Talk:Office of the Public Guardian (England and Wales)

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This is Simon Busch from the editorial team at the Office of the Public Guardian (OPG). We wanted to say, first, thanks to those who created this page about OPG, which is a useful information resource for users of OPG's services.

We also wanted to suggest some possible updates. We noticed, first, that the page makes reference only to OPG's role in supervising management of people's financial affairs. That seems to be a reference to enduring powers of attorney, which did relate solely to management of financial affairs but which were superseded by lasting powers of attorney (LPAs) in 2007. LPAs give someone powers to manage another person's financial affairs AND their health and welfare. Deputyship orders, which OPG also supervises, similarly cover finances and health and welfare.

Wording along the following lines might serve as an update here:

The Office of the Public Guardian (OPG) in England and Wales is a government body that, under the Mental Capacity Act 2005, protects people who lack mental capacity for making decisions about their finances and health and welfare.

It might also be useful to link to the Wikipedia page on lasting powers of attorney and to mention OPG's digital LPA service, launched in 2013, which guides prospective donors through each step of the process of creating an LPA online and is designed to help prevent common errors.

Finally, we noticed that the references at the foot of the article were from 2009 and so largely out of date.

Thanks again to any Wikipedia users who are able to make updates along these lines, which we think could be very useful to users of OPG's services.

Many thanks – SimonBOPG (talk) 11:20, 31 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]