Report a Concern Case Management
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What is Report a Concern Case Management?
Report a Concern is the soft front door for a resident who has a worry, a question or an early-warning signal that doesn’t yet feel right as a formal Complaint, Safeguarding Referral, Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB) report or Disrepair claim. It is the moment a resident feels something is off and reaches out — and how the landlord handles those moments often decides whether the issue resolves at concern, escalates to a complaint, or grows into a regulatory or legal matter. The Regulator of Social Housing’s Tenant Satisfaction Measures (TSM) capture the upstream effect of getting this front door right. The Housing Ombudsman Service has repeatedly stressed in its Spotlight reports that the best landlords resolve concerns before they become complaints.
The operational challenge: a concern is, by definition, ambiguous at the moment of contact. The same call might be the early signal of safeguarding, the start of an ASB pattern, a Disrepair claim in the making or a service complaint with the wrong label. Without one shared record that triages quickly and routes precisely, concerns are misfiled, the right specialist never sees the case, and the resident’s trust falls. A single Report a Concern case at the front door — with skilled triage and clean routing into Safeguarding, ASB, Disrepair, Complaints or Tenancy Sustainment — turns the resident’s first signal into the right team’s first action.
Report a Concern — End-to-End Workflow
- Logged — concern captured from any channel into one Report a Concern case in the Propsys360 Case Management module on Microsoft Dynamics 365; resident’s preferred outcome recorded in their own words.
- Triaged — concern category assessed: safeguarding, Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB), Disrepair / Damp and Mould, tenancy sustainment, service issue, formal complaint, or early-warning signal worth tracking.
- Routed — concern flows into the right linked case automatically (Safeguarding Referral, ASB, Disrepair, Tenancy Sustainment or Complaints) with the original concern attached as evidence; resident is told where it has gone and who owns it.
- (Resolved at concern) — the issue is resolved at the soft pathway with no formal escalation; the resident is told what was done and asked whether it answered them.
- Resident contact — every update logged on the case in time order; preferred channel honoured; tone consistent with the concern’s sensitivity.
- Closed — outcome recorded against an outcome category; if the resident’s preferred outcome was met, the case closes; if not, escalation is offered.
- Trend feedback — patterns of concerns by topic, area or block surface in real time so service issues are spotted early, before they become Complaints or regulatory cases.
Report a Concern Case Management in Propsys360
- One record, one version of the truth — every Report a Concern case lives in a single record in the Propsys360 Case Management module on Microsoft Dynamics 365, replacing the contact-centre’s call notes and the housing officer’s email triage.
- Linked across Propsys360 — joined automatically to the Tenancy, Repairs, Disrepair, Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB), Safeguarding, Tenancy Sustainment and Complaints records; the concern is triaged with the resident’s full picture in front of you.
- Seven-route triage — safeguarding, ASB, Disrepair / Damp and Mould, tenancy sustainment, service issue, formal complaint and early-warning signal all handled from the same front door.
- Soft-pathway resolution — issues resolved at concern level without forcing the resident through a formal Complaints process they didn’t ask for, with full evidencing of what was done.
- Resident’s preferred outcome captured — every concern records the resident’s own words on what ‘fixed’ looks like; closure is measured against that, not against an internal category.
- Linked downstream cases — when escalation is right, the concern flows into the matching specialist case automatically with the original signal attached as evidence.
- Early-warning trend detection — patterns of concerns by topic, address or block surface in real time so service issues are spotted before they become Complaints or regulator cases.
- Reporting — concerns by category, resolution rate at soft pathway, escalation profile and Tenant Satisfaction Measures (TSM) for the front door; Housing Ombudsman Service Spotlight evidencing always live.
Teams Helped by Report a Concern Case Management
Contact Centre / Customer Service Advisor — answers the call with the resident’s full picture on one screen; triages with confidence; routes to the right specialist or resolves at concern.
Housing Officer / Neighbourhood Officer — picks up tenancy-sustainment-shaped concerns with the resident’s history already attached; soft pathway before any formal step.
Safeguarding Lead — receives high-risk concerns the same minute they’re triaged, with the multi-agency partners’ details and prior history on the case.
Complaints Officer — picks up the small number of concerns that should have been complaints from the start, with the original concern attached as evidence and the Housing Ombudsman Service Complaint Handling Code (CHC) clock starting cleanly.
Resident — feels heard at the first contact; sees their preferred outcome recorded in their own words; gets a consistent answer first time.
Director of Customer Services / Head of Resident Voice — sees concern volume, soft-pathway resolution rate, escalation patterns and Tenant Satisfaction Measures (TSM) on one dashboard; the front door is evidenced.
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