Compliance & Governance
Complaints Management
Follow the concern through to the response.
Complaint records, acknowledgement targets, communications, escalation and outcome follow-up in one workspace.
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In practice
The work behind complaints management.
Keep the original concern, supporting documents, communications and response together. Review acknowledgement targets and open complaints, record investigation and resolution work, and distinguish a prepared outcome letter from a recorded communication. Linked improvement items help carry follow-up beyond the individual case.
A complaint can be marked resolved while the person is still waiting for an explanation. Teams need to see what was decided, what was communicated and what remains to be done — with access appropriate to the people handling the concern.
Complaint Register
Capture the concern promptly and complete missing details as follow-up work. Add category, severity and supporting records. Review status and acknowledgement information from the register and case workspace.
Operational Targets
Review due and overdue acknowledgement status alongside open complaints. These operational markers support follow-up; they do not certify compliance.
Communication History
Record correspondence and contact with the complainant. Keep the channel, content and delivery information alongside the case.
Resolution and Closure
Record the resolution and outcome, then record the outcome communication or a recorded reason for closing without delivery.
Outcome Letters
Prepare an outcome letter after resolution for a non-anonymous complaint. Preparing a letter and communicating the outcome are separate steps.
Review and Improvement
Review category, severity, status and resolution metrics. Link improvement work to the case so your team can follow the response beyond resolution.
Open Disclosure Records
Record the apology, explanation, person’s perspective and follow-up details with role-controlled recording and amendment steps.
The wider workflow
Where complaints management connects.
Bring evidence, review and improvement actions into the quality conversation. Inspect a source record instead of relying only on a dashboard status.
A workflow illustration showing the broader operating context.
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Evaluation
What to inspect with your team.
Bring a representative complaints management scenario and use these questions to guide your demonstration.
Book a demo with this scenario- Walk through complaint register using a representative example.
- Check the permissions and review steps for operational targets.
- Inspect the records and outputs available for communication history.
Requirements and responsibilities
The requirements behind the workflow.
Review how these requirements apply to your services and the responsibilities your team retains.
Reference area: Complaint handling
Accessible Complaint Handling
Support people to raise concerns, keep them informed and explain the response. Pair the workspace with the provider’s complaint-handling procedures and current Commission guidance.
Safe Participation
The provider’s people and procedures must support speaking up safely. A case record or target indicator does not prevent retaliation or replace action to protect the person.
Learning from Complaints
Review the underlying records and decide what improvement is needed. Analytics support that discussion; they do not automatically establish a systemic finding.
Related workflows.
Explore the records and responsibilities that connect complaints management with the wider platform.
Quality & Improvement
Link improvement items to a complaint and review the actions arising from the case.
SIRS & Incidents
Assess a complaint that may involve reportable conduct and create or review the linked incident through the appropriate workflow.
Data Breach
Record a suspected loss or disclosure of personal information for assessment, retaining the complaint as linked source evidence.
Questions about complaints management.
Are acknowledgement and ageing targets statutory deadlines?
The software identifies these clocks as operational targets. Review them alongside the provider’s procedures, the urgency of the concern and applicable obligations. A target date is not permission to delay a response.
Does generating an outcome letter send it to the complainant?
Preparing an outcome letter and recording communication are separate steps. For an email sent from the provider’s own mailbox, the workflow records that external delivery and a delivery note. Review the communication record before closure.
Does the system automatically detect systemic issues or adverse treatment?
The workspace provides complaint records, analytics and linked improvement work for your team to review. Your team investigates patterns, takes protective action and checks the result; the software does not guarantee that adverse treatment cannot occur.
See Complaints Management in action.
Bring a complaints management scenario. We’ll walk through the relevant records, review steps and scope for your organisation.