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Trading Standards Team Customer Charter

One of our key priorities is to provide excellent customer services. We will always:

  • be polite, friendly and offer a helpful service
  • take the time to listen and explain things
  • provide accurate information and advice, in a clear and straightforward way
  • deal with enquiries immediately, but if this is not possible, tell you who we have passed your enquiry to and give you their contact details
  • keep you informed of progress with our investigations
  • treat you fairly and with respect

Customer pledge

We aim to provide every customer with a quality service and will seek feedback from you to help further improve the quality of our services. A manager will contact you personally if you are unhappy with the service received.

We have the following standards to monitor the responsiveness of our service:

Service standard Target / response times
Public complaints and enquiries Within 5 working days
Traders requests for advice Within 5 working days
Provide a full response to traders Within 10 working days