Adult Social Care Glossary, v 0.6

Person level data is required for carers in direct contact with the local authority during the reporting period – for a request, an assessment, a service or a review. This can include direct contact with a commissioned provider.

This section of the specification is designed to collect additional information specifically relating to carers and to enable linkage to records for cared-for people in the submitted data.

These fields should be completed for event rows that have the Client Type ‘Carer’ or ‘Carer known by association’.

Carers who are not the direct subject of events still need to be included in the dataset if the carer is linked to a client and has been actively involved in the assessment and care management process for the person they care for. This is the only instance where a row of data will show the person details for the carer and the linked service user Person IDs only, but not contain any event details. This record will be used for linking purposes only using Client type of ‘Carer known by association’. Worked examples of how to use ‘Carer known by association’ are provided in Annex D.

Carer-specific events should represent the direct interactions of local authorities and carers in respect of their needs as a carer i.e. a carers request, a carers assessment, carer review or ‘carer support: direct to carer’

If an adult carer is also interacting with the local authority as a service user, and are aged 18 or older, events related to their needs as a service user should be recorded using Client Type ‘service user’.

Where either a carer is receiving local authority support, but the cared for person is not, the details of the latter should not be shared, since there is no purpose / consent to hold and share this data.