Adult Social Care Glossary, v 0.6

The definition from the Digitising Social Care Glossary v0.0.3 is inaccurate in three respects, in that a carer's eligibility for assessment isn't contingent on:

- Them providing care for a 'substantial amount of time' - there is no minimum amount of time that they have to be providing care for (this appears to reference the definition of carer in the ASC Collections Data Dictionary, based on the Carers and Disabled Children Act 2000, which has now been repealed)
- Whether or not the person they are caring for has refused an assessment
- Whether or not the person they are caring for is receiving help from social care

The only eligibility criterion for a carer's assessment is that you have to be 'an adult who provides or intends to provide care for another adult' (Care Act 2014, S.10(3)), and you cannot provide or intend to provide said care '(a) under or by virtue of a contract, or (b) as voluntary work' (S.10(9), but see S.10(10) for exceptions).

Whilst it is true that assessments are "available to both carers and young carers", young carer assessments are managed differently from those for adult carers - see the Care and Support (Assessment) Regulations 2014, reg 4(3), and Care and Support Statutory Guidance, paras 6.69-6.73