If you are an adult providing unpaid essential care for another adult, you have the legal right to have a Care Act Carers Assessment.
The Carers Assessment will have to be undertaken in the borough where your cared for person lives.
The Carers Assessment focuses on your caring role and the impact that it is having on different areas of your life namely:
You may be informed about services and provided with information relevant to your situation to reduce any negative impacts that your caring role might be having on other areas of your life.
You may be entitled to a Carers Direct Payment dependant on the outcome of your assessment and your needs as a carer.
Enfield Carers Centre would recommend that all carers take the opportunity to have an assessment. It may not always result in drastic changes in the amount of support you will receive but even if the assessment concludes that you are coping well, you should be offered a review each year.
If you would like to arrange an assessment, or have any questions about the process, please give a member of our team a call on 020 8366 3677; or email: assessmentsadmin@enfieldcarers.org. We are happy to assist.
PLANNING FOR THE ASSESSMENT – be prepared
Regardless of whether you have a combined or stand-alone assessment – it’s always good to be prepared:
Following the assessment
Support Plan
If you meet the eligibility criteria as outlined in The Care Act 2014 and therefore have ‘eligible needs’, then providing you want them to, the Council must meet these needs and draw up a support plan detailing how these needs will be met.
If you’re caring for a child under 18, your carers assessment will be carried out by a social worker from Cheviots Children’s Disability Service.
Contact them on 020 8363 4047 .
You can also request a Children and Families Assessments which should consider your needs as a parent/carer as well as your child’s needs.
Any information you enter into this online form will be sent, once fully submitted, to Enfield Carers Centre, via the email address assessmentsadmin@enfieldcarers.org. This email can only be accessed by the Centre’s Assessment Team Administrator or their direct line management. The information you provide will be used to create a baseline assessment, about how your caring role impacts upon key wellbeing areas that are sometimes difficult to manage, when balancing the responsibilities of providing care.
A carers assessment is for adult carers, over the age of 18, providing support to another adult, considered to have Ordinary Residence in Enfield. Which in most cases just means that they are living in Enfield.
If, when answering questions in this form, you are asked to contact the Centre this might mean that you don’t meet the criteria to benefit from a Carers Assessment, and we would like to speak with you to see what support would be bests for you. For example, if you are a parent carer or young carer, there would be different options for support available, so we would welcome the opportunity to discuss this and assist you to access.
Once Enfield Carers Centre have received your completed form the information contained will be shared with Enfield Local Authority. As we would open a carer’s file on the confidential Social Care Database, (Eclipse), and create a Carers Assessment within this using your submitted information you have provided. This is a requirement for all Carer Assessments that are completed under Enfield Local Authority’s statutory remit, even if provided in the form of a self-assessment.
None of your information would be shared with any other 3rd party, without your permission and no actions would be taken, unless discussed and agreed with you first. The only exception would be if there could be potential harm or abuse caused to you or others if information isn’t shared/acted upon. The process is confidential, and any information provided would not be shared with the person you care for, and you both would have separate files on Eclipse, so if they asked to look at their file, this would not result in sharing any information you had submitted with them. We understand that caring can be personal and tough at times and appreciate your honest views about your caring situation and how they impact upon you.
The information you provide will allow us to evaluate how caring is impacting on you and to consider the statutory, and Centre, services that are most relevant in supporting your ongoing wellbeing.
