Eligibility and assessment
- Carers over 18
- Carers under 18
- How to request an assessment
- What is a carer's assessment?
- What can you expect from a carer's assessment?
- Confidentiality
Carers over 18
If you are a carer over the age of 18 years and you care for an adult aged 18 years or over, you may be eligible for a carer's assessment if you:
- are in regular contact with the vulnerable person (for example, four hours per day) and carry out a range of caring activities; and
- supervise or take responsibility for a vulnerable adult, without which the cared for person would be at risk of harm or neglect; and
- anticipate providing care for a long period of time or providing intensive care for someone with a chronic illness; or
- are experiencing difficulty in continuing to provide care or their caring role is impacting negatively on their health.
Carers under 18
If you are a young carer under the age of 18 years, find out more on our Young Carers page:
How to request an assessment
If you would like your needs assessed, tell the care manager or care co-ordinator of the person for whom you provide care. They will arrange an assessment for you. If you are not in contact with a care manager or care co-ordinator, contact the Carers Development Manager, telephone 020 8489 3967, who will refer you to the appropriate team.
Alternatively, you can complete the self-assessment form on the following page:
The Carers Development Manager can also provide general information and advice about services available to carers in Haringey.
|back to topWhat is a carer's assessment?
If you care for someone who is disabled or ill and if caring has a major impact in your life, then a carer's assessment could help you.
You can request a carer's assessment from adult services. The local authority cannot refuse to carry out an assessment.
The assessment will look at things like:
- what kind of help and support the person you are caring for needs
- what kinds of things you do in caring for them
- how much time you spend caring and who else cares for the person as well
- whether you live with the person you care for or not
- your views, preferences and the amount of support you already have
- your health and wellbeing.
What can you expect from a carer's assessment?
You will:
- feel you have been listened to
- have written confirmation of your assessed needs as a carer and what support can be provided to meet these
- know what is going to happen next
- know how to make contact with those able to provide you with support
- know how to get any follow up assistance
- have information about specialist carers' organisations if you need this.
Translated versions of our unpaid carers leaflet can be found in the Attached Files section of this page. If you require the information in another language, we would be happy to arrange it.
Confidentiality
Where necessary, for planning and providing services, the information you give may be shared with health services (for example, your GP), social care, housing and other organisations contracted to provide care services. The information you give will be kept in confidence under the terms of the Data Protection Act 1998.
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carers assessment-albanian.pdf  | 52K | |
| carers assessment-bengali.pdf | 98K | |
| carers assessment-french.pdf | 51K | |
| carers assessment-gujarati.pdf | 77K | |
| carers assessment-hindi.pdf | 182K | |
| carers assessment-kurdish.pdf | 63K | |
| carers assessment-punjabi.pdf | 64K | |
| carers assessment-somali.pdf | 64K | |
| carers assessment-turkish.pdf | 78K | |
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Update MePage Last Updated: 8 July 2008
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