Adults with Incapacity Act: activity between 1 October and 31 December 2008
Summary:
Adults with Incapacity Act activity
The total number of welfare guardianship applications notified to the Commission in the third quarter of 2008 was 341. During the same period, 281 applications were granted. For Scotland as a whole, there are now substantially more private welfare guardianships granted, than where the local authority is the applicant (Table 70).
281 welfare guardianship interlocutors were received during the quarter (Figure 4) compared with 267 last quarter. The proportion of relative or carer applicants in interlocutors received during the most recent quarter is slightly higher at 62% than in the previous quarter when it was 60% (Table 71). 49% of all orders included both welfare and financial powers (Table 73). Women account for 58% of all interlocutors received in the quarter.In this quarter, 67% of women subject to welfare guardianship were over 65 years old (Table 74).
The proportion of orders granted for an indefinite duration continues to be very high at 68%, a slight decrease from last quarter where the figure was 70%.
In 99% of orders granted, the power to determine care and accommodation (or where adult should reside) was included. The percentage of orders granted which include the power to give consent to medical treatments, research or supervise medication at 82% (Table 76) remains largely unchanged from the previous 2 quarters of 2008.
The following tables relate to provisional figures for interlocutors granted
Table 70: Numbers of local authority and private* applications granted for welfare guardianship, by local authority area, and per 100,000 population over 16, October to December 2008
*The term 'private' refers to all non local authority applications including those made by relatives, carers and solicitors.
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Table 71: Applicant status
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Table 72: Welfare guardian status
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Table 73: Type of powers sought
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Table 74: Welfare guardianship orders granted, by age and gender, Oct-Dec 08
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Table 75: Duration of orders, granted October and December 2008
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Table 76: Powers included in orders granted
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Figure 5: Welfare guardianship orders granted by quarter 
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Notes on the data:
The figures for orders granted in the quarter are provisional. The Commission can experience significant delays in receiving copies of decisions made with respect to applications. We continue to work with the organisations that supply information to us to make sure this type of report is accurate in future. Population figures are projections for persons aged 16 and over, at June 2007 (General Register for Scotland).
February 2009
