Complaints Policy and Procedure

Complaints Policy

Bounce Teachers is committed to providing a high-level service to our customers. If something goes wrong, we need you to tell us about it. This will help us to improve our standards.

Complaints Procedure

If you have a complaint, please contact Placement Team by 0208 004 9900 in the first instance so that we can try to resolve your complaint informally.

If you have a complaint about Bounce Teachers’ handling of your personal data, or the data of an individual you represent, you can raise a complaint under this Procedure. We will acknowledge any data related complaints within 30 days of receiving them. We will investigate data-related complaints in line with this procedure and aim to provide an outcome without undue delay.

At this stage, if you are not satisfied please contact the Admin Team. You can write to them at: Bounce Teachers, SPACES Finsbury Park, 17 City North Place, London, N4 3FU or email them at admin@bounceteachers.com.

Next steps

• 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 5 days of us receiving your complaint.
• We will record your complaint in our central register within a day of having received it.
• We will acknowledge your reply to our acknowledgment letter and confirm what will happen next. You can expect to receive our acknowledgement letter within 5 days of your reply.
• We will then start to investigate your complaint. This will normally involve the following steps;
  • We may ask the member of staff who dealt with you to reply to your complaint within 5 days of our request;
  • 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 4 days from receiving their reply.
• The Admin Team will then invite you to meet them to discuss and hopefully resolve your complaint. They will do this within 5 days of the end of our investigation.
• Within 2 days of the meeting the Admin Team will write to you to confirm what took place and any solutions they have agreed with you.
  • If you do not want a meeting or it is not possible, the Admin Team will send you a detailed reply to your complaint. This will include their suggestions for resolving the matter. They will do this within 5 days of completing their investigation.
• At this stage, if you are still not satisfied you can write to us again. Nicholas Wade, Director of the company will review the Admin Team’s decision within 10 working days.
• We will let you know of the outcome of this review within 5 days of the end of the review. We will write to you confirming our final position on your complaint and explaining our reasons. If you are still not satisfied, you can write to the REC, our trade association of which we are a member, marked for the attention of the Consultancy and Compliance Team, REC, 20 Queen Elizabeth Street, London SE1 2LS, or you can contact the Fair Work Agency, which is the government authority responsible for the enforcement of certain agency worker rights, by calling 0345 161 6000.

If we have to change any of the time scales above, we will let you know and explain why.

NOTE: In any event, we will comply with any statutory procedures that may relate to your complaint.