Ms Catherine Cox:

It provides information and support to people. There are three different levels of decision-making. One can be a decision-making representative, which requires somebody to go to court, but there are two others - a co-decision-maker and a decision-maker assistant. If a family becomes one of those two, then the Decision Support Service holds those agreements and monitors them, as Ms Duffy said. It provides a support with regard to how one would go about creating those agreements. It will advise families, and do a number of awareness sessions. However, it is solely there to support the implementation of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act.