Effectiveness Labour

Question 1

Order of importance

Answer 1

Disease 
Want 
Squalor
Idleness
Ignorance

Question 2

Disease

Answer 2

National health act 1946-48
- provided free medical assistance
Medical, dental and optical services free of charge. 90% of doctors joined, private practices remain.
/ too expensive, hospitals old and out of date.
+ people could go back to work and start earning money

Question 3

Want (1948)

Answer 3

The national assistance act
-provided benefits and resources for those not covered by the insurance act.
Provided a safety net.
/ was means tested and not sufficient as a safety test
+ n/a

Question 4

Want (1946)

Answer 4

National insurance act
-helped cover against illness, unemployment, retirement and many other burdens.
Helped workers injured or unemployed
/ wasn’t comprehensive and was expensive to run
+ those joining scheme for the first ten years didn’t receive full benefits for the first ten years.

Question 5

Despite how many years of reforms was poverty still a problem?

Answer 5

40 years

Question 6

How much of Yorks population still lived in poverty

Answer 6

Over a quarter.

Question 7

Squalor new towns act

Answer 7

14 new towns built
Built across Britain, providing clean, safe homes away from the old, overcrowded and war damaged cities.
/ soulless and often left the working class families cut off due to a lack of transport available

Question 8

Squalor (1946 and 1949)

Answer 8

The housing act
Government would aim to build 200,000 homes a year, many prefabricated which could be built on site.
labour did well considering the conditions and lack of materials.
/ materials ran out and no where near enough homes were built.
+ more than 157,000 Prefabricated homes were built.

Question 9

Idleness nationalisation

Answer 9

• the labour government took control of certain industries on purpose to help create employment. Could keep failing businesses running keeping employment.
  / very costly as many of the businesses were worn down
  + row tree noted poverty down to 2%.

Question 10

Why were social divisions created?

Ignorance

Answer 10

Only the upper and middle class could afford secondary education

Question 11

Ignorance (1948)

Answer 11

The employment and training act

• provided funding for school leavers
• helped to create a skilled work force

Question 12

Ignorance (1944)

Answer 12

The education act
- secondary education compulsory until the age if 15.
Provided meals, milk and medical services at every school.
/ working class excluded from best education and few technical schools built.
+ mainly primary schools built let rather than secondary schools, which were largely neglected.