Standards Commitee Findings
Standards Committee Findings 24th July 2012
Standards Committee Finding 19th November 2012
Comment, Compliments and Complaints
If you have a complaint or compliment please fill out the comment, compliment and complaint form in the first instance.
What happens if I complain?
We will try to sort out your complaint as quickly as possible. If we can’t sort out the matter there and then, or if you are unhappy with the response you get, you can make a formal complaint.
If you exercise your rights to complain, we will not discriminate against you in any way.
Peter Davies deals with formal complaints.
You can contact Peter:
- by phone on 01283 508309;
- by fax on 01283 508388;
- by e-mail at peter.davies@eaststaffsbc.gov.uk
How will we deal with your complaint?
We will pass your complaint to the appropriate Department who will write to you, and do all they can to sort out the problem.
If you are unhappy with their reply, your complaint will be referred to the relevant Head of Service to be reviewed. After a full investigation the Head of Service will reply to you.
If you are still not happy, the matter will be passed to the Chief Executive.
At each stage, you will receive a reply within 10 working days.
We will try to sort out your complaint as quickly and efficiently as possible. If you want to refer the matter to your local ward councillor, please let Peter Davies know and he will give you the contact details.
For advice on making a complaint, or to make a complaint over the telephone, please call the LGO Advice Team on 0300 061 0614 or 0845 602 1983. (Calls to 03 numbers will cost no more than calls to national geographic numbers (starting 01or 02) from both mobiles and landlines, and will be included as part of any inclusive call minutes or discount schemes in the same way as geographic calls. Please note that calls may be recorded for training and quality purposes.) The Advice Team are available Monday to Friday from 8.30am to 5.00pm. You can also text ‘call back’ to 0762 480 4299.
And you can contact us using a textphone via the Text Relay service (formerly Typetalk).
There are three Local Government Ombudsmen in England. Each of them deals with complaints from different parts of the country, but all new complaints will go to the LGO Advice Team (see above). Make your complaint over the phone, or send it to:
The Local Government Ombudsman
PO Box 4771
Coventry CV4 0EH
Fax: Fax: 024 7682 0001
You can make an enquiry by email to advice@lgo.org.uk, but please note that we cannot provide general advice about local government services. It is helpful if you include your name and postal address in an email enquiry.
Making a Complaint against an elected Member (Councillor) or a co-opted Member
If you wish to informally complain about an elected or co-opted Member of the Borough Council or a Parish/Town Council in the Borough of East Staffordshire, please contact the Monitoring Officer whose details are shown below.
If you wish to make a formal complaint that such a Member has breached their Code of Conduct, you should complete the Council’s Member Conduct Complaint Form and send this to the Council’s Standards Committee.
A copy of ESBC’s Code of Conduct for Members, a document providing Information for Complainants and the Member Conduct Complaints Form are available from this website or you from:
David Duckitt,
Monitoring Officer,
East Staffordshire Borough Council
Town Hall,
Burton upon Trent,
Staffordshire DE14 2EB
Tel: 01283 508000
Fax: 01283 535412
E-mail: david.duckitt@eaststaffsbc.gov.uk