Complaints and feedback

Escalating your Stage two housing complaint

You can now, at any stage of your complaint, refer to the Housing Ombudsman for advice with your complaint. You can find out how to do this in section two of the customer feedback and complaints handling policy.

The Housing Ombudsman Service can be contacted:

  • By phone on: 0300 111 3000 between 9.15amand 5.15pm from Monday to Friday
  • By post: Housing Ombudsman Service, PO Box 152, Liverpool. L33 7WQ
  • Online: Housing Ombudsman

We are committed to putting you, our customers, first.

That means we always want to hear what you have to say about the services we provide.

By letting us know what you think - when we are doing a good job and when you think we can do better - you'll be helping us to improve the council for everybody. 

Three ways to tell us what you think:

  • pay us a compliment
  • provide general feedback
  • make a formal complaint

Please note: There are separate processes for:

Compliments

The purpose of a compliment is to let us know if you're particularly happy about a service you've received or a member of staff who has provided a service that's impressed you.

We'll share the good news, and you'll help improve the service by increasing motivation and confidence levels. Generally we won't reply to compliments.

Give us a compliment

General feedback

This is an opportunity for you to give us your general views on a service we've provided, including areas where we could improve.

We'll read your comments carefully and, where appropriate, consider where we could make changes to improve. You can tell us whether or not you want a response to your feedback.

Complaints

You can make a complaint when you're not satisfied with our standard of service, action, lack of action, or decision we've taken.

You shouldn't make a formal complaint through this process when you:

  • want us to sort out an issue or problem you consider to be our responsibility. Instead you should report a problem to us.
  • have a complaint with non-council services, organisations or individuals. You may want us to enforce something, such as a food hygiene issue, but your complaint isn't actually about a council service.
  • want to appeal a decision. Instead, you'll find information about making an appeal in the relevant area of the website, for example Council Tax, planning, housing, benefits, school admissions.

There is further information about what constitutes a complaint in our customer feedback and complaints handling policy.

How we'll handle your complaint

If you make a complaint, we will:

  • let you know we've received it within three working days
  • ask the relevant service manager to investigate and provide a response within ten working days
  • apologise if a mistake has been made and provide an explanation about what's gone wrong
  • suggest how to put things right
  • give you a chance to escalate your complaint if you're not happy

For more information about how we will handle complaints, you can read our full customer feedback and complaints handling policy. 

When dealing with a complaint, we have a right to be treated fairly and with respect. We also expect the demand on our time and resources to be reasonable, and proportionate to the seriousness of a customer's complaint. 

There are some circumstances in which the improper conduct of a customer means we will not continue dealing with a complaint. You can read more information about this our customer behaviour policy (PDF).

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