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Professionals wishing to join the scheme must complete and submit their application form before 30 November 2016. As part of the scheme’s criteria, a firm’s nominated scheme owner will be required to attend our training workshop, which will be held early in 2017. Other staff assisting professional guardians in their duties will be welcome to come along to the workshop with their firm’s scheme owner. Workshop locations and details will be provided in due course. If you wish further
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To request an expedited registration of a PoA “on cause shown” please email POA-INV@scotcourts.gov.uk inbox. This measure will allow the service to be managed appropriately and help ensure that the process is being used in cases of true urgency
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the interests of the adult concerned. It is important however, that you can give as truthful and complete
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We are part of the Scottish Court & Tribunals Service (SCTS). Under the data protection law you are entitled to obtain certain personal information that an organisation, be found in the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service privacy notice. In line with GDPR we have
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for the future, these reasons would not meet the criteria to allow the PoA to be treated as urgent. However, everyday banking transactions on someone’s behalf. Where/How to request an expedited registration
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in the testing. Staff will also attend mandatory training on how to use the new system. We realise that time spent in the testing and training environment will impact on how quickly we can respond to enquiries
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If you are seeing a 'Please wait...' error when trying to open one of our documents
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for withdrawers including a booklet to record their transactions. provide an update to us on progress
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There have a number of developments and initiatives with PoAs and this article offers a round-up of the current position. Most significant is the continuing upward trend over the past 5 years the number of PoAs received. We record both number registered and number received categories, the number received figure is a more accurate reflection of PoA usage, given the difficulties we have currently with processing PoA demand. The number received figures show that there has been a 21% increase
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We are currently processing electronic (EPOAR) submissions received on 3 July and postal submissions received on 6 June and appreciate that we are currently out with our processing target of 30 working days. Processing times were on target until recently and we are taking measures to rectify the position, including training a large number of new staff. Our website and twitter page is updated weekly to let you know the dates of the submissions we are processing. An expedited registration