Salisbury's Domestic Policies

Local Government Act (1888)

• Created county councils
• Set up the London County Council
• New rural voters a degree of control over local affairs

Technical Institution Act (1888)

• Reforms in education introduced
• Board of Education established
• Fees for children attending board schools were abolished
• Responsibility given to local councils for technical education
• Government grants were given to universities for the first time

The Housing of the Working Class Act (1890)

• Allowed local councils to identify uninhabitable dwellings
• Replace them with council-built houses

Factory Act (1890)

• End to children under the age of 11 working
• Set a maximum 12 hour day for women

Allotment Act and Smallholdings Act (1892)

• Set up agricultural labourers with their own plot of land
• Achieved little
• Indicated government awareness of high rural unemployment

Land Act (1887)

• Demonstrate to Irish tenants the government's desire to address their main grievence
• Improved on Gladstone's Act
• Allowed for further rent review

Balfour's Crimes Act (1887)

• Gave police and magistrates special powers to deal with trouble makers