Introducing and increasing charges for services provided by the Court of Protection Team

The Court of Protection Team helps people who have lost capacity to manage their money safely - this includes cases of financial abuse where people entrusted with managing the money of vulnerable people have mismanaged the finances, sometimes to the point of jeopardizing a person's care. The current level of fees and charges do not cover the council's costs to deliver this service.

North Tyneside Council would like to consult around proposals to increase the charges for the council to act as Deputy under the Court of Protection and to introduce charges for the customers we act as Appointee for.
By definition, the customers that these proposals affect may lack capacity to understand the consultation and therefore we are approaching interested partner agencies and North Tyneside residents for a view on reasonableness and impact.