Caroline Bielanska - Powers of Attorney Act 2023, CoP & Social Care Update

Summary

With the Powers of Attorney Act 2023 passed and plans for it to be in force soon, this session will focus on how the new process will work, what the changes from the current LPAs are, how you can add value to the service you provide, and encourage people not to do it themselves. The session will then move on to discuss some recent Court of Protection decisions and a social care update.

This session will cover:

• The Powers of Attorney Act 2023 - how digital LPAs will work
• Adding value to the digital process with drafting tips
• The role of the certificate provider following TA v The Public Guardian [2023] EWCOP 63
• Review of important Court of Protection decisions
• social care update

The training session comes with Caroline's comprehensive notes, which serve as a great resource for your practice.

The talk will start at 2pm following lunch and a chance to network from 1.30pm.

Please note this will be at Leonardo Hotel Brighton Station BN1 4DJ.

There are various car parks around, the nearest is Brighton Railway Station Car Park, Stroudley Road, BN1 4DJ (but this can fill up quickly).

You may also wish to try Churchill Square BN1 2RU , Russell Road BN1 2DX, Regency Square BN1 2FG or Brighton Theatre BN1 1US.

Caroline Bielanska TEP, Solicitor, Mediator, author & legal trainer

Caroline probably needs no introduction, but in case you didn't know all she does:

Caroline is the former Chief Executive and former Chair of Solicitors for the Elderly, an organisation she helped to found in 1999. She delivers In house legal training and for many CPD providers, including Central Law Training International, MBL, The Solicitors Group, Professional Conferences and STEP, and is well known in her specialist field, advising older and vulnerable adults who have limited physical and/or mental capacity. Caroline is trained to use Makaton signs and symbols for clients who struggle to use spoken language, and writes Easy Read legal information to empower those who struggle to otherwise access legal services.

She is a Court of Protection, health and social case mediator and member of the Civil Mediation Council. She has mediated in a wide range of disputes, ranging from contact, residency, deputyships, attorneyships and health and social care funding.

Caroline won the Trusted Advisor of the Year 2017 and the Vulnerable Client Practice Award 2017 in STEP’s Private Client Awards. She was a finalist in 2018, 2019, 2020 & 2021 in the Vulnerable Client Practice Award category. In 2019, Caroline was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by Solicitors for the Elderly and made an honorary member of the Professional Deputies Forum. In 2023, Caroline was presented with an Outstanding Achievement of the Year Award at the Private Client Modern Law Awards.

Specialist Legal Areas:

• Powers of attorney, deputyship, capacity, the Mental Capacity Act 2005, and Court of Protection practice

• Health and social care law in respect of adults (assessments, eligibility and state funding, including NHS Continuing Health Care)

• Asset Protection Trusts

• Care contracts

• Advance decisions to refuse life sustaining medical treatment

• Adult safeguarding

• Residency and care disputes

Publications:

• The Practitioners Guide to Court of Protection Practice (Bloomsbury)

• Cretney & Lush on Lasting and Enduring Powers of Attorney (Lexis Nexis)

• The Elderly Client Handbook (The Law Society)

• Elderly Clients - A Precedent Manual (Jordans)

• Elderly People and the Law (Jordans)

• The Health and Social Care Handbook (the Law Society)

• Contributor to Heywood and Massey’s Court of Protection Practice

• Formerly on the Editorial Board and contributor to The Elder Law Journal (Jordans)

• Author of ‘A Safeguarding Strategy for Recognising, Preventing and Dealing with the Abuse of Older and Vulnerable People’ (Solicitors for the Elderly)

• Technical Editor of Coldrick on Personal Injury Trusts (ARK Publishing) (1st edition)

• Former contributor to the Older Client Law Service (Tottel), and Finance and Law for the Older Client (Lexis Nexis)

Committees:

• Law Society's Mental Health & Disability Committee

• Court of Protection’s Rules Review Committee

• Stakeholder to the Office of the Public Guardian

• Panel expert convened by the Law Commission to input into drafting the consultations on the reform of adult social care

Caroline can be contacted at [email protected]

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