Adults with Incapacity Act: activity between 1 April and 30 June 2009
Summary
In the first quarter of 2009, 311 welfare guardianship applications were notified to the Commission. Consistent with the trend over the past 2-3 years, in Scotland as a whole, there are substantially more private welfare guardianships granted, than there are local authority ones (Table 70).
The proportion of relative or carer applicants in guardianships granted during the most recent quarter is 64% (Table 71). 48% of all orders included both welfare and financial powers (Table 73). Women account for 60% of all guardianships granted in the quarter. In this quarter, 67% of women subject to welfare guardianship were over 65 years old (Table 74). This figure has remained constant for the last two quarters.
The proportion of orders granted for an indefinite duration continues to rise and for this quarter stands at 75%, which has increased from the last quarter where the figure was 70%.
In 98% 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 stands at 83% (Table 76). The corresponding figure for the previous quarter was 77%.
The following tables relate to provisional figures for welfare guardianships 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, April to June 2009
*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 by applicants
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Table 74: Welfare guardianship orders granted, by age and gender, April to June 09
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Table 75: Duration of orders, granted April and June 2009 Table 76: Powers included in orders granted
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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, mid 2008 as published in April 2009 (General Register for Scotland).
August 2009
