LEGISLATION TIMELINE

LEGISLATION TIMELINE

1. Beveridge report 1942

   • education act 1944
     • national insurance act 1946
       • NHS act 1946
         • Children's act 1948
           • National Ass act 1948
             • Housing Act 1949
               • Seebohm Report 1968
                 • NHS and Community Care Act 1990
                   • Intro internal market into health care. Made state an enabler rather than supplier Responsibility of local authorities to assess people and purchase services from providers. to become providers health orgs became NHS TRUSTS COMPETEING WITH EACH OTHER. Community care enabled long term health issues to live inthe community
                 • centralised social services. No longer welfare services,. Generic S/W training
                 • 1985 Housing Act
                   • limited tennants rights and reduced the value of housing benefit
                   • Social Security Act 1986
                     • changes to welfare sysytem benefits, grants no longer avaliable thye changed to loans which needed to be repaid
                 • local authority S/S act 1970
                   • Est single S/S dept in each local authority
               • provided for more public sector housed via local authorities
             • Set up national assistance bord to provide means tested benefits for anyone not entitled to national Ins benefits
           • created local authority children's depts throughout uk. Childcare professionals could take children into care
         • free health service for all
         • 1946 housing act
           • increased subsidy avaliable to local g'ments to provide housing to address post war shortages
       • intro N.I and entitlement to benefits
         • unemployment, maