Liberal Reforms
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- Created on: 15-02-14 16:59
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- LIBERAL REFORMS
- Elderly
- The Pensions Act 1908
- Everyone over 70 was eligible
- One person - 5s/week
- Married couple - 7s 5d/week (later 10s/week)
- Effectivness
- People over 70 earning less than £21/week
- British citizens living there for the last 20 years and hadn't been in jail in the last 10
- Too much furniture = less money
- Around half a million people qualified
- The Pensions Act 1908
- Children
- Free School Meals 1906
- Paid by local councils
- Free Medical Checks 1907
- The Childrens Act 1908
- Children became 'protected persons' and parents could be prosecuted for bad treatment
- Social workers introduced
- Childrens homes were registered and inspected
- Juvenile courts and borstals for U14's
- U14's not allowed in pubs
- U16's not allowed cigarettes
- School Clinics 1912
- Free medical treatment
- Effectiveness
- Responsibilty was down to local councils
- Although not forced, most set up school clinics with some free treatment by 1914
- Free School Meals 1906
- Sick and Unemployed
- The Labour Exchange Act 1901
- Government set up a national string of job centres
- The National Insurance Act 1911
- Aimed to prevent poverty from illness
- Workers could pay in money and draw it out when unable to work
- All manual workers and people in low-paid white-collar jobs had to join
- Paid 4d for insurance stamps, which were stuck to a card and employers and government paid 3d per worker
- Free medical treatment and maternity care
- 10s for first 13 weeks and 5s for next 13 weeks in any one year
- The National Insurance Act 1912 (part II)
- Initially opened to seasonal jobs and mainly men
- Workers, employers and government paid 2d/weel for insurance stamps
- When enemployed, workers got 7s 6d/week for up to 15 weeks a year
- Effectiveness
- Only availiable for people earning less than £160/yr and who made contributions
- Didn't cover health insurance
- Covered around 2.25 million people - mainly men
- Restricted to trades where seaonal unemployment was common - eg building, shipping and engineering
- The Labour Exchange Act 1901
- Elderly
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