Asserted age assurance

What the clause says

Asserted assurance is the age a person claims, with no component used to validate it. It is a low indicator of confidence, though the claimed age is not necessarily wrong.

What it supplies to a comparison

Asserted assurance is the floor of the scale. It is useful as a control in a comparison, not as a candidate for a decision that needs real assurance.

Evidence to keep

• The self-declaration step and the fields it captures.
• The reason the decision accepts or rejects an asserted result.

What the evidence looks like

For 6.1.1, the first artefact is The self-declaration step and the fields it captures.. The second is The reason the decision accepts or rejects an asserted result.. If 6.1.1 has no first artefact, the practice is unproven at 6.1.1, and the report should record the absence rather than infer the practice from a policy.

Questions for the provider

1. Is an asserted age doing any real work in this decision?
2. What would the cost of a wrong answer be, and who bears it?

How it connects to the draft

Asserted age assurance belongs to 6 indicators of confidence, and it gives the analysis one fixed point: Asserted assurance is the floor of the scale. It is useful as a control in a comparison, not as a candidate for a decision that needs real assurance. A comparison that cannot place a result against 6.1.1 is measuring something the framework has not defined, and the report should say so.

In the register, 6.1.1 is read beside the unit that tests it, and where it sets an objective rather than a number, that unit turns the objective into a question and an evidence artefact.