Concerns and complaints 

Introduction

Farlingaye High School is committed to providing the best education for our young people and wants our pupils to be healthy, happy and safe, and to do well.  We recognise the importance of establishing and maintaining good relationships with parents, carers and the wider community.  We are aware that there may be occasions where people have concerns or complaints. The following procedure sets out the steps that should be followed in order to resolve these as quickly and informally as possible.

A concern may be defined as ‘an expression of worry or doubt over an issue considered to be important for which reassurances are sought’.  A complaint may be defined as ‘an expression of dissatisfaction about actions taken or a lack of action’.  There may be occasions when complainants would like to raise their concerns formally.  In those cases, the school’s procedure will be invoked through the formal stages outlined within this procedure.

A Trust-wide policy can be found under ‘General School Policies’ in the Governance section of this website. This provides full details of our approach, principles, process and timescales relating to how we deal with concerns and complaints.

Summary of procedure for concerns and complaints