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Even in a quiet-ish week, there will still be potholes.

This week's FOI Friday: https://clairemiller.net/2024/05/freedom-of-information-in-the-news-week-ending-10-5-2024-foifriday/

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A member of staff has been awarded £8,000 in damages after being injured in an attack and while restraining a pupil at a school in Wales, has revealed.

Cardiff Council paid a further £19,500 on solicitors' fees related to the case.

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/education/school-staff-member-receives-8000-29120305

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It's often worth making requests again to get updated figures.

The number of Met Police officers arrested for domestic abuse rose to a record high in 2023.

There has been a five-fold increase, rising from 32 in 2019 to 160 in 2023.

https://inews.co.uk/news/met-police-officers-arrested-domestic-abuse-record-high-3029456

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The Princess Royal visited Power Roll in Seaham and Pragmatic in Durham in late March 2024.

An revealed that the visit cost police in the region £7,031.91, with six officers engaged in police preparation, and 15 involved on the day.

https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/24289856.seaham-meadowfield-royal-visit-cost-durham-police-7-000/

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More than four in 10 council homes sold under the Right to Buy scheme are now owned by private landlords.

found 86% of homes sold under the scheme in Brighton are now being privately rented, 73% in Milton Keynes and 59% in Dover.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/more-four-10-council-homes-32772987

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Five holiday home owners have been issued with warnings or "official advice" for digging into sea defences, shows.

There had been warnings not to dig into the shingle bank or place steps or decking on it due to fears this would weaken the defences.

https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/24288406.five-issued-warnings-digging-sea-defences/

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Slightly obsessed with the optical illusion cycle path (it’s a gift of a local news story).

But it’s a good example of using #FOI to find and follow up stories - now looking at what happened to personal injury claims.

The rest of this week’s FOI stories: https://clairemiller.net/2024/05/freedom-of-information-in-the-news-week-ending-3-5-2024-foifriday/

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shows 504,276 patients classed as Code 2, meaning they were deemed to be in need of “very urgent emergency care”, arrived at A&E not in an ambulance in 2023.

This was up 11,500 (2.4%) compared to 2022, and up 141,000 (38.9%) compared to 2019.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/tories-accused-uber-ambulance-crisis-32706981

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Another might suggest one of the reasons why people are having to make their own way to hospital.

Just 78 per cent of ambulances nationally are operational on any given day – falling to as low as 72 per cent at South Central Ambulance Trust.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13361561/Ambulances-maintenance-reliability-issues-investigations.html

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has found there have been three deaths due to ‘missed cancers’ at County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust over the past three years

The Trust could not confirm if they were due to a ‘wrong diagnosis', or a ‘failure’ or ‘delay’ in diagnosis

https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/24279746.three-missed-cancer-deaths-durham-darlington-nhs-trust/

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shows in 2015, the last full year before Sadiq Khan became mayor, there were 456 instances of shoplifting involving weapons or tools.

The number rose to 844 in 2018, then dropped in the pandemic, but was 874 offences in 2023.

https://enfielddispatch.co.uk/armed-shoplifting-in-london-nearly-doubles/

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You can use as a kind of survey tool (as you don’t want to FOI every school).

Policy Exchange sent requests to 800 schools and found that only 11% of secondary schools had an “effective ban” on mobile phones in place.

https://www.leaderlive.co.uk/news/national/24287271.schools-ensure-pupils-hand-lock-phones-start-day---report/

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Not the ones that make pedalling up a steep hill a bit less of a challenge, but those that are more like mopeds.

shows that 260 electric powered bicycles were seized by police last year, double the 130 confiscated in 2022 & 4x as many as 61 in 2021.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13374185/Illegal-e-bikes-hit-40mph-death-traps-motorways.html

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Fibre analysis can be used as evidence to indicate if a suspect was present at a crime scene.

shows police forces paid for less than 1,000 hours of fibre analysis per year between 2018 and 2020 – the equivalent of around 30 hours per force.

https://inews.co.uk/news/police-use-forensics-slashed-crisis-unfolds-3014701

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Police figures show that only two out of 19 reports of sexual assaults in pubs, bars and clubs in four major towns have resulted in arrests.

shows Lowestoft had the highest number of reports since 2020, with 16 reports with two arrests made.

https://www.becclesandbungayjournal.co.uk/news/24280671.sexual-assaults-pubs-four-east-suffolk-towns/

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There have been more than 12,000 reported cases of scarlet fever in the last few months in the UK alone.

shows Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Trust has seen cases rise from five in to 20 cases last year.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/health/unusual-strawberry-symptom-scarlet-fever-32712800

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In 2023, Belfast City Council confiscated 671 illegal vapes, enough for two to be sold every day in the city alone, according to .

https://www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/figure-show-number-illegal-vapes-29066038

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Breaches in data security in the last three years have cost Lancashire Council £51,000 in compensation.

shows the council has suffered 19 personal data breach incidents since 2021. The payout total is the third highest figure of all county councils.

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/24281761.lancashire-county-councils-cyber-compensation-bill-tops-50-000/

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With falling response rates from central Government and patchy responses from Oxford colleges, it's perhaps not been a great week for .

However, some people did successfully get a response, if this week's FOI Friday is anything to go by.

https://clairemiller.net/2024/04/freedom-of-information-in-the-news-week-ending-26-4-2024-foifriday/

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Labour have described the varying cost of vital police equipment in neighbouring areas as “extraordinary”.

shows it costs £100 more to buy a police baton in one area, compared to the price in nearby areas.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/police-forces-cost-baton-equipment-labour-101829941.html

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With 2,494 crimes, Heathrow saw the highest total number committed of any UK airport in 2022.

When adjusting for the number of passengers, Humberside Airport had the highest crime rate, with 9.7 crimes per 100,000 passengers, shows.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/heathrow-airport-crimes-luton-police-theft-flying-b1094106.html

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A good example of a how much did that cost question.

Over £100,000 has been spent on plans to erect fencing on Werrington Fields over the last 5 years

Peterborough Council has spent £106,399 on fencing, surveys, legal advice & planning applications

https://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/politics/council/more-than-100k-spent-on-werrington-fields-fencing-plans-by-peterborough-council-so-far-4600572

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Use to get the full reports for takeaways with terrible food hygiene reports.

Find out all about the dirt, cobwebs, grease, food poisoning risk from raw chicken, and lack of proper handwashing.

https://www.thestar.co.uk/business/adnans-sheffield-health-officer-very-concerned-after-giving-west-street-kebab-the-worst-hygiene-score-4599875 and https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/24278047.oxfords-pizza-roma-cobwebs-hygiene-inspection/

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