Q A list of all addresses and rateable values for properties up to a rateable value threshold of £12,000 A list of all addresses, up to a rateable value threshold value of £12,000, where the Council has awarded Small Business Rate Relief. FOI 3254 A In response to your request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I am refusing point 1 under Section 21, as this information is obtainable by other means. You can search for properties currently in the Rating List with an RV of £ 12,000 and under, by using the VOA website www.voa.gov.uk In respect of point 2, please find attached a list of all properties in our borough currently in receipt of Small Business Rates Relief. If you wish to receive a copy of this attachment which was sent on 27/9/11 please contact the FOI officer on foi@slough.gov.uk FOI 3255 Q & A Are you aware of the draft guidance for Garra rufa fish treatments available through the Lacors website? Yes. Please could you provide a list of businesses in your local authority who operate Garra rufa fish treatments We have been informed today that a business has started up in the Town Centre at Queensmere Shopping Centre, Queensmere Road, Slough. . It is still to be inspected and any recommendations on safe operation made. Of these, how many offer: hand/feet treatments only – 1 hand/feet AND fully body immersion - 0

Were you consulted by the proprietor of the business prior to their opening for any guidance/information and if so did you feel you could provide the necessary guidance? We have not been consulted but a visit will be made and operational procedures scrutinised for compliance. Necessary guidance can be provided by all officers in the Food and Safety Team. How many businesses did you inspect for the first time Before they opened - 0 After they had opened - 1 to be inspected. Have you had to take any enforcement action against any of the salons? If so, for what reason? N/A (pending inspection). Do you conduct water sampling at the salons? If so, do you have a specified sampling frequency? N/A, still to be inspected Can you please provide all the water sampling results that you hold? Please state clearly if the results are from a foot, hand or body tank and whether results are repeat samples from the same salon N/A, still to be inspected Do you have a standard guidance document produced by the Council for salons? If so, can you please provide a copy of this We do not have a standard guidance document. FOI 3257 Q Under the FOI act we request copies of all files held by the council in which APPS or any of its directors are mentioned. FOI 3257 A The Council does not hold any files in which mention is made of the relevant parties. The only information it holds amounts to a FOI request of 25 October 2010 on APPS letter headed paper from X and a further letter of 10 November 2010 from X. Neither letter was responded to. As both of these letters were yours, you will have copies of them. Further, there is correspondence of August 2011 from your Solicitors Fulbright, & Jaworski International LLP which has not been responded to. Again these are your letters to which you will have access. In instructions to Leading Counsel of June 2011and the Opinion thereon reference is made to the proceedings you are bringing and advice thereon is given. This is subject to legal professional privilege and is exempt under Section 42 of the Freedom of Information Act. A Public Interest test thereon has been carried out and it is considered that the public interest is best served by withholding the information as the authority must be able to consult its lawyer in confidence and be assured that what passes between them will never be revealed without their consent. FOI 3258 Q With Regards to the Dogs on Lead Order can you supply me please all the areas this consultation process has been posted. You also list some areas but carefully ask about areas people would like to be considered…..so there will be another process for those areas as well then? FOI 3258 A This consultation is borough wide and is applicable to anyone who lives, works or visits Slough. The consultation went live 1st August and ended 31st August. It was posted on the Internet promo panel and Consultations page on 1st August A press release was issued on 2nd August It was mentioned on Time FM on 2nd August an article appeared in the Slough Express newspaper on 5th August It was posted in the staff News round 11th August It was posted on Twitter 15th August An article appeared in the August citizen Certain orders list areas within the borough i.e. Dogs on Lead Order. This means that dogs will need to be placed on a lead in an area specified, for example Slough High Street. We

were asking if other areas other than those listed should be considered. If we are looking to change, vary or alter an existing order then we would need to go through the consultation process again. None of these orders currently exist they are simply being proposed and will be submitted for approval by elected members. This is a two way process if people want to reduce the areas suggested the consultation process also gives them the opportunity to do this. FOI 3259 Q & A

How many individuals were employed by the council between 1st April 2010 and 31 s1

