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Extension for submission of Inventories and Management Plans, If you are a financial guardian and were due to/are due to submit an Inventory of Estate or Management Plan form in March or April 2020, please note that you have been given an automatic extension until 30 April 2020 for submission. Please continue to check the news section of our website or our twitter feed for further updates
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Fees increase on 1st April 17, Fees payable to the Public Guardian will increase on the above 1st April 17. You may wish to familiarise yourself with the new fee levels outlined in Schedule 3 which will apply from 1st April 2017 – onwards. Refer to the Scottish Statutory Instrument 2016 No 260 more information
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Fees increase on 1st April 17, Fees payable to the Public Guardian will increase on the above date. You may wish to familiarise yourself with the new fee levels outlined in Schedule 3 which will apply from 1st April 2017 – onwards. Refer to the Scottish Statutory Instrument 2016 No 260 more information
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Our fees will increase on 1st April 2019, Customers are notified that the majority of fees payable to the Public Guardian will increase on 1st April 2019. See Schedule 2 of the Scottish Statutory Instrument 2018 No.86 for more information. Quick summary The fee for submitting a power of attorney document or a deed of amendment will increase to £79 Registration fees for orders made under part 6 of the Act will increase to £89 All fees associated with supervising guardians will increase
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Our fees will increase on 1st April 2019, Customers are notified that the majority of fees payable to the Public Guardian will increase on 1st April 2019. See Schedule 2 of the Scottish Statutory Instrument 2018 No.86 for more information. Quick summary: The fee for submitting a power of attorney document or a deed of amendment will increase to £79 Registration fees for orders made under part 6 of the Act will increase to £89 All fees associated with supervising guardians will increase
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Your feedback – piloted version of inventory and management plan form, Survey work helps us find out more about the customers experience of our service and it lets us see where we are doing well and what we could do differently or better. We have been piloting a combined version of the inventory of estate and management plan form. We carried out a consultation exercise with customers in June 2017. Although the results were informative and further exercise is to be carried out to gather more data from the professional group of guardians. We plan to do
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Certificate of Registration - guardianship & intervention orders, From 3rd April, our certificates of registration will no longer be bound in a heat-sealed wallet. The process of binding is both time consuming and resource intensive and we have concluded that the current process is not sustainable. The certificate will look the same otherwise
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What is an intervention order, is an intervention order? This is a court appointment which authorises a person to act and take a one-off action or make decisions on behalf of an adult with incapacity. Anyone with an interest can make an application for an intervention order. When we refer to an adult, by the Scottish Government gives further information and guidance in relation to the powers that may be sought. Before applying for an intervention order, you should seek legal advice to make sure
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Fees payable to the Public Guardian to increase from 1 July 2022, Customers are notified that the majority of fees payable to the Public Guardian will increase from 1 July 2022. Please see The Adults with Incapacity (Public Guardian’s Fees) (Scotland) Regulations 2022 for more information. The fee levels are given effect by the Table of Fees in schedules 1,2 and 3. Key points: Submitting a power of attorney document or a deed of amendment will increase to £83 Registration fees for intervention or guardianship orders will increase to £93 All fees
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Early intervention step suspended, In September 2015 we implemented an early intervention step to allow us contact with prospective financial guardians. The purpose of this type of contact was to explain the duties expected from, for a financial guardian.
We recognise that a form of early intervention with financial guardians is essential to ensure and guarantee that they are well informed of their role and the expectations, and to develop a new and improved early intervention step. A further update will be provided in due