Adult Social Care Glossary, v 0.6

This field is to distinguish between event rows that relate to service users and carers.

When a person enters the social care system, they may be assigned as a carer or service user based on the request reason and/or the assessment type, prior to any service provision being recorded.

The CLD collection includes adult service users aged 18 or over. People who make a request for support, or who have an assessment of their care needs, should also be recorded as a service user within CLD.

Carers includes adults and young carers aged under 18. Carers should only be included if they provide unpaid care for an adult who is aged 18 or over. Carers who are caring solely for children or young people aged under 18 should not be included in CLD.

Like SALT, paid care workers funded by direct payments, provided as part of a commissioned service or in a residential and nursing care setting are not in the scope of the collection and should not be included.
If a service user is also a carer, they may have separate eve
nts in CLD as a service user and as a carer.

‘Unknown’ should be used where the client type has not been recorded.

‘Carer known by association’ should be used in cases when support for the carer has been provided and recorded solely in the cared-for person’s records during the reporting period. This is the only instance where a row of data will show person details and carer information, but not contain any event details.

‘Carer known by association’ rows of data are required when carer support is recorded solely in service user rows, e.g.
• the carer has been involved in an assessment with the person cared for and/or
• support is arranged for the cared-for person for the benefit of the carer e.g., respite care, and only appears on the cared-for person’s records

Carer details should not be provided if they have not been actively involved in care assessment or provision, since they are unlikely to have given consent to share their details.

A worked example of how this data should be submitted is given in Annex D.

• Service User
• Carer
• Carer known by association
• Unknown

Data Type: Defined list.