Headway South West London is committed to providing a high-level service to our clients. If you do not receive satisfaction from us, we need to hear from you. This will help us to improve our standards.
• Making a complaint is as easy as possible
• We treat a complaint as a clear expression of dissatisfaction with our service which calls for an immediate response
• We deal with it promptly, politely and confidentially
• We learn from complaints, use them to improve our service, and review annually our complaints policy and procedures. We recognise that many concerns will be raised informally and dealt with quickly.
• Resolve informal concerns quickly
• Keep matters low-key
• Enable mediation between the complainant and the individual to whom the complaint has been referred. An informal approach is appropriate when it can be achieved. But if concerns cannot be satisfactorily resolved informally, then the formal complaints procedure should be followed.
If you have a complaint, please write to:
Alex Lowe, Chair
Headway South West London
Suite 302,
Highland House,
165 The Broadway,
Wimbledon
SW19 1NE
1. We will send you a letter acknowledging your complaint and asking you to confirm or explain the details set out. We will also let you know the name of the person who will be dealing with your complaint. You can expect to receive our letter within 7 working days of us receiving your complaint.
2. We will record your complaint in our Complaints Register within a day of having received it.
3. We will acknowledge your reply to our acknowledgment letter and confirm what will happen next. You can expect to receive our acknowledgement letter within 7 working days of your reply.
4. We will then start to investigate your complaint.
This will normally involve the following steps:
I. We may ask the member of staff who dealt with you to reply to your complaint within 7 days of our request;
II. We will then examine the member of staff’s reply and the information you have provided for us. If necessary, we may ask you to speak to them. This will take up to 7 days from receiving their reply;
III. Headway South West London will then invite you to meet to discuss and hope-fully resolve your complaint. Headway South West London will do this within 7 working days of the end of our investigation.
5. Within 5 days of the meeting Headway South West London will write to you to confirm what took place and any solutions has agreed with you. If you do not want a meeting or it is not possible, Headway South West London will send you a detailed reply to your complaint. This will include suggestions for resolving the matter. This will be done within 7 working days of completing our investigation.