Liberal Reforms
- Created by: Littlelozza
- Created on: 24-03-15 19:53
View mindmap
- LIBERAL REFORMS
- Reforms for children
- Children charter act
- This meant children were not exposed from things that could do them harm.
- 1908
- Free school meals
- This meant children were able to have at least one proper meal a day
- 1906
- Regular Medical checks
- This enforced children to have basic media attention however if Illness was discovered they could do very little about it.
- 1907
- School clinics
- Allowed treatment to take place in schools
- 1912
- Children charter act
- Reforms for the Elderly
- Old age pensions
- Gave elderly a weekly allowance to ensure financial stability
- Many people could be refused if they had never worked or earned over a certain amount of money a year
- Had to be 70 or over....few people lived over this age
- Old age pensions
- WHY?
- The liberal's worried about the Labour party's increased popularity
- Many men who enlisted to support in the Boer war were refused due to being to unfit.
- Rowntree and other social reformers at the were investigating the causes and effect of poverty in society to emphasise how much of a problem it had become
- Germany had become a major industrial competitor and had already enforced reforms, Britian wanted to carry on enforcing their economic superiority
- Lloyd George wanted to support lover social classes
- Insurance
- Health insurance gave workers free medical care and sick pay
- National Insurance - gave 10% of the population cover if they lost their job
- Unemployment insurance gave people who had registered at the labour exchange benefit money until they could find another job.
- THE LABOUR EXCHANGE
- Unemployed workers would register with the Labour exchange
- Local employers would notify the Exchange if there were any vacancies so they could inform the unemployed.
- THE LABOUR EXCHANGE
- Reforms for children
Comments
No comments have yet been made