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The Labour Reforms 1945-51
- Want
- 1945 Family Allowances
- For every child in school the family received 25p
(not including the first born)
- Non contributory
- Paid by general taxation
- 1946 National Insurance
(Industrial Injuries) Act
- Workers, employers and government paid 2p
insurance fund
- When injured at work given £2.25 while they
were off work
- 1946 National Insurance Act
- Everyone one in work paid 25p a week
for a national insurance stamp. The
employers and government also
conibuted
- In return they received a range of benefits
- Maternity Benefit
- Sickness Benefit
- Unemployment Benefit
- Widows' Pensions
- Old Age Pensions
- Death Grants
- 1948 National Assistance Board
- Covered those sick, disabled or
old not part of the insurance
scheme
- Squalor
- 1946 New Towns Act
- To build 12 towns (4 in Scotland - East Kilbride)
- Prefabs
- 1947 Town and Country Planning Act
- Gave local councils power to buy land for housing
- 1949 Housing Act
- Led to repair and modernization of existing homes
- Level of homelessness didn't improve and supplies ran low
- Idleness
- To introduce policies that provide full employment
- Government nationalized certain industries
- For example; took over
The Bank of England
- By 1950, 20% of the profits went
to provide welfare benefits
- Disease
- 1946 National Health Service Act
- Paid for by National
Insurance originally
- Doctors would be paid 15
shillings for every patient on
their list
- Didn't work and 90% had to be
paid from taxes
- Charges brought in for
glasses, dental treatment
(1950) and prescriptions
(1951)
- When needed
everyone received
free
- Doctors
- Dentists
- Opticians
- Medical
treatment
- Ambulance services
- Maternity services
and child welfare
services
- New modern
hospitals to built
- Increased
Life
expectancy
- Aneurin Bevan,
Health Minister
- Ignorance
- 1944 Butler Education Act
- Leaving age raised to 15
- Secondary school
introduced for everyone
- 11+ exam decided what secondary a
child would go to
- Highest 25% of score's
- Grammar Schools
- Technical Schools
- Failed exam
- Secondary Modern Schools
- Lead to bullying