Poor Law Commission
- Created by: Abigail
- Created on: 28-02-14 17:41
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POOR LAW COMMISSION:
- this was established to look over the Poor Law Amendment Act
- there were three commissioners;
- Thomas Frankland Lewis
- George Nicholls
- John Shaw Lefevre - they were based in Somerset House, London
- Edwin Chadwich, who was behind the report into Poor Laws, hoped to become a commissioner but was instead made secretary to the commission
- he was bitter about this so he therefore clashed frequently with the commissioners
- 9 assisstant commissioners' jobs created - their job was to make sure the decisions made in Somerset House were implemented locally
POWER THE COMMISSION HAVE:
- they were independent part of Parliament which both a strong and weak link
- they had no spokesperson in Parliament to defend any criticism so people's assumptions were never denied
- in the press, books and journals, they were slammed
- they did however have a poweful constitutional position
- the commissioners could draw up regulations and monitor their implementation
- they had a good range of negative powers to use
- they could refuse certain types of…
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