MACC aims to provide a high standard of service to all the partner agencies, groups and individuals with whom we work. If you have a comment or a complaint about MACC's work, if you have a suggestion to help improve our work or simply want to say ‘well done’, we would like to hear from you. All comments, either positive or negative, are helpful for our future planning. You can send them to us by post, phone, fax or email.
If you are not satisfied with any aspect of the support you have received from us we would like to hear about it. Please feel able to discuss any concerns as soon as possible with the person you have been dealing with at MACC. They will deal with your enquiry promptly, and do their best to put things right. All members of staff are aware that at times things can (and do) go wrong and staff are encouraged to deal with such matters.
Complaints
If you wish to take matters a step further, contact the Director by telephone or in writing. You might wish to do this in order to speak to someone in authority or who is not directly involved with the complaint.
The Director will reply in writing within five working days. The reply will include:
Formal complaint
If this response is unsatisfactory, or if the complaint is about the Director, or if you simply feel that the matter is so serious that it should be dealt with at the highest level, the matter can be referred to the Chair of the Executive Committee of MACC.
Formal complaints must be put in writing.
MACC’s Executive Committee operates a Co-Chair system so there are two people who hold the position of Chair. You are free to decide which of the Chairs you wish to submit your complaint to.
- Ashley Wood
Gaddum Centre, Gaddum House, 6 Great Jackson Street, Manchester M15 4AX
- Eileen Moore
Link-Age, Methodist Church, Lansdowne Road, Crumpsall, Manchester M8 6SF
Any request for a complaint to be investigated by the Chair should be made as soon as possible, when the events are fresh in the mind, and in any case, no later than six months from the date you became aware of, or ought reasonably to have become aware of, the subject of the complaint. This should give adequate time for you to have considered your complaint, and for all relevant facts to remain fresh. Beyond this time we cannot guarantee that people and papers involved will still be available.
The Chair will respond to you in writing:
- acknowledging receipt of your complaint
- setting out the timescale for investigation and response (normally be 14 days)
- advising you if the Chair has chosen to appoint another member of the Executive Committee to undertake the investigation
Following investigation, you will receive a written response offering proposals for actions to resolve the complaint.
Right of Appeal
If the response from the Chair is unsatisfactory, you may ask the Chair to convene a special Review Panel. This will consist of two members of the Executive Committee and one independent person from another voluntary sector organisation.
The Review Panel will meet within 28 days of notification of the appeal and will look at the whole complaint, including any action which has been taken so far. The Review Panel will invite you, if you so wish, to speak to the panel.
You may have somebody present to support you or to speak on your behalf. This person must not be a member of MACC’s staff or Executive Committee. If the person you wish to bring is a lawyer, solicitor or other legal advisor, you must inform the Panel of this in advance.
The decision of the Review Panel is final.