Application Forms, Factsheets and Guidance

Application Forms

Referral form_2025

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Referral application form

Admissibility form_2025

321.18 KB 20250612-ADM_AF_(FINAL).pdf

Admissibility application form

Delay form_2025

289.85 KB 20250612-DEL_AF_(FINAL).pdf

Delay application form

SUBMAL form_2025

329.76 KB 20250612-SUBMAL_AF_(FINAL).pdf

Substance and maladministration application form

Please complete all of our application forms in Adobe.

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Updated 17 June 2025.

Guidance for Complainants

305.35 KB Who is the Service Complaints Ombudsman?

289.9 KB What redress can the Ombudsman recommend?

205.14 KB SCOAF Financial Remedy Guidelines

115.54 KB What can the Ombudsman do for me?

116.8 KB What can the Ombudsman do for family members of Service personnel?

140.46 KB Judicial Review & the Office of the Service Complaints Ombudsman

209 KB Where can I get welfare support during a Service complaint?

262.13 KB How to define Heads of Complaint in admissibility decisions

Factsheets

212.12 KB SCOAF Role and Powers

188.15 KB When SCOAF can help

240.51 KB Referrals

209 KB Welfare Support

224.99 KB Reasonable Adjustment

313.97 KB Admissibility

290.09 KB Delay

314.9 KB Substance and Maladministration

Guidance for Respondents

176.51 KB Army Respondent's Leaflet

88.5 KB RAF Respondent's Leaflet

108.53 KB Royal Navy Respondent's leaflet

111.29 KB What can the Ombudsman do for respondents to a service complaint?