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Forms and guidance to register a lasting power of attorney (LPA) made using forms LP PA, LP PW, LPA114 or LPA117.
Find out the methods available for paying your deputyship fees.
How the Mental Capacity Act 2005 applies to health and social care staff.
How to manage a bank or building society account for someone else.
Apply to pay less for Office of the Public Guardian (OPG) deputy assessment and supervision fees.
Advice to help court-appointed deputies look after adults at risk.
Additional guidance for public authority deputies on how to act and what they must do to meet the standards of the role.
OPG’s standards for lay deputies, public authority deputies and professional deputies and guidance to advise on how they can meet those standards.
The standards for lay deputies, public authority deputies and professional deputies.
Additional guidance for lay deputies on how to act and what they must do to meet the standards of the role.
Additional guidance for professional deputies on how to conduct themselves and actions they must take to meet the standards of the role.
How and when to notify the Office of the Public Guardian that a donor, attorney, client or court-appointed deputy has died.
Find out about the Office of the Public Guardian's policy on protecting adults at risk of abuse or neglect.
Twenty-two new general visitors supporting work delivered by the Office of the Public Guardian.
Report and accounts showing who paid for Office of the Public Guardian and how those funds were spent.
You can pay the application fee for your lasting power of attorney online using a debit or credit card.
Apply to pay less to register a lasting or enduring power of attorney.
Official sample of a deputy order from the Court of Protection and an explanation of what makes the document valid.
The arrangements for the governance, accountability, financing, staffing and operation of the Office of the Public Guardian (OPG).
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