Anna Bird: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Sector leader
- Role
- Chief executive, Contact, the charity for families with disabled children
- Quoted on
- Learning disability & autism, Adult social care & reform
- Tracked press citations
- 2
- Most recently quoted
- 8 Sept 2026
- First quoted
- 27 Aug 2026
“largely the system is working but it's not working for the group of children aged 16-19, where the service is being pulled because of financial constraints on councils”
What Anna Bird has said
“Parent carers need timely access to support in the home, short breaks and services that recognise and respond to their own needs as well as those of their disabled child. Most importantly, families need support early – before exhaustion becomes a crisis.”
Chief executive, Contact, the charity for families with disabled children · Adult social care & reform · 27 Aug 2026 · The care system fails to care for parents | Letters ↗
Where Anna Bird has been quoted
- MPs warned home to school transport ‘not fit for purpose’lgcplus.com · 8 Sept 2026
- The care system fails to care for parents | Letterstheguardian.com · 27 Aug 2026
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