Creation of a welfare state
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- Created on: 28-05-17 17:21
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- Creation of a welfare state
- The Family Allowances Act (1945)
- Significance: c. child benefits (25p/week/child) payable to the mother
- The National Insurance Act (1946)
- Significance: 25p/week charge to all workers
- *abolished means-testing*
- Not progressive - poor paid much more
- Unemployment/sickness benefits universally avaliable
- State pension
- Bevan anticipated phasing out over time, but Griffiths thought non-contributors should be entitled
- Significance: 25p/week charge to all workers
- The Industrial Industries Act (1946)
- Significance: right to compensation for accidents/ injuries in the workplace paid by the NI fund (esp. mining)
- The National Assistance Act (1948)
- Significance: welfare to those not covered by NI (unemployed) - homeless/ disabled/ unmarried mothers/ poor pensioners
- Abolished PACs for a NAB
- Responsabilities to local authorities
- The extent of consensus of welfare provision in the period 1945-64
- Conservatives
- Harold Wilson advocated Conservative welfarism
- Wrote The Middle Way (1938) - advocating government regulation of private enterprise/ welfare
- Macmillan (57-61) feared poverty of 1930s
- U/M-C responsibility to care
- Knew cuts were unpopular/unelectable (popular)
- Radicals like Enoch Powell were a minority
- Harold Wilson advocated Conservative welfarism
- Conservatives
- The NHS
- The Family Allowances Act (1945)
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