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Hansard to 12 November 2026 · 31,484 contributions indexed · 1,439 MPs & peers
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Vanessa Abbess: no photograph is held, so the sector leader plate is shown instead.
Sector leader
Vanessa Abbess
Bereaved mother; her son Joe, 17, died in a rip current off Bournemouth beach in 2023
Oct 2026Nov 2026to date
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Quoted in the press, across 1 topic since 25 Oct 2026
02 Quoted on · 1 of 29 topics
Vanessa Abbess: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Sector leader
- Role
- Bereaved mother; her son Joe, 17, died in a rip current off Bournemouth beach in 2023
- Quoted on
- Public health & prevention
- Press coverage
- Quoted in the press
- Most recently quoted
- 25 Oct 2026
04 On the record · press
What Vanessa Abbess has said
By outlet · bar length shows relative volume
- mirror.co.uk
Where Vanessa Abbess has been quoted
- Nearly 1000 public swimming pools closed since 2010 amid record summer drowningsmirror.co.uk · 25 Oct 2026
How we found the articles that name Vanessa Abbess: we searched news for these terms.
- public health
- preventative healthcare
- prevention agenda
- health prevention
- obesity strategy
- childhood obesity
- smoking cessation
- smoke-free
Also searched with “public health” in each of 8 national papers, and in the Guardian by editor tag, and in trade press by category. Every term for Public health & prevention
Verbatim
“Drowning is preventable and needs to be treated by the government as a public health emergency. Anyone can drown, but no one should.”
Related media coverage
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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.