AI-assisted research summary: The Public Guardian must carry out several administrative and program duties, including reporting, ethics standards, budgeting, fee guidelines, training, public awareness, and funding efforts.
Consistent with the purposes and objectives of the Public Guardianship Act and in consultation with the council, the Public Guardian shall: (1) Develop a uniform system of reporting and collecting statistical data regarding guardianships and conservatorships; (2) Develop and adopt a standard of practice and code of ethics for public guardianship and public conservatorship; (3) Prepare a biennial budget for the implementation of the act; (4) Develop guidelines for a sliding scale of fees to be charged for public guardianship and public conservatorship services; (5) Maintain, in conjunction with private and other public resources, a curricula for training sessions to be made available for successor guardians and successor conservators and private guardians and private conservators; (6) Maintain training programs available statewide to offer the training curricula for interested parties to include: (a) Helping a guardian understand his or her ward's disabilities and a conservator understand his or her fiduciary duties with respect to his or her protected person; (b) Helping a guardian encourage increased independence on the part of his or her ward, as appropriate; (c) Helping a guardian with the preparation and revision of guardianship plans and reports and a conservator with the preparation and revision of accountings; and (d) Advising a guardian or conservator on ways to secure rights, benefits, and services to which his or her ward or protected person is entitled; (7) Promote public awareness of guardianship and conservatorship, the responsibilities attached, and the need for more private guardians and private conservators; and (8) Apply for and receive funds from public and private sources for carrying out the purposes and obligations of the act. History: Laws 2014, LB920, § 9.