March 2011 under the remit of pest control? None. The service is contracted out. How many full time equivalents is this? N/A What percentage change does this represent from 1st April 2009-31st March 201O? (positive =increase in overall numbers, negative = decrease in overall numbers) N/A Of those individuals, how many were employed as servicing technicians? N/A How many full time equivalents is this? N/A What percentage change does this represent from 1st April 2009 -31st March 2010? (positive =increase in technician numbers, negative =decrease in technician numbers) N/A How many initial domestic service requests involving rats did the council deploy one or more technicians to between 1st April 2010 and 31st March 2011? 903 initial pest control treatment visits were carried out by our contractor. How many initial domestic service requests involving mice were did the council deploy one or more technicians between 1st April 2010 and 31st March 2011? 97 initial pest control treatment visits were carried out by our contractor. How many initial domestic service requests involving mammals (other than rats or mice) did the council deploy one or more technicians to between 1st April 2010 and 31st March 2011? None How many initial domestic service requests involving wasps did council deploy one or more technicians to between 1st April 2010 and 31st March 2011? 306 initial pest control treatment visits were carried out by our contractor. How many initial domestic service requests involving bedbugs did the council deploy one or more technicians to between 1st

April 2010 and 31st March 2011? 72 initial pest control treatment visits were carried out by our contractor. How many initial domestic service requests involving ants did the council deploy one or more technicians to between 1st

April 2010 and 31st

March 20II? 13 initial pest control treatment visits were carried out by our contractor. How many initial domestic service requests involving cockroaches did the council deploy one or more technicians to between 1st

April 2010 and 31st

March 2011? 131 initial pest control treatment visits were carried out by our contractor. How many initial domestic service requests involving insects other than those listed above did the council deploy one or more technicians to between 1st

April 2010 and 31st

March 2011? 16 initial pest control treatment visits were carried out by our contractor. How many initial domestic service requests involving birds did the council deploy one or more technicians to between 1st

April 2010 and 31st

March 2011? None How many initial domestic service requests involving other public health pests did the council deploy one or more technicians to between 1st

April 2010 and 31st

March 2011? None FOI 3260 Q With regards to the Orchard Centre please provide me with full details of usage of all of the rooms over the past five years including Summer Holidays

Outline of agreement made for use of building by Parvaaz and subsequent situation resulting in them leaving. Who made those agreements and allowed them to change, for example, use and structure of the building. Details of current ongoing discussions regarding use of Orchard as a community building. Current users of the building and their basic contract / agreed terms of usage FOI 3260 A SWIPE occupies the rooms upstairs on a leased basis and uses them as they see fit. The two rooms at the front of the building were leased to Kollective from 18th December 2006 until 19h August 2010 when Kollective were declared insolvent. Again, their contract granted them exclusive access to this space so their usage would have been whatever they deemed appropriate. The back room was mainly used by the youth club for young people’s drop in and small group projects. The peak times of usage have been weekday evenings and daytimes during schools holidays. It has also been used by some other groups such as Princes Trust on a bookings basis. The main hall has seen very limited usage restricted to small scale youth club activities by youth service and SWIPE. Regrettably, wider use such as the large groups and weddings that used to take place at the centre has been limited due to Health and Safety issues relating to access and compliance with fire regulations subsequent to the modifications made by Kollective as part of their occupation of the front of the building. Please see attached outline agreement; they became insolvent on 19th August 2010. Alterations in 2006 were made with the approval of the Council but failed on DDA and building regulation grounds, the Council served Parvaaz notice to reinstate but this was not carried out by them. If you wish to receive a copy of this attachment which was sent on 22/9/11 please contact the FOI officer on foi@slough.gov.uk It has been agreed in principle that SWIPE will take on two additional rooms on the ground floor on the same terms as they occupy the first floor rooms. This will run initially to June 2012, dependent on the outcome of the Council’s review of its asset strategy in the context of a major report on a potential Local Asset Backed Vehicle (LABV) being considered at Cabinet in September 2011. The Orchard Centre is shown on the Council’s published agreed Asset Strategy as Category C Assets that are expensive to run, are not fit for purpose and/or have a potential capital receipt-to be reviewed with a note that subject to relocating existing services and users it should be declared surplus. SWIPE retains exclusive use of the upstairs rooms under the terms of their existing lease. Youth Services make use of the venue for 1:1 meetings with young people and some small group work with referred young people only. SWIPE also makes use of the main hall and hard court area for open access activities for young people on a bookings basis. Sikh Spirit has a regular hall booking on an hourly basis. Slough Community School have a regular booking of the hard-court area and WEA have a regular booking of the back room. There are other bookings on an ad-hoc one-off basis. Except for SWIPE’s contract, all usage of the venue is on an hourly booking basis which does not grant any exclusive access. FOI 3261 Q Do you have a contract or framework agreement in place for the supply of foster care services? Which Independent Fostering Providers does your authority have contracts with (or which providers are on your framework)? Please can you tell me, for each provider, how many children and young people are placed and what is your approximate overall annual spend? Which “off contract” providers does your authority spot purchase foster care services from? Again, please can you tell me, for each spot purchased provider, how many children and young people are placed and what is your approximate overall annual spend? FOI 3261 A An Invitation to Tender (ITT) has been issued by a partnership of 11 local authorities, including Slough Borough Council for the procurement of foster care services for children and young people and providing the information would weaken the Authority’s position in a competitive environment. The Authority has subjected the request to a public interest test and concluded that the public interest is better served by withholding information because

