The Liberal Reforms
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- The Liberal Reforms 1906-1912
- Asquith and Lloyd George
- Peoples Budget 1909
- Constitutional crisis
- Peoples Budget 1909
- Reforms which Benefited Children
- Education Act 1906
- Free School Meals
- They were optional
- Children's Charter 1908
- Gave children rights. Parents could be prosecuted for abuse
- Special prisons for children called Borstals
- Age limit on buying alcohol and cigarrettes
- Education Act 1907
- Health Inspections
- Once you got the diagnosis, medicine was not free, so they were quite useless
- Education Act 1906
- Reforms which Benefited Workers
- Trade Boards Act 1909
- Set up Trade Unions to regulate pay and hours
- Criticised for taking away the rights of the employer
- Labour Exchange Act 1909
- Job Centres to help find work and claim benefits
- National Insurance Act 1911
- Insurance against being unemployed
- It was a very low amount
- Only covered the worker, not his family
- Trade Boards Act 1909
- Reforms which Benefited the Sick
- National Insurance Act 1911
- Provided money for maternity leave
- Provided insurance against sickness
- National Insurance Act 1911
- Reforms which Benefited the Elderly
- Old Age Pensions 1908
- Only paid to those classed as deserving (not lazy)
- Kept deliberately low as to not replace savings
- Old Age Pensions 1908
- Asquith and Lloyd George
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