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Item 14 - Appendix 2

West Dunbartonshire Council · 15 June 2022
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Year 2020-21
Performance & Monitoring
Total
Complaints
Received
Complaints
Received
Stage 1
Complaints
Received
Stage 2
People & Technology  0 0 0
Regulatory 18 15 3
Resources 84 73 11
Communications, Culture, Communities & Facilities 31 30 1
Education, Learning & Attainment 107 96 11
Roads & Neighbourhood 216 205 11
Housing & Employability 80 67 13
Regeneration 249 227 22
Totals 785 713 72
0
517
122
6
1
8
0
64
56
9
0
2
785
Complaints Received
Complaint Category
Upheld per category Stage 1
Below declared service standard 0
Citizen expectation not met - quality of service 194
Citizen expectation not met – timescales 66
Council policy – does not meet criteria 0
Council policy – charges 0
Delay in service delivery 0
Error in Service Delivery 21
Council policy – level of service provision 0
Employee behaviour 19
Failure to deliver service 3
Service standards not declared 0
Total 303
Contractor 0
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Total
complaints
closed
Closed at Stage
1
Closed within 
5 Working
Days
Extension Stage
1
Exceeded S1
deadline after
extension ie
+10days
Total working
days to close
Stage 1
complaints
Average
working days
to close S1
0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 7 4 2 1 55 8
57 49 26 14 9 408 8
25 24 19 4 1 100 4
80 71 60 6 5 424 6
161 153 114 20 19 877 6
56 43 33 6 4 199 5
189 162 86 30 46 2010 12
577 509 342 82 85 4073 8
Channel Received
Social Media
Complaints Closed
Upheld per category Stage 1
Upheld per category Stage
2
Performance
% of complaints closed within SPSO timescales
0 0 average working days to close Stage 1 complaints
194 27 average working days to close Stage 2 complaints
66 7 % of Stage 1 complaints upheld
0 0
0 0 % of Stage 2 complaints upheld
0 0 E-mail
21 0 Internal Complaints form
0 0
19 1 Online Complaints form
3 0 In Writing
0 0 By telephone
303 35 TOTAL
0 0 Face to Face

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Closed at
Stage 2
Closed
within 20
working days
Extension
Stage 2
Exceeded S2
deadline after
extention ie
+25
Total working
days to close
Stage 2
complaints
Average
working days
to close S2
Escalated from
Stage 1 to 2
0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 1 0 1 55 28 1
8 5 1 2 112 61 5
1 1 0 0 20 20 0
9 8 0 1 95 29 6
8 1 2 5 223 74 4
13 8 1 4 281 64 7
27 5 4 18 1145 150 7
68 29 8 31 1931 28 30
80%
8
28
60%
51%
272 0
372
10
10
121
0
0
785
Complaints Closed
Performance
% of complaints closed within SPSO timescales
average working days to close Stage 1 complaints
average working days to close Stage 2 complaints
% of Stage 1 complaints upheld
% of Stage 2 complaints upheld
Equalities
E-mail Equality concern raised
Internal Complaints form
Online Complaints form
In Writing
By telephone
TOTAL
Face to Face

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Outcome
Upheld
Stage 1
Not Upheld
Stage 1
Upheld
Stage 2
Not upheld
Stage 2
Withdrawn
0 0 0 0 0
3 4 1 1 0
26 23 3 5 0
11 13 0 1 0
36 35 2 7 0
96 57 5 3 0
16 27 4 9 1
115 47 20 7 0
303 206 35 33 1