John Edwards: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Sector leader
- Role
- Information Commissioner
- Quoted on
- Adult social care & reform
- Tracked press citations
- 1
- Most recently quoted
- 27 Aug 2026
“For people in care, these files are an important part of understanding their personhood and their development. It's restoring to them the insights into how they have become who they are. But there's a lack of compassion. Local authorities are stretched and the humanity can disappear. But this is a product of really bad record-keeping systems that have not been upgraded over generations.”
Where John Edwards has been quoted
- ICO promises legal action over ‘traumatic’ UK care-record accesstheguardian.com · 27 Aug 2026
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