Hello everyone,
My mum has Alzheimer’s and chose to live in a care home last year which she loves and left me as her LPA to manage her finances. I have medical conditions meaning I can’t work and live in her house, in the last year lots of repairs have been needed to the house so I would get verbal permission from my mum and speak to her financial advisors who would approve withdrawals from my mum’s savings as they were repairs on her house.
I’ve now discovered that the social worker who was assessing mum for DoLs after the care home requested it, is now in touch with mum’s financial advisers and seems to be investigating me for defrauding my mum.
The financial advisors won’t speak to me, the care home aren’t able to tell me anything as they’re rightly just looking after mum and I don’t know if the social worker who is part of the adult safeguarding team would tell me what’s happening?
My mum has been so distressed and upset by it all showed me an email she’d been given from the financial advisors to the social worker detailing everything I’d taken from my mum’s savings but not saying what it was for (half was for the care home fees).
Does anyone know if the social worker would be allowed to talk to me? And if they or anyone will ask me for my input? At the moment, I just know I’m accused of something serious and hideous from what my mum has said but no one will talk to me or tell me why it’s happening.
Thank you
My mum has Alzheimer’s and chose to live in a care home last year which she loves and left me as her LPA to manage her finances. I have medical conditions meaning I can’t work and live in her house, in the last year lots of repairs have been needed to the house so I would get verbal permission from my mum and speak to her financial advisors who would approve withdrawals from my mum’s savings as they were repairs on her house.
I’ve now discovered that the social worker who was assessing mum for DoLs after the care home requested it, is now in touch with mum’s financial advisers and seems to be investigating me for defrauding my mum.
The financial advisors won’t speak to me, the care home aren’t able to tell me anything as they’re rightly just looking after mum and I don’t know if the social worker who is part of the adult safeguarding team would tell me what’s happening?
My mum has been so distressed and upset by it all showed me an email she’d been given from the financial advisors to the social worker detailing everything I’d taken from my mum’s savings but not saying what it was for (half was for the care home fees).
Does anyone know if the social worker would be allowed to talk to me? And if they or anyone will ask me for my input? At the moment, I just know I’m accused of something serious and hideous from what my mum has said but no one will talk to me or tell me why it’s happening.
Thank you