ABSTRACT
This failure on local authority B's part to recognise and protect disabled people's right to access an assessment was one of the more serious and obvious threats to their citizenship status. The consequences of not being able to secure access to an assessment were that disabled people had no chance of getting access to services that might increase or facilitate their social participation: in other words their access to social rights was compromised by this failure to protect their civil rights. There was no opportunity to negotiate access to services with practitioners if disabled people could not get access to the arena of negotiation in the first place.
