Family Care Payment /Gratuitous Care reports from Bush & Co recognise the essential informal care provided by family members. These reports outline an individual’s care needs and provide up to date family care rates and commercial alternatives where appropriate.
These reports are essential to Deputies requiring an impartial review of an individual’s care needs, whilst supporting transparency and accountability in the disbursement of funds.
These reports are designed in line with the Public Guardians position on Family Care.
Our Expertise
Our care experts have extensive experience evaluating and calculating appropriate compensatory payments for families undertaking care duties that would otherwise require professional services.
Our care experts conduct evaluations to:
- Assess the level of functional impairment or disabilities resulting from the individual’s injuries or condition
- Determine what care, assistance, and support is required
- Establish how care should be delivered in the individuals best interests and who is best placed to deliver this support.
Using rates recognised by the Office of the Public Guardian our experts can quantify the gratuitous care provide or where appropriate evaluate the support based on professional market rates.
Bush & Co Expert Witnesses
Bush & Co provides authoritative and impartial expert witness services across a wide range of legal matters, leveraging the specialised expertise to:
- Apply extensive clinical experience from diverse clinical and healthcare disciplines and specialisations to the delivery of authoritative and insightful analyses.
- Maintain a firm commitment to impartiality and independence to ensure deputies can rely on receiving unbiased, evidence-based opinions and assessments.
- Perform thorough examinations of all relevant records, documentation, and evidence to produce reports that demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of case facts and nuances.
- Be attentive and responsive to each client's unique needs, providing clear communication and striving to make complex issues understandable.
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