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Hansard to 12 November 2026 · 31,484 contributions indexed · 1,439 MPs & peers
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Barbara Thorn: no photograph is held, so the sector leader plate is shown instead.
Sector leader
Barbara Thorn
Senior trustee, Ipswich Mencap
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Quoted in the press, across 1 topic since 25 Nov 2025
02 Quoted on · 1 of 29 topics
Barbara Thorn: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Sector leader
- Role
- Senior trustee, Ipswich Mencap
- Quoted on
- Learning disability & autism
- Press coverage
- Quoted in the press
- Most recently quoted
- 25 Nov 2025
04 On the record · press
What Barbara Thorn has said
By outlet · bar length shows relative volume
- bbc.com
Where Barbara Thorn has been quoted
- Respite care service in Ipswich to close after 35 yearsbbc.com · 25 Nov 2025
How we found the articles that name Barbara Thorn: we searched news for these terms.
- learning disability
- autism
- autistic
- SEND
- EHCP
- special educational needs
- ADHD
- Down's syndrome
Also searched with “learning disability” in each of 8 national papers, and in the Guardian by editor tag, and in trade press by category. Every term for Learning disability & autism
Verbatim
“It is very sad Leading Lives is ending its lease on Burgess House.”
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Chief executives, directors and spokespeople of trade bodies, representative associations and charities speaking for the sector. Citations are counted by an automated scan of UK press coverage and may be incomplete. Roles, biographies and contact details are researched and human-reviewed before they appear here; anything not yet reviewed is simply absent rather than shown unverified. This profile was last updated on 12 Nov 2026. See the methodology for how this page is built, or email contact@bridgeheadcommunications.com to correct anything on it.