Ms Catherine Cox:

There is also concern around the cost for family carers to go to court. They must also provide annual reports and need to know what that involves. The legislation states that if the decision-making representative is not the family carer but is appointed by the decision support services, they will be paid their costs but the family carer will not. On top of the challenges, there are also those kinds of issues that have not been clearly resolved and are causing additional stress to family carers.