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Commissioners within Children's and Adult Services
1. I am requesting the name and email address for each commissioner working within Children's Services for Wokingham Council.
There are six commissioners for Childrens Services. They are delegated responsibility by Hayley Rees.
ChildrensCommissioningTeam@wokingham.gov.uk
Council tax
1. I see you are planning to double council tax on second homes - would you be able to tell me how much you expect that to raise in the first year?
We do not hold this information.
Homeless presentations
1. How many refugee/asylum seeker households presented to the local authority as homeless in October, November and December 2023 providing the reason for homelessness as “Required to leave accommodation provided by Home Office as asylum support”.
October: 13
November: 13
Christian worship in schools
1. How many schools in your local authority area have sought exemptions from the legal requirement to hold a daily act of Christian worship in each of the following years:
a) 2022-2023: 0
b) 2022-2021: 0
c) 2021-2020: 0
d) 2020-2019: 0
e) 2019-2018: 0
Antisemitism / Islamophobia
There are several different definitions of both antisemitism and Islamophobia in use around the country.
1. Did your council adopt a working definition of antisemitism? If so,
a) Which one?
b) When?
Not formally adopted via committee
Councillors discretionary allowance
1. Do your councillors get a discretionary allowance to spend on training individually as they choose?
No
2. How much is this amount annually?
N/A
3. How many councillors are on your council?
54
Teacher Assaults
1. I would like to request the amount of times teaching staff employed in schools operated by the authority were a) physically assaulted and b) sexually assaulted in each of the last three years (2021, 2022 and 2023)?
None reported in each of the last three years.
Car parking bay sizes
1.
a) Do you have a standard parking bay size which is in place across your car parks?
Yes. Our existing off street car parks have been marked out using a mix of bay sizes either 2.4m x 4.8m or 2.5m x 5m in line with standards at the time of construction.
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