Prof Philip Alston: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Academic
- Role
- former UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights
- Quoted on
- Children's health
- Tracked press citations
- 1
- Most recently quoted
- 10 Sept 2026
“the report was "groundbreaking because it forces us to confront a neglected dimension of child rights". He said neurodivergent children had been "largely absent from global and national discourse" and the report "expands the human rights lens beyond traditional definitions of harm to include sensory environments which can inflict deep suffering".”
Where Prof Philip Alston has been quoted
- Temporary accommodation in England is ‘torture’ for neurodivergent children, report findstheguardian.com · 10 Sept 2026
Related media coverage
Recent UK press coverage of their topics — not necessarily citing them directly.
- Delay of children’s hospital would ‘impose considerable additional costs’, Minister warnsThe Irish Times
- Runners deliver joy to Oxford children's hospital during epic challengeOxford Mail
- ‘It is a necessity’: Leeds Children's Hospital campaign to protect vital seven-day play supportYorkshire Evening Post
Professors, researchers and think-tank analysts quoted on the strength of their research rather than a clinical role. 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 5 Oct 2026. See the methodology for how this page is built, or email contact@bridgeheadcommunications.com to correct anything on it.