Equality Impact Assessment: Customer Contact 

Page updated 09/01/2012

Areas of work:

Customer Contact Centre

The Civic Centre's Customer Contact Centre is the first point of contact for residents enquiring, face to face, by telephone or via e-mail, about the Council services.
 
People can make payments and access information.
Complaints

The Council values feedback about its services and recognises the right of all its stakeholders to complain, compliment or make a suggestion about any Council activity or service. Stakeholders include local residents and businesses, visitors, suppliers of services, community groups and any other group or individual that uses or is affected by our services.

The Council is committed to ensuring that it uses customer feedback to help improve services and to focus on the needs of all our customers.

The Corporate Complaints and Feedback Policy includes the definition of a Corporate Complaint and explains how the Council will deal with such complaints. Feedback can be a complaint (corporate or otherwise) a compliment or a suggestion about a service.

 

Linked documents and information:

 

Evidence

 

Screening for impacts

Does the policy/service impact on the following?

Equality Impact Screening

 Impact Yes/No?

 Positive impact?

 Negative impact?

Key decision

Age

No

   

 

Disability

Yes

Contact Centre is DDA Compliant / Friendly – Input from Disabled Community. All advisors trained in basic sign language.

Statutory forms available in alternative formats on request. We will ensure customer information is available upon request in Braille, large print, community languages, on audiotape and pictorially

 

 

Race

Yes

Language Line effort to translate

We ensure that all complaints (regardless of stage) involving a racist incident are recorded, investigated and monitored.

Language Line removes personal interaction

 

Gender/ Transgender

No

 

 

 

Sexual orientation

No

 

 

 

Religion or belief

No

 

 

 

Health inequalities

No

 

 

 

Rurality

No

   

 

Human rights


No

   

 

Other No      

 


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