Liberal Reforms
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- The Liberal Reforms
- 1901-Seebohm Rowntree & Liberal Govt, study on poverty
- Children
- 1906 -Free School Meals
- 1908 Children and Young Persons Act.
- punishments for neglecting or treating children cruelly.
- Old Age
- 1908 PensionAct were introduced for the over 70's
- 5s (shillings) a week, or 7s 6d to a married couple.
- Sick or Unemployed
- 1909 labour exchanges were set up to help unemployed people find work.
- 1911/1912 National Insurance Act
- Part 1: right to free medical treatment, sick pay of 10s a week for 26 weeks in return for a payment of 4d a week
- Part 2: right to unemployment pay (dole) of 7s 6d a week for 15 weeks in return for a payment of 2½d a week.
- Found 28% of the population didn't have the minimum.
- Children
- 1906 - Lloyd George (Chancellor of the Exchequer) introduced reforms to help these 3 groups
- 1909 - introduced a budget which taxed the rich and landowners, to help with the reforms
- 1899 The Boer War - people rejected from the army, for being too unfit (poor diet)
- Liberals wanted to appeal to the working class so they don't vote Labour.
- 1901-Seebohm Rowntree & Liberal Govt, study on poverty
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