Transforming Customer Experience and Digital Services
Rising energy prices and a cost of living crisis meant that the services we delivered to support our customers in 2022/23 were needed more than ever. Throughout these challenging times we continued our journey to deliver a brilliant customer experience in everything we do; listening to our customer feedback and involving tenants to influence how our services could be delivered and improved.
We dealt with almost 267,500 transactions with customers with 192,000 of these through our digital services. We worked with you, to transform and modernise access to our services and, as a result, we rolled out our new, enhanced customer App and online portal ensuring customers can access services anywhere, anytime. Improved service tracking means you are kept informed about things that matter to you such as progress with repairs, rent account balances and contacting us to make an enquiry.
The performance for 2022/23 shows that we deliver a highly responsive and convenient customer experience and that you have told us that you would recommend us as a landlord. This is demonstrated by our net promoter scores and satisfaction results.
We are committed to improving the experience all of our customers receive and ensuring that all tenants are treated fairly and with respect. We worked with the Chartered Institute of Housing and a group of tenants and designed our new organisational values. These have been embedded in the behavioural expectations of all of our employees to ensure we build trust with our customers, respect their needs while we carry out service and that we, as a business, work together to innovate, learning when things go wrong and constantly improve the experience we deliver.
From April 2024 the Regulator for Social Housing is set to introduce new requirements landlords will be expected to meet in terms of Transparency, Influence and Accountability. These expectations are aimed at improving the experience tenants receive from landlords by ensuring everyone has fair access to services, and that the service standards you can expect are delivered and that your voice is heard to help us improve services that really matter to you.
We will always try to answer queries at the first point of contact, and when this is not possible we will let you know who will be dealing with your query and provide updates until the query is resolved. In 2022/23, we resolved 88% of customer enquiries at First Point of Contact. Where we could not answer the initial enquiry, we contacted 85% of customers within two working days to give an update. View more local offers here.
We listened
You said you wanted an app that was easy to sign in to and contained information that was relevant and important to you about your tenancy.
We acted
We launched My Livin, a new re-designed app and portal co created with you, our tenants focusing on giving you more access to the services you need the most.
Your voice
Complaints and compliments
In 2022/23 the Housing Ombudsman released a new complaints handling code. We worked with you to revise our policies, procedures and accessibility to our complaints service.
We are required by the regulator to complete a self-assessment against the Code each year.
You also have the right to contact the housing ombudsman if you are not happy with a response from us.