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The Liberal Reforms
- 1901 - Seebohm Rowntree found that there
were people that didn't eat. They were most
vulnerable at three points
- Children
- 1906
- Local authorities were
allowed to provide free
school meals
- Local authorities were
allowed to provide free
school meals
- 1908
- Children and Young
Persons Act introduced a
set of regulations later
known as the Children's
Charter
- Imposed severe punishments for
neglecting or treating children cruelly
- Imposed severe punishments for
neglecting or treating children cruelly
- Made illegal to sell
cigarettes to children or
send them out begging
- Separate juvenile courts were set up -
sent children to borstals, not prisons
- Children and Young
Persons Act introduced a
set of regulations later
known as the Children's
Charter
- 1906
- Old Age
- 1908
- Pensions were introduced for the
over 70's - gave them 5s a week,
or 7s 6d to a married couple
- Old people cried
as they collected
their pensions, and
said: 'God bless
Lloyd George'
- Pensions were introduced for the
over 70's - gave them 5s a week,
or 7s 6d to a married couple
- 1908
- Workers
- 1909
- Labour exchanges were set up to
help unemployed people find work
- Labour exchanges were set up to
help unemployed people find work
- 1911
- National Insurance Act passed
- Part 1
- Gave people the
right to free medical
treatment, and sick
pay of 10s a week
for 26 weeks in
return for a payment
o 4d a week
- Gave people the
right to free medical
treatment, and sick
pay of 10s a week
for 26 weeks in
return for a payment
o 4d a week
- Part 2
- Gave people right to
unemployment pay (dole) of 7s
6d a week for 15 weeks in
return for a payment of 2 1/2 d a
week
- Gave people right to
unemployment pay (dole) of 7s
6d a week for 15 weeks in
return for a payment of 2 1/2 d a
week
- Part 1
- National Insurance Act passed
- 1909
- Children
- Reforms and reasons
- Reasons
- Seebohm Rowntree's study of York - 1901 - 28% population did not have the minimum to
live on at some time of their life.
- Boer War - When Britain went to war (1899) 2/3rd's unfit to fight
- Germany - good system of state welfare for workers was passing Britain as a great industrial power
- Strikes - 1910-12 - growth of trade unionism - politicians feared might rebel
- Labour Party growing stronger, attacking working-class voters demands for welfare reform
- 1910 - Liberal Party not get majority seat (House of Commons) so - coalition
with the 42 Labour Party MP's who'd been elected
- Many government politicians, especially Lloyd George, want to 'wage war' on poverty
- Seebohm Rowntree's study of York - 1901 - 28% population did not have the minimum to
live on at some time of their life.
- Reforms
- 1906 - the Trades Disputes Act ruled that unions were
not liable for damages because of strikes
- 1906 - the Workers Compensation Act
granted compensation for injury at work
- 1907 - school medical inspections
- A Merchant Shipping Act improved conditions for sailors
- 1908 - eight-hour day for miners
- 1910 - half-day a week off for shop workers
- 1911 onwards - MP's were paid. Gave working men opportunity to stand for election
- 1906 - the Trades Disputes Act ruled that unions were
not liable for damages because of strikes
- Reasons
- Facts
- Free school meal
- By 1914, 150,00 children were getting one good meal a day
- By 1914, 150,00 children were getting one good meal a day
- Free medical treatment
- Free school meal
- Lloyd George
- Parliament Act 1911
- He designed
the National
Insurance Act
and Old Age
Pensions
scheme.
- Parliament Act 1911
- 1890
- Industrial Revolution
- Factories and towns were developed at an unprecedented rate
- Factories and towns were developed at an unprecedented rate
- Industrial Revolution
- Social reform = changes to help people
- 1911
- National vote
- National vote
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