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• Updated: 30 May 2023

Help someone make decisions if they appoint you or if they lack mental capacity - includes using a power of attorney, becoming a deputy and getting a one-off Court of Protection ruling

• When you can make decisions for someone

  Someone can choose you to make and carry out certain decisions on their…

• How to make decisions

  As someone’s attorney or deputy you must: give them all the help they need…

• Checking mental capacity

  A person may not have mental capacity because of a problem with the way…

Understand the roles of accountable persons and the principal accountable person for a high-rise residential building, and what they must do.

• Updated: 18 September 2024

• Updated: 16 May 2025

Youth crime prevention programmes - how young people are put on a programme, what they're like, mentoring and involving parents and families.

Bringing people to the forefront of the Department for Transport's policies to ensure transport systems work for everyone.

• Updated: 18 July 2023

An update from the government on industry-led measures to improve player protections with regards to loot boxes in video games.

• Updated: 18 July 2023

Nominate someone for an honour or bravery award (called a gallantry award), read the New Year honours list - BEMs, MBEs, OBEs, knighthoods, outstanding achievements and contributions to public life.

Guidance for people with symptoms of a respiratory infection including COVID-19, or a positive test result for COVID-19.

• Updated: 10 June 2022

Find out if you need the Driver Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC) qualification to drive a lorry, bus or coach, or if you could be exempt.

• Updated: 24 July 2020