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Kate Murray

Kate Murray is former editor of Inside Housing and is now a freelance journalist writing on housing and social policy for a range of national publications. Kate has reported on the housing sector for more than a decade and before that worked on a number of regional weekly and daily newspapers

June 2016

  • Female occupational therapist talking and listening to elderly man in a wheelchair; making an assessment on progress

    Guide to occupational therapy
    How occupational therapists help keep older people out of hospital

  • Race for Life Charity Run participants in Lloyd Park, Croydon, Surrey. 22 July 2012.

    Charities need to win back public trust

  • Man standing in front of blue background

    New regulator to put charities in order

  • Curitiba in Brazi

    Health in cities
    Is city living bad for your health?

May 2016

  • A man looking sad

    Have men been let down over mental health?

  • Emergency entrance at University College Hospital

    How A&E could offer round-the-clock support to mental health patients

April 2016

  • Homelessness prevention in Wales.<br>Picture by Jon Super for The Guardian Newspaper.

Pic fao Jim Hedge for Society Section.

Picture shows Society lead on homelessness prevention in Wales. 
The piece features the work by Flintshire Council to support those threatened with homelessness. 
Picture shows on the streets of Flint, Katie Clubb, right, Ashleigh Stevens of Shelter Cymru, left, and Chirsty Gorman - all of the Housing Solutions Team in Flintshire, Monday April 325, 2016. (Photo/Jon Super 07974 356-333)

    Welsh law shows that early support prevents homelessness

    Impressive results in Wales are fuelling calls for England to adopt a homelessness prevention law that obliges councils to help people in housing crisis

March 2016

  • Wendy Spencer, chief executive of the US Corporation for National and Community Service. 
Photograph by David Levene for The Guardian 
23/2/2016

    The Society interview
    Wendy Spencer: Voluntary service has helped reduce public spending

  • Drumchapel credit union

    Second thoughts
    The My Home Finance loan scheme is in trouble, but tenants still need affordable finance

    Kate Murray

January 2016

  • Christine Hodgson, Chairman of CapGemini. For Society. 

Photograph by Felix Clay

    The Society interview
    The companies working to bring youngsters in from the cold

  • Mark Drakeford, minister for health and social services in the Welsh government

    ‘In Wales social work is recognised and valued. It’s a better place to be’

December 2015

  • End Austerity Now protest

    Careers in public services
    'Mission impossible on a daily basis' – the real effect of spending cuts on social work

  • Handprint<br>A22WNB Handprint

    ‘Social workers save lives. We are not child-snatchers or do-gooders’

November 2015

  • Ashtray

    Care-givers 'missing chances to improve lives of people with dementia'

    Survey reveals gaps in public and professional knowledge about the condition

September 2015

  • Anna Dixon, head of the Centre for Ageing Better in London, on Wednesday, September 23, 2015.
Photograph: © Frantzesco Kangaris

    The Society interview
    Anna Dixon: ‘We should expect a good old age’

    The chief executive of the Centre for Ageing Better on how the UK can improve people’s experience of getting older
  • .<br>David Montague, chief executive of L & Q Housing Association. 
16-09-2015 
Photograph by Martin Godwin 
For Society

    The Society interview
    Housing association chief: ‘2.5m homes built – we’re doing a good job’

    David Montague, head of one of the biggest housing associations, defends his sector against attacks from the government
  • A scene from the 2012 London Olympic Games, opening ceremony.

    Eorkforce development
    Why David Cameron's immigration rules will worsen nurse shortages

    It takes time to train NHS nurses so in the meantime, trusts have to recruit from abroad

July 2015

  • Man using iPhone

    Ageing population
    How can politicians face up to the challenge of the ageing population?

    Guardian event hears calls for a new social movement to put demographic change on the agenda

June 2015

  • GLASGOW, UNITED KINGDOM - SEPTEMBER 30:  Two young boys play football  in a run down street with boarded up houses, September 30, 2008 in the Govan area of Glasgow, Scotland.

    Children's care homes
    Life after care: the 'tool belt' for vulnerable young women

    A tailored support package is helping girls who have been sexually exploited learn how to identify risk and when something isn’t appropriate

May 2015

  • Dean Metz

    Careers in public services
    Physiotherapy can transform the NHS and lives of older adults

    There are three million falls annually among older people, and the cost to the health service is estimated to be £2.3bn a year
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