Our overview of the Use of the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000
Our monitoring duties are set out in the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000 and are focused on the welfare provisions of the Act.
We monitor the use of the 2000 Act, visit some people on guardianship, provide advice and good practice guidance in the operation of the Act and also investigate circumstances where an adult with incapacity may be at risk.
We are part of the framework of legal safeguards that are in place to protect people on welfare guardianship and intervention orders, or for whom decision making powers on welfare have been granted to someone else via a power of attorney.
Here you can review our findings from these monitoring activities.
Please use the red menu on the left to navigate to our key findings.
For details of our investigations, advice and good practice activities this year please see our Annual Report 2008-09.
Annual reports
- directors introduction
- overview of the Mental Health (Care & Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 introduction
- new orders granted in 2008-09
- total numbers of 2003 Act orders in existence
- monitoring our priority areas
- additional findings from our monitoring of mental health law
- our overview of the use of the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000
our overview of the use of Adults With Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000
- trends in the use of welfare guardianship
- geographical variations in the use of welfare guardianship
- causes of incapacity in guardianship
- age of adults at point of welfare guardianship order approval
- length of welfare guardianship orders granted
- consent to medical treatment (part 5 AWI)
- our scrutiny of approved welfare guardianship
- welfare guardianship for adults under 25
- proposals for legislative change