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Capacity to Litigiate
As we age, our mental abilities can start to decline. It's a fact of life. But when it comes to legal matters, mental capacity is a crucial

Team Nellie
May 16, 20232 min read


Importance of a Life Expectancy Report for Statutory Wills:
A statutory will is a legally binding document that outlines the distribution of a person's assets after their passing, often under...

Kerry Slater
May 3, 20232 min read


How Do I Get a Private Mental Capacity Assessment?
Understanding the legal process for getting a private mental capacity assessment is essential. It's important to understand the legal...

Team Nellie
Apr 24, 20234 min read


Everything you need to know about continuing health care CHC funding
Introduction The NHS is famed worldwide. Partly for its underlying principle that it should be "free at the point of access". So where...

Team Nellie
Mar 24, 20237 min read


Assessing Mental Capacity: A Comprehensive Guide
What is Mental Capacity? Mental Capacity is your ability to make an autonomous decision with the Mental Capacity Act (2005) advising;...

Team Nellie
Mar 6, 202310 min read


Conveyancing and Mental Capacity
The case of a conveyancing solicitor selling a woman's property when there were doubts about the person's capacity highlighted the need...

Team Nellie
Feb 20, 20232 min read


Social Care Case Management In The UK: A Comprehensive Guide
Case management is a collaborative process involving working with clients and families, as well as professionals, to develop a plan of care.

Team Nellie
Feb 7, 20236 min read


Practice Educator
What is a Practice Educator and what do they do? When you are in a profession, you often take for granted that you know certain aspects...

Team Nellie
Sep 5, 20225 min read


Who can complete a mental capacity assessment?
Who can complete a mental capacity assessment? The assessor must be an impartial, qualified professional, such as a Doctor or Social Worker

Team Nellie
Jul 16, 20224 min read


Why Private Social Work In The UK Is Important
Private social work is a term that refers to the professional field of social work that is not conducted by government agencies or public or

Team Nellie
Jul 16, 20223 min read


Everything You Need To Know About Lasting Power of Attorney
A lasting power of attorney (POA) is a legal document used to appoint someone you trust as your agent to make decisions on your behalf...

Team Nellie
Jun 14, 20223 min read


What You Need To Know About Mental Capacity
Mental capacity is a legal term that is used to describe an individual's ability to make decisions. It is important to understand what...

Team Nellie
Jun 14, 20222 min read


Cognitive Assessments
All of our Social Workers at Nellie Supports are accredited Montreal cognitive assessors, sounds impressive, but what is it and why?

Team Nellie
Feb 15, 20223 min read


What is impression management, and how can assessments take this into account?
Impression management: This theory (Goffman, 1969) suggests that individuals are actors and will present whichever face they feel will...

Team Nellie
Feb 9, 20227 min read


Selling a property as a deputy or attorney
When someone is self-funding and placed by statutory services into a care home, they can, on occasion, fall between the gaps;

Team Nellie
Jan 25, 20223 min read


Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) – A Brief Overview
Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards are something we come across regularly within Social Work;

Team Nellie
May 17, 20216 min read


What is a retrospective capacity assessment?
We make so many decisions in everyday life, so much so we very rarely take the time to consider these decisions.

Team Nellie
May 10, 20214 min read


Essential caregivers and their rights during the Covid-19 pandemic
Firstly, what is an essential caregiver? This is a question that has been highlighted within the pandemic, with essential caregivers...

Team Nellie
May 5, 20213 min read


TOP 10 Tips when looking for a Social Care Consultant
If you are employing a Social Care Consultant to organise care then check out or top 10 tips first!

Team Nellie
Apr 18, 20214 min read


Video-Link Telehealth Assessments 1 year on
At the outset of the Covid-19 Pandemic, many capacity providers quickly decided to move all of their services to online virtual capacity...

Team Nellie
Mar 10, 20214 min read
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