03 Profile
Vital Signsby Bridgehead
Hansard to 10 November 2026 · 31,281 contributions indexed · 1,439 MPs & peers
All voices01 Voice · Sector leader · Adult social care & reform
Martin Walker: no photograph is held, so the sector leader plate is shown instead.
Sector leader
Martin Walker
Head of Practice Improvement, Self-directed Support, Think Local Act Personal (TLAP)
2
0
Oct 2026Nov 2026to date
2
press citations on 1 topic since 13 Oct 2026 · last quoted 13 Oct 2026
02 Quoted on · 1 of 29 topics
Martin Walker: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Sector leader
- Role
- Head of Practice Improvement, Self-directed Support, Think Local Act Personal (TLAP)
- Quoted on
- Adult social care & reform
- Tracked press citations
- 2
- Most recently quoted
- 13 Oct 2026
04 The signal · where Martin Walker sits on adult social care & reform
Ranked 40= of 100 voices quoted in the press on adult social care & reform, level with 26 others on 2 citations.
Ranked on press citations on this topic only, not across all topics. Joint positions share a rank.
- 1
Professor Martin Green OBESector leaderChief Executive, Care England38 - 2
Vic RaynerSector leaderChief Executive Officer, National Care Forum21 - 3
Phil HolmesSector leaderPresident of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS); Executive Director of Adults, Wellbeing and Culture, City of Doncaster Council18 - 40=Zena AldridgeClinicianSenior advisor for adult social care nursing, NHS England; independent dementia nurse consultant and Queen's Nurse2
- 40=Kevin GroombridgeSector leaderChief executive, Care Inspections UK2
- 40=Martin WalkerSector leaderHead of Practice Improvement, Self-directed Support, Think Local Act Personal (TLAP)2
- 40=Jonathan CribbSector leaderDeputy Director at the Institute for Fiscal Studies2
- 40=Sebastian ReesSector leaderprincipal research fellow at the Institute For Public Policy Research2
Showing the leaders and the ranks around 40=, of 100 voices · See every voice on the topic →
05 On the record · press
What Martin Walker has said
By outlet · linked articles
- caremanagementmatters.co.uk1
- thiis.co.uk1
Where Martin Walker has been quoted
- 01Charity reveals wide local variations in access to long-term carecaremanagementmatters.co.uk · 13 Oct 2026
- 02SCIE supports King’s Fund recommendations for a fairer social care system in Englandthiis.co.uk · 13 Oct 2026
Verbatim
“People shouldn't have to fit into whatever services exist in their area. They should be able to decide how they live, who supports them and how their care is arranged.”
“People shouldn't have to fit into whatever services exist in their area. They should be able to decide how they live, who supports them, and how their care is arranged.”
Related media coverage
Recent UK press coverage of their topics, not necessarily citing them directly.
- National Care Service must address 'injustice' faced by self-funders - Care Management Matterscaremanagementmatters.co.uk
- Latest news articles on social care | Nursing Timesnursingtimes.net
- Moving from care to autonomyDisability Rights UK
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 10 Nov 2026. See the methodology for how this page is built, or email contact@bridgeheadcommunications.com to correct anything on it.