| Vorderseite | Social Welfare in the UK |
|---|---|
| Rückseite | Up to 1900 social help was an individual problem -> family, freinds, neighbours, churches, charities enormous poverty etc. due to the industralisation 1906-14 Lloyd George copied the German Welfare Model 1906 free school meals 1908 Old Age Pensions Act 1911 National Insurance Act -> free medical treatment and doles WWI -> demand for social reform grew 1942 The Beveridge Report (founded welfare state, by the economist William Beveridge) -> five "Giant Evils": squalor, ignorance, want, idleness, and disease Health Care Policy "From cradle to grave" 1945 Family Allowances Act 1948 National Assistance Act -> social safety net 1948 National Health Services Goals: social justice, high living standard, government is responsible for its citizens Criticism: too expensive, leads towards an irresponsible attitude allegedly, wrong assumptions about expenditure by the public |
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