FOI release

Contact Centres

Case reference FOI2019/00880

Published 30 August 2019

Request

• Does the Council operate a contact centre

• Is the contact centre delivered in house or by a third party

• If delivered by a third party, who provides this service

• If delivered by the Council, which directorate does it sit in

• The average number of people deployed in the contact centre (FTE) for each of 2016, 2017 and 2018, broken down into leadership, team management, frontline and support roles

• Which access channels have been delivered from the contact centre in each of 2016, 2017 and 2018

• Which service lines have been delivered from the contact centre in each of 2016, 2017 and 2018 • Which telephony system is used in the contact centre

• Which system is used to manage e-mails in the contact centre

• Which system is used to manage queues in the walk in centres

• Which systems provide online forms for customers to use

• Which Customer Relationship Management system (or equivalent) is used in the contact centre

• Which key metrics are used in the contact centre, split by access channel and covering speed of response, enquiries handled / abandoned, enquiry quality and enquiry resolution

• Which systems are used in the contact centre for each service?

• Which online forms are used by customers to access each service and are these forms integrated into the service system Performance Information: Could the council please supply the following information for each of 2016, 2017 and 2018 • How many calls were offered

• How many calls were answered by a person

• What was the average time to answer calls

• What was the average call handling time

• What percentage of calls were quality checked

• What was the average call quality score

• What was the first contact resolution rate for calls

• How many customers visited the walk in centre(s)

• How many visits were handled by a triage / front desk function

• How many visits were handled as a walk in interview

• How many visits were handled as an interview scheduled by appointment

The average triage / front desk visit handling time

• The average walk in interview length

• The average appointment interview length

• The average wait to be seen for a walk in interview

• What percentage of visits were quality checked

• What was the average visit quality score

• What was the first contact resolution rate for visits

• Number of e-mails received from customers

• Number of e-mails handled in the contact centre

• Number of e-mails passed to back office service lines

• Average staff time to handle an e-mail in the contact centre

• Average time to respond to an e-mail in the contact centre

• What percentage of e-mails were quality checked

• What was the average e-mail quality score

• What was the first contact resolution rate for e-mails

• How many web chats were started

• How many web chats were completed

• Number of customers referred to alternate staffed channels

Number of customers referred to online channels

• Average staff time to handle a web chat

• Average number of simultaneous chats handled per member of staff

• Average percentage of web chats that were quality checked

• What was the average web chat quality score

• What was the first contact resolution rate for web chat

• What was the customer satisfaction score for each service line

• What was the overall customer satisfaction score and how many customers completed surveys to deliver this score

• What was the customer satisfaction score by access channel To avoid any doubt, I am only seeking information that is routinely available to the council and used within the contact centre. As the question responses are mostly single number or Yes / No responses, for ease of collation, I attach a spreadsheet with each of the questions included in a response matrix. The matrix clearly shows each response required and should take no more than 3-4 hours to complete with available information. With this in mind.

• Where a question does not apply to the Council, please mark it as "not applicable".

• If the data requested is not measured, please mark it as "not measured"

• If the data is no longer held by the Council.

Response

Please see the attached excel spread sheet.

Documents

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