Hi, I'm just wondering if anyone else here has been told what I have in regards to Deputyship.
After looking into the application forms/process for deputyship for my mum, I decided it would be too much to take on, and would also potentially be emotionally quite difficult. I told mum's social worker that I'd decided not to go ahead, and was expecting the council to then apply for deputyship instead. But the social worker has now told me that there is a lot of push-back now from councils, in that they say they don't have the capacity to manage the affairs of people who have family members who could do it instead.
The social worker has said "the expectation is" that I go to a solicitor, either to help me with the deputyship application, or for the solicitor to apply to be deputy themselves. They are basically trying to forcing me to do something I have said I don't feel able to do.
Has anyone else had a similar experience? What did you do? Presumably there is no legal obligation on me to do this. So if I don't back down, what happens then?
After looking into the application forms/process for deputyship for my mum, I decided it would be too much to take on, and would also potentially be emotionally quite difficult. I told mum's social worker that I'd decided not to go ahead, and was expecting the council to then apply for deputyship instead. But the social worker has now told me that there is a lot of push-back now from councils, in that they say they don't have the capacity to manage the affairs of people who have family members who could do it instead.
The social worker has said "the expectation is" that I go to a solicitor, either to help me with the deputyship application, or for the solicitor to apply to be deputy themselves. They are basically trying to forcing me to do something I have said I don't feel able to do.
Has anyone else had a similar experience? What did you do? Presumably there is no legal obligation on me to do this. So if I don't back down, what happens then?