Kate Hamblin: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Academic
- Role
- professor of social policy at the University of Sheffield and director of the centre for care
- Quoted on
- Adult social care & reform
- Tracked press citations
- 3
- Most recently quoted
- 30 Sept 2026
- First quoted
- 29 Sept 2026
“We cannot build a national care service around equity if other systems people rely on, including housing and benefits, are working against that ambition.”
What Kate Hamblin has said
“Social care is essential civic infrastructure: it enables people to live the lives they value and sustains families and communities. Yet gaps, complexity and local variation too often shift costs and responsibility onto people who draw on care and unpaid carers, deepening existing inequalities.”
professor of social policy at the University of Sheffield and director of the centre for care · Adult social care & reform · 29 Sept 2026 · SCIE and Centre for Care to co-host Labour Party Conference panel on care equity ↗
“Panel member examining inequities in social care and how evidence can support fairer policy, practice and reform”
professor of social policy at the University of Sheffield and director of the Centre for Care · Adult social care & reform · 29 Sept 2026 · SCIE and Centre for Care to co-host Labour Party Conference panel on care equity ↗
Where Kate Hamblin has been quoted
- Equity must be at ‘heart’ of government’s social care reform plannursingtimes.net · 30 Sept 2026
- SCIE and Centre for Care to co-host Labour Party Conference panel on care equitycarehomeprofessional.com · 29 Sept 2026
- SCIE and Centre for Care to co-host Labour Party Conference panel on care equitycaring-times.co.uk · 29 Sept 2026
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