during the procurement process for foster care services for children and young people, disclosure of the information could compromise the legitimacy and fairness of an open procurement. FOI 3262 Q 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 4 weeks. We request the following information only: The full name of the deceased The date of death Last known address Approximate value of estate (if not exempt) FOI 3262 A Slough Borough Council has not dealt with any persons who have died without next of kin within the time frame that you have indicated in your request and no details have been passed to the Treasury Solicitor. FOI 3263 Q I notice in your reply you refer to the present with regard to contracts, so for the avoidance of any doubt I would like to point out that under an FOI Westminster City Council replied that in 09/10 Westco Trading Ltd had a contract with your authority for “Libraries Consultancy”. I would like you to confirm once again that your authority has never had a contract with Westco Trading Ltd, if they have had a contract I wish to be supplied with a copy. I would like you to confirm again that Westco Trading Ltd has never invoiced your authority, however if they have I wish to be supplied with copies of the invoices. If you can confirm that Westco Trading Ltd has never had a contract or invoiced your authority could you please confirm if Westminster City Council has had a contract with your authority for “Libraries Consultancy” and if this is so please provide a copy of that contract and any invoices for such a contract. FOI 3263 A Having made further enquiries I can now confirm that Slough Borough Council did not have a contract with Westminster City Council for the strategic library review but they did however have a SLA with Westminster and I attach this for your information. With regards to payments I can confirm that Slough Borough Council made a payment to Westminster City Council of £7,700 for the strategic review of libraries. If you wish to receive a copy of the attachment mentioned above please contact the FOI officer on foi@slough.gov.uk FOI 3264 Q & A The amount of Bad Debts written off by the Council in the last financial year 2010/11 (or the last financial year available)? A break down of the figure between the various categories (Council Tax, Parking, Housing Revenue Account, General Funds etc.) written off? £90,222.11 for 2010/11 General Fund Net write offs on Council Tax was £173K income Net write offs for HRA was £56 K If the break down of Bad Debts written off related to any amounts owed by other Councils or Local Authorities? None – we don’t write off public sector debt unless it is completely necessary. How much is owed to the Council from other Councils and Local Authorities and a breakdown of the amount owed from each Council and Local Authority? Debtors and Advance Payments 31/3/10 31/3/2011 £000 £000 Government Departments 11,209 8,591 Other Local Authorities 1,470 1,843

Housing Rents 294 288 Collection Fund 1,649 1,283 Payments in Advance 1,203 1,290 Other 12,275 10,503 Total 28,100 23,798 The amount the Council owes to other Councils and Local Authorities and a breakdown of the amount owed to each Council and Local Authority? Short Term Creditors 31/3/10 31/3/2011 £000 £000 Central Government Bodies (13,698) (10,826) Other Local Authorities (1,615) (3,251) NHS Bodies (424) (148) Housing Rents in Advance (499) (597) Collection Fund (1,103) (1,014) Refundable Deposits (122) (259) Receipts in Advance (10,153) (7,718) Interest payable (12) (10) Other (32,206) 28,718 Total (59,831) (52,541) FOI 3265 Q & A What steps are being taken to determine the extent of child trafficking in Slough? The Children and Families division respond to the needs of trafficked children coming to their attention in accordance with local policies and procedures. We contributed to the London Safeguarding Children Board guidance published in February 2011. The Slough LSCB will receive a report from Thames Valley Police at its next meeting on 6th October 2011, to consider what if any further measures should be taken to enhance local responses to children identified as having been trafficked. Barnardo’s has initiated a “Stop Children Being Exploited For Sex” campaign. What support is the Council giving to this campaign?

The LSCB has a statutory duty to prevent children from being exposed to risk of significant harm. Support for the Barnardos campaign may be considered pertinent when the report on Child Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation is discussed at the LSCB on 6th October 2011. What consideration has been given to the Barnardo’s research report “Puppet on a String” and what conclusions have been drawn? The Barnardo’s research “puppet on a String” will receive attention in connection with the police report to the LSCB referred to above. Has the Council produced an Action Plan consequent upon consideration of the Barnardo’s research report? Any actions in response to the “Puppet on a String” report will emerge from the report to the LSCB referred to above.

What steps are being taken by the Council and its Partners to improve prosecution systems and prosecution methods? The matters of prosecution systems and prosecution methods should be referred to Thames Valley Police, in the first instance.

What steps are being taken to identify vulnerable and exploited children who are “outside the system”?

The identifications of vulnerable and exploited children who are “outside the system” is a matter for all citizens, and all bodies concerned with prioritising children’s safety and well being. This will be discussed at the LSCB meeting on 6th October in relation to trafficked children and those found to be at risk of sexual exploitation. Research studies have suggested that there are probably about four times as many vulnerable and exploited children “outside the system” as those known to the authorities. Does the Council have an estimate of vulnerable and exploited children in Slough who are “outside the system”? Further work on the topic may emerge from the LSCB discussion on 6th October. Following Barnardo’s research the Government announced its intention to publish an Action Plan in order to require Local Authorities and their Partners to exercise initiatives and to become more pro-active. Has the Council made any representations

to the Government on the proposed Action Plan? If so, may I have copies of those representations, please? The possibility of representations to the government will be discussed at the LSCB on 6th October. FOI 3266 Q How much did Slough Borough Council spend on providing translation services in each of the following financial years – 2008-09, 2009-10, 2010-11 FOI 3266 A For 08/09 and 09/10 I am unable to extract the British Sign Language costs. 08/09 - £154,789,83 09/10 – 131,755,99 For 10/11 our contracts have changed and I am able to extract these costs. Total I&T services: £95,536.57 I&T services minus BSL requests: £90,912.33 FOI 3267 Q Please could you send us the Tenancy Agreement that the Council currently uses for allotment plots in the Council? Please could you send us the previous Tenancy Agreement for allotment plots in the Council? Was the agreement changed following a public consultation? Please could you send us the documentation associated with this consultation that highlights the change in Tenancy Agreement for allotment plots in the Council? Is the Council planning to chance the current Tenancy Agreement for allotment plots in the Council within the next 12 months? Can you please send us the cost of an allotment within your Council for the years: 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and what they will be for 2012 and 2013. Can you please send us the cost of using water as charged to individual plot holders within your Council for the years: 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and what they will be for 2012 and 2013. Can you please send us the rate of the discount available for renting an allotment plot within your Council for the years: 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and what they will be for 2012 and 2013. What has the cost of waste removal been to the Council in relation to allotment sites for the years 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and what are they likely be for 2012 and 2013? FOI 3267 A This FOI was answered on the 22/9/11 via 5 attachments. Please contact the FOI officer on foi@slough.gov.uk if you wish to be sent a copy of these attachments. FOI 3268 Q Please state the price of all parking permits at your local authority broken down by area and length of permit for each of the financial years 08/09, 09/10 and 10/11 in an Excel spreadsheet. Please state the number of permits issued to council employees by your local authority broken down by area and length of permit for each of the financial years 08/09, 09/10 and 10/11 in an Excel spreadsheet. FOI 3268 A This FOI was answered on the 15/9/11 via 2 attachments. Please contact the FOI officer on foi@slough.gov.uk if you wish to be sent a copy of these attachments. FOI 3269 Q & A Please tell me in which cases your council charges people to make payments by credit card or by debit card. These could include but are not limited to payment of council tax parking tickets dog fouling and street litter fines housing rent

Where applicable, please state which card types incur a charge, and also please tell us how much these charges would be - either stated as a percentage or as a flat fee. Please state if these charges apply when paying in person, by telephone or online. A credit card charge is applied to all credit card payments irrespective of the service provided. Please tell us why you apply these charges, and how you decided on the amount of the charge to be applied to each relevant transaction. The income from these charges contributes towards the bank charges incurred by the council. The rate charged is equivalent to the bank charge incurred. Please tell us the total amount of income received through the application of charges for paying by debit card or credit card in the financial year 2010-2011 (if these fees apply). 2010/11 £7.6k Please tell us if all of the income received through the application of charges for paying by card in the financial year 2010-11 was used to cover the cost of processing payments, or if all or any of this income was applied elsewhere within the council. The income from these charges contributes towards the bank charges incurred by the council.