Liberal Reforms

Liberal Reforms

Children
1. 1906 Education(provision of school meals) act
  1. problems
    1. Voluntary
      1. some councils could not afford it
      2. some councils did not believe in it
    2. socialism
2. 1907 Education (Administrative Provisions) act
  1. introduced 3x medical inspections in school career
    1. problems
      1. they identified what was wrong but not treated
3. 1908 a group of acts called the 'Children's Charter'
  1. banned children buying alcohol and cigarettes
  2. Juvenile Coarts
  3. burstals
    1. prevents falling to heavy crime
  4. abuse inspections
    1. physical, sexual, abandonment
Employed (all didn't effect enough people/workers)
1. Workman's Compensation paid when injured or compensation for loss of life or limb
2. Mines act set 8 hour working day and minimum wage
  1. problems
    1. strikes in WW1 abandoned hours and pay conditions for war effort
3. Trades Board Act sweated trades - laundry, tailor, seamstress/dressmaker, lace worker
  1. Reginal Boards set pay and conditions
  2. problems
    1. different pay and conditions in every region
Elderly
1. Old age pension act 1908
  1. kept many people out of poor/work houses
  2. collected from post office so no stigma attached
  3. helped a large number of elderly
  4. taxes paid for scheme so poor people did not have to make a contribution and push them deeper in to poverty
  5. problems
    1. had to be 70 to qualify - many did not live to this age (average age 55)
    2. rich people objected to their taxes being used for this
    3. limitations were if you had been in jail, the sanatorium, abroad for too much time then you did not qualify
    4. amounts paid were much lower than suggested by Rowntree
Sick
1. National Insurance act (part I)
  1. provided medical attention
  2. paid for 26weeks - half and half - first 13 they got full pay(10) then half (5) for the second 13 weeks
  3. maternity grant for the first time ever
  4. problems
    1. only covered the person paying stamp but not their family members
    2. only people with TB got hospitalised
    3. seasonal workers couldn't pay enough stamps
    4. contributions pushed workers further into poverty
Unemployed
1. Labour Exchanges
  1. employers and workers could go to the same place
  2. could mend and wash clothes
  3. 414 by 1911
  4. problems
    1. not compulsory to advertise jobs
    2. did not help -seasonal workers, specialist workers(engineers, masons)
2. National Insurance act (part II)
  1. provided unemployment payments regularly
  2. contributions from worker - so he felt he was paying his way
  3. employer protecting their worker for the first time
  4. government replaced inadequate poor law for those workers covered
  5. problems
    1. did not cover enough workers - 7 trades
    2. contributions pushed poorer workers into poverty
    3. did not cover seasonal workers
    4. did not cover workers for long enough

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