Author: stuart_hadland

The Work and Pensions Secretary has announced that benefit claimants in Harrogate will be the first to move from old style benefits to Universal Credit….

https://www.lawsociety.org.uk/news/stories/grant-of-probate-changes/

From Mental Capacity Law and Policy http://www.mentalcapacitylawandpolicy.org.uk/capacity-social-media-and-the-internet/ From Court of Protection Hub http://www.courtofprotectionhub.uk/cases/a-capacity-social-media-and-internet-use-best-interests-2019-ewcop-2]    

DWP claimant service and experience survey 2017 to 2018 https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-claimant-service-and-experience-survey-2017-to-2018  

Office of the Public Guardian Blog – Testing how an OPG mediation service might help protect vulnerable people. https://publicguardian.blog.gov.uk/2019/02/18/testing-how-an-opg-mediation-service-might-help-protect-vulnerable-people/

BBC Radio 4 – File on 4, No Place Like Home – The Inside Story of Supported Living https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0002grh

https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/pd-9b-notification-of-an-application.pdf The above practice direction came into force from December 2017 requiring 3 people to be notified of applications to become Deputy. It would now…

The Government has issued amendment regulations concerning and the impact that leaving the EU will have on the Court of Protection Rules. http://www.courtofprotectionhub.uk/news/the-family-procedure-rules-2010-and-court-of-protection-rules-2017-amendment-eu-exit-regulations-2019  

Story from BBC. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-47240151  

The next OPG and APAD liaison Meeting is at the end of March. If anyone has any issues they want to be raised by APAD…