WELFARE STATE: POST WW 2 (1936-45) BEVERIDGE

WELFARE STATE: POST WW 2 (1936-45) BEVERIDGE

1. William Beveridge

   • Social reformer and British Economist
   • Beveridge Report 1941
     • Free NHS (main focus)
       • 1946 nhs act
     • Social Security Scheme
       • All of working age contribute National Insurance. Could receive benefits if unable to work
         • 1946 National Insurance Act
           • weekly contribution and falt rate of benefits for all
             • could claim benefits for indefinite period of time
           • failed to take into unmarried women careers who didin't make contributions
             • failed women in general
         • if unable too work and contribute could claim National Assistance
           • National Asistance Act 1946 Means tested
             • as it's means tested still carries taint of poor law and parish assistance
       • Children's Act 1948
         • child benefit, flat rate for all.
     • FAILED TO TACKEL THE STIGMA AND INEQUALITY ATTACHED TO POVERTY
   • 5 Great Evils
     • WANT, IGNORANCE, IDLENESS, DISEASE, SQUALOR
   • appointment of a minister to oversee all insurance schemes

2. Collective responsibility, A governmnet managed economy