overview Flashcards
1945
overwhelming election victory for labour
- Family Allowances Act
1946
- National Insurance Act
- Industrial Injuries Act
- Nationalisation Programme begun
1947
- Government under attack to develop independent nuclear deterrent
- Independence of India
1948
- National Health Service begun
- National Assistance Act
- Britain began to receive substantial marshall aid
1949
- nationalisation of iron and steel
1950
- start of korean war
- election reduced Labour majority- 5
what was the Beveridge report
a blueprint for social reconstruction, created for whether Britain needed post war reconstruction
Social welfare provision
Squalor- to be ended by slum clearance and rehousing
Want- to be ended by National Insurance
Ignorance- to be ended by an effective education system
Disease- to be ended by comprehensive health system (NHS)
Idleness- to be ended by full employment
the national insurance act
created a system of universal and compulsory government- employer- employee contributions to provide against unemployment, sickness, maternity expenses, widowhood and retirement
(WRUMS)
the national assistance act
complemented National insurance by establishing N.A Boards to deal directly with cases of hardship and poverty
industries Injuries Act
provides cover for workplace accidents
The national health services act
NHS funded through taxes and broke class divide as everyone was entitled to health care.
Education Act 1944
comprehensive and grammer (11+)
Family Allowances Act (1945)
weekly payment of five shillings for every child after the first
was this a revolution?
it was not a traditional revolution but it was a social revolution as it built on the foundations.
- it was constructive not destructive
