Service improvements

Northampton Borough Council

Showing service improvements between 1 April 2021 and 31 March 2022

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When we find fault, we can recommend improvements to systems and processes where they haven’t worked properly, so that others do not suffer from these same problems in future. Common examples are policy changes; procedural reviews; and staff training. Service improvements from decisions are published for 5 years and those from reports are published for 10 years.

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  • Northampton Borough Council (20 001 885)

    Category: Benefits and tax Date: 04-Aug-2021

    Summary

    The complaint is about the way the Council bills for council tax when a taxpayer is in receipt of council tax reduction. We cannot uphold one part of the complaint, about when the Council sends out bills. But we do find fault that the Council does not send out calculations when it makes a change to its council tax reduction award. The Council has agreed to our recommendations.

    Service improvements

    The Council agreed to: review its processes and advise staff of the incident and its consequences and make the training/reference material more robust; target requests for detailed council tax reduction calculations and send them to a specific priority workstream so they are treated urgently and do not get mixed up with general correspondence; change the wording on council tax bills from a passive statement to request information to a more informed statement that it is a right to have it should you so wish, something akin to ‘You are entitled to a written statement setting out the reasons for the reduction decision or, details of the appeals procedure. Please contact us within one month to request this … which will be in bold to stand out on the page.’

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