The Welfare State
1945-51
The Liberal Reforms of 1906-1914 included;
Free School meals
School medical inspections
Old Age Pensions
Sickness Insurance
Unemployment Insurance
Minimum Wage for ‘sweated trades’
8 Hour Day for miners
Half Day off for Shop Assistants
Unity of Purpose
The country was
united in its desire to
win the war and in its
desire to win the
peace
The Beveridge report
In 1942, William Beveridge
published the Beveridge
report which highlighted the 5
Giants of;
Want
Disease
Squalor
Idleness
Ignorance
The General Election of 1945
Labour won the 1945 election with a landside
victory over the Tory party.
The country voted for a Welfare State system
that would protect them from;
The Cradle to the Grave
Want
The new Social Security
system would help
people when they were;
Unemployment
ill
Pregnant
Retired
Dead
Disease
The government set
up the National
Health Service
This promised to look
after the health of the
nation from the cradle
to the grave
Squalor
A new house building
programme, including
the building of new
towns promised to
house the nation from
the cradle to the
grave
Idleness
The Labour Government promised to create full
employment to make sure that people could look
after themselves from ‘the cradle to the grave’
Ignorance
The Labour
Government
promised to reform
the education system
so that people were
educated enough to
look after themselves
from ‘the cradle to the
grave’