ASB escalation rule maintenance overview

All ASB activities within the control of the housing organisation, both directly and indirectly, can be service level driven and form an integral part of a wider Service Level Agreement (SLA). Within ASB there are three key components of SLA compliance tracking: amber warning period, follow-on escalation and target completion exceeded. In order to monitor compliance, individual SLA targets can be linked to the discrete tasks that are associated with an incident category. Once an SLA indicator is reached, the system can be configured to dispatch an automatic alert to one or more user accounts, notifying them of the situation; the next stage in proceedings can also be controlled through a follow-on rule i.e. the actions to be undertaken in the instance where an escalated case or task is still outstanding after a defined period. Achieved through the creation of ASB escalation rules, these automatic alerts can be defined for any combination of companies, roles and individual user accounts, at the discretion of the housing organisation. For example, an ASB escalation rule might be linked to a system role entitled 'ASB Team Leaders' and comprising several users, all of whom need to be alerted when a specific task within an ASB case reaches its amber warning period (the advance warning of an imminent target completion date). Once an alert is routed to that escalation group, all users will receive the same notification by virtue of their membership to the linked role. In general, where an ASB escalation rule links to a role, all members of that role will be alerted; conversely where individual members are associated with an ASB escalation rule, notification will be restricted to those members only. Naturally an SLA target cannot be linked to the overall ASB case, as there are many influencing factors outside of the housing organisation's control that relate to the cooperation of complainants, perpetrators and other stakeholders.

Separate help articles have been created for each key aspect of ASB escalation rule maintenance, including:

• To create a new ASB escalation rule
• To add a role to an ASB escalation rule
• To add a user to an ASB escalation rule

In addition, separate help articles focus on the creation of users and role memberships, specifically:

• To create a new user account
• To create a new role
• To assign a role to a user account