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Katharine Hill

Author and UK Director at Care for the Family

Katharine Hill is UK Director at Care for the Family, a national charity which aims to strengthen family life and help families in difficulty.

Katharine speaks and writes widely on family issues. As an established speaker she has addressed thousands of people across the UK on marriage and parenting issues. She is the author of three books, Rules of Engagement, Keeping Faith and most recently - If You Forget Everything Else Remember This, which aims to help parents navigate their way through the primary school years. She draws on her personal and professional knowledge in writing articles for newspapers and magazines, as well as in national and local broadcast interviews.

Katharine leads on Care for the Family’s policy agenda representing the organisation at government level. She is Chair of Kids In The Middle, a policy focussed coalition of 28 national family charities and 29 agony aunts, and a board member of the International Commission on Couple and Family Relations.

Prior to joining Care for the Family in 2004 Katharine was a solicitor, specialising in family law, and for a number of years ran a Legal Advice Centre in a socially-deprived area of Bristol. Katharine has also served as a magistrate.

Katharine is married to Richard and they have four grown-up children.