header-logo header-logo

12 June 2023
Categories: Legal News , Child law , Mental health
printer mail-detail

LNB NEWS: MoJ publishes parent and carer toolkit on making financial decisions for young people lacking capacity

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has published: ‘Making finance decisions for young people: parent and carer toolkit’. 

Lexis®Library update: This aims to explain the principles of decision making and the processes in place where parents or carers need to make financial decisions for young people aged 16 to 25 who lack the mental capacity to make decisions for themselves.

By the end of the toolkit, parents and carers should be able to understand:

• what lacking mental capacity means and the decision-making principles

• the changes to decision-making when a child reaches adulthood

• the relevant route to make financial decisions on behalf of a young person, including how to access a Child Trust Fund

• if the young person is under the age of 18, how to prepare to make financial decisions when they reach adulthood

Sources:

• Making finance decisions for young people: parent and carer toolkit

• Mental Capacity Act: making decisions

This content was first published by LNB News / Lexis®Library, a LexisNexis® company, on 9 June 2023 and is published with permission. Further information can be found at: www.lexisnexis.co.uk

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Carey Olsen—Patrick Ormond

Carey Olsen—Patrick Ormond

Partner joinscorporate and finance practice in British Virgin Islands

Dawson Cornwell—Naomi Angell

Dawson Cornwell—Naomi Angell

Firm strengthens children department with adoption and surrogacy expert

Penningtons Manches Cooper—Graham Green

Penningtons Manches Cooper—Graham Green

Media and technology expert joins employment team as partner in Cambridge

NEWS
Freezing orders in divorce proceedings can unexpectedly ensnare third parties and disrupt businesses. In NLJ this week, Lucy James of Trowers & Hamlins explains how these orders—dubbed a ‘nuclear weapon’—preserve assets but can extend far beyond spouses to companies and business partners 
A Court of Appeal ruling has clarified that ‘rent’ must be monetary—excluding tenants paid in labour from statutory protection. In this week's NLJ, James Naylor explains Garraway v Phillips, where a tenant worked two days a week instead of paying rent
Thousands more magistrates are to be recruited, under a major shake-up to speed up and expand the hiring process
The winners of the LexisNexis Legal Awards 2026 have now been announced, marking another outstanding celebration of excellence, innovation, and impact across the legal profession
Three men wrongly imprisoned for a combined 77 years have been released—yet received ‘not a penny’ in compensation, exposing deep flaws in the justice system. Writing in NLJ this week, Dr Jon Robins reports on Justin Plummer, Oliver Campbell and Peter Sullivan, whose convictions collapsed amid discredited forensics, ‘oppressive’ police interviews and unreliable ‘cell confessions’
back-to-top-scroll