Beveridge Report

Question 1

When was the beveridge report

Answer 1

1942

Question 2

What did the report aim to do?

Answer 2

Provide a minimum standard of living for all, to create a system from the ‘cradle to the grace’.

Question 3

What were its 3 basic assumptions?

Answer 3

• the provision of a NHS
• maintenance of full employment
• system of family allowances

Question 4

How many copies did it sell

Answer 4

369,000

Question 5

What were the 5 giants

Answer 5

Want
Ignorance
Squalor
Idleness
Disease

Question 6

Impact of the beveridge report on health

Answer 6

• health care provision in Britain was inadequate
• blitz led to the creation of an emergency hospital service under which voluntary and local authority hospitals were commandeered
• nurses and doctors began to be paid by the government t
• minister of health in 1941, Brown, promised an NHS after the war as he recognised the need for one
• medical planning commission was created in 1940, produced their interim report in 1942
• recommended the NHS with salaried GP’s operating from Health centres
• In Feb 1943, the gov accepted the idea, white paper in 1944

Question 7

Ignorance

Answer 7

• butlers education act- raised the school leaving age to 15
• there was the establishment of a clear division between primary and secondary education and the creation of a ministry of education
• created a tripartite structure
• abilities were tested aged 11 and were then allocated to academic grammar schools, technical schools or secondary modern schools
• fee paying grammar schools were abolished- this was about 60% of their intake
• grammar schools got a disproportionate amount of money, attracting more academic teachers
• success- increased school leaving age, more educated, literate population= greater social mobility

Question 8

Squalor

Answer 8

• housing
• town and country planning act — 1944- gave local authorities greater powers of compulsory purchase of land
• in 1942, only 3% of land was subject to any form of development scheme
• barrow commission 1937 had recommended that the government take responsibility for the pattern of land
• blitz raised an immediate concern for housing levels
• sir john reith appointed as minister of works
• this encouraged London country council to produce their own plan