Description
This course includes the most comprehensive mapping in the industry today of the legislative, welfare, financial and practical issues which interplay when advising vulnerable and older clients and their families when planning for or responding to mental capacity, health and disability difficulties.
This Advanced Certificate can be taken as part of the STEP Diploma.
Provides practitioners with the technical knowledge and practical skills required to provide a more specialist service and holistic approach when advising older and vulnerable clients.
- Gain in-depth expertise: Improve your technical knowledge with a comprehensive mapping of the legislative, welfare, financial and practical issues which interplay when advising vulnerable and older clients and their families when planning for or responding to mental capacity, health and disability difficulties.
- Practical focus: Practical advice, templates, precedents and guidance written by Caroline Bielanska.
- Build valuable connections: Network with like-minded professionals in varied roles and firms.
- Industry recognition: Awarded in association with Alliance Manchester Business School, a School of the University of Manchester.
What you will learn
- How to comply with current best practice and professional standards
- The mental capacity legal landscape
- How to assess the mental capacity of a client for different transactions
- How to plan ahead for incapacity, ill health or disability
- How to assist international clients with delegated decision making
- How to reduce the risk of disputes and successfully manage difficult situations
- How to advise those making decisions on behalf of a person who lacks mental capacity
- How to advise clients and their families on end-of-life concerns
- How to make various court applications with confidence
- How to draft trusts for vulnerable people
- How to safeguard a client when they are at risk of harm
- How to seek and challenge state support for care and support
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