The Liberal Reforms

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  • Measures the Liberals Introduced
    • Opposition
      • The Middle Class
        • Most owned small businesses. Insurance schemes meant employers had to pay for employees insurance.
        • Widows did not receive pensions.
        • Taxes would go towards paying for others pensions and workers' insurance
      • Insurance Companies
        • The state giving insurence put private companies out of business
      • Conservatives
        • Believed in Laissez-Faire
          • Idea that everyone should be left alone, to deal by themselves.
        • Was costing everyone money.
      • Workers and the Poor
        • Being made to pay money for insurance that they couldn't spare
        • Sick pay would only be enough to support selves, not family
        • Family didn't get free health care too, only the insured worker
    • The National Insurance Act
      • Health Insurance
        • Men and women in jobs earning under £160 per year HAD to join
        • Had to pay 4d out of each weeks wages.
          • Employer payed 3d
          • State added 2d
          • In return, the worker received up to 26 weeks of sick of sick pay - 10 shillings a week.
        • Those insured got free health care.
      • Unemployment benefit
        • 2.5d must be payed by worker
        • 2.5d payed for by employer
        • 1.75d by government each week
        • Worker would receive 7 shillings per week for up to 15 weeks.
          • Benefit was a small amount so people wouldn't be able to live too long on that alone. Wouldn't sit around doing nothing and would have to find new job.
            • Job centres were set up to try and reduce unemployment
            • Minimum wage also introduced to make sure no-one was left in absolute poverty
    • The Elderly and Pensions
      • A person over 70 with an income of less than £31 would get 5 shillings a week
        • Married couples would receive 5 shillings, 6d
          • Made them independant. Less of a burden
        • Had to have lived in Britain for the last 20 years.
          • Could be refused to people who had failed to work to best abilities earlier in life
      • Pensions were not new but the poor couldn't afford private pensions.
      • It was non-contributary
        • Government funded all
    • For Children
      • 1906 - An act was passed that allowed authorities to give free school meals
        • 1914 - 14 million meals served. Most for free
        • Was not compulsory
          • Only half of Britain's local authorities actually set up meals service
      • Medical Care
        • Every local education authority had to set up school medical service
          • At first this was just regular checkups
            • By 1912, treatment also provided in school clinics
      • The Children and Young Persons Act
        • In the past, insurance companies had payed parents on the death of their children..........even under suspicious circumstances
          • Children were given status as protected persons
          • Parents could now be prosectued for neglect
          • Act made it illegal to insure a child's life
        • Young offenders institutes opened so children did not need to go to same prisons as adults
  • Food
  • Made it illegal for alcohol, tobacco and fireworks to be sold to those under 16

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