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Below is the UK Governments own definition of a Worker. Unpaid Carers are not classified as "workers" under UK law, but their private and public sector counterparts are. People who do exactly the same job.
An employment contract is where your employer specifies you have to do something to get something. The UK Government specifies that to get carers allowance you must act in the role of a carer for a MINIMUM OF 35 HOURS PER WEEK. Sounds like conditions of work to me??
The difference here is that the UK Government skirts fair remuneration by simply not classifying carers as workers. Despite the fact that the UK Government derives a benefit from their labour equivalent to the combined budgets of the entire NHS in all 4 UK countries.
Unpaid carers can't send someone else to do their job, ergo that condition is also me. They also have to turn up to work even when they don't want to.
The conditions of carers allowance are that you can only be paid it as long as you perform the role of a carer, ergo the UK Government specifies there must be work for you. If carers allowance is dependant on work, then the same must be true in the opposite direction.
In other words, their contract as a carer only lasts as long as they are performing their role as a carer. Therefore they only perform the role as carer, as long as the work exists. Seems like another term of work to me.
and finally, they clearly aren't working as self-employed or as a limited company. And I would now dare any person reading this thread to tell me what the difference between the role of an unpaid carer is compared to the public and private sector equivalents.
The difference is simple. The UK Government refuses to give carers the status of Workers and so, as a result, they are denied ALL OF THE FOLLOWING:
