The Office of the Public Guardian (OPG) reports each year with an update on their work in registering powers of attorney and in safeguarding those who have lost their mental capacity.

The OPG has been running for ten years and they report that their register now contains over 3 million powers of attorney and nearly 60,000 deputyship orders.

This is a considerable feat. This number of instruments does also potentially throw up management and supervision issues which will require careful attention over the coming years.

In their accounts for the last year 2017/18, some interesting statistics were reported. For e...