ABSTRACT
In this chapter I will discuss the various normative assumption behind the 1990s community care changes. I will examine the role that assessment was intended to play in community care policy, and discuss the normative core of community care policy. I will also expand on the concept of an assessment as a civil right, intended to unlock access to the social rights of community based services and support. I will show how the citizenship framework of civil and social rights originally envisaged by Marshall (1992) can be refined and adapted to analyse the status of disabled people needing services and support from their local authority.
