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Hansard to 10 November 2026 · 31,281 contributions indexed · 1,439 MPs & peers
All voices01 Voice · Sector leader · Adult social care & reform
Sally Burlington: no photograph is held, so the sector leader plate is shown instead.
Sector leader
Sally Burlington
Chief executive, Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS)
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press citations on 2 topics since 18 Jan 2026 · last quoted 18 Feb 2026
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Sally Burlington: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Sector leader
- Role
- Chief executive, Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS)
- Tracked press citations
- 3
- Most recently quoted
- 18 Feb 2026
- First quoted
- 18 Jan 2026
04 The signal · where Sally Burlington 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=Rachel CackettSector leaderleader of the Coalition of Care and Support Providers in Scotland2
- 40=David PhillipsSector leaderhead of devolved and local government finance at the IFS2
- 40=Sally BurlingtonSector leaderChief executive, Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS)2
- 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
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05 On the record · press
What Sally Burlington has said
By outlet · linked articles
- communitycare.co.uk3
Where Sally Burlington has been quoted
- 01Record number of adult social workers in post, figures show - Community Carecommunitycare.co.uk · 18 Feb 2026
- 02Disabled people given added protection from care charges - Community Carecommunitycare.co.uk · 17 Feb 2026
- 03OTs report increasing demand and struggle to meet needs - Community Carecommunitycare.co.uk · 18 Jan 2026
Verbatim
“These trends are positive and likely reflect a mix of factors, including the sector finding greater stability after the disruption of the pandemic and the impact of ongoing efforts to strengthen workforce planning and reduce reliance on agency staff.”
“This is a double-edged sword as the uplift also creates new, unfunded costs for local authorities. As these costs were not built into budgets for 2026–27, they further add to mounting financial pressures in our councils stemming from more people needing care and that care becoming more complex and costly.”
“Our members tell us that occupational therapy services who are administering the grant still face multiple challenges such as increasing demand, lengthy administration processes including unnecessarily lengthy paperwork, restrictions on what the money can be spent on, and limits to how much can be spent per person meaning local authorities can't support people quickly enough with this grant.”
Related media coverage
Recent UK press coverage of their topics, not necessarily citing them directly.
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- Aimee Eastment | Nursing Timesnursingtimes.net
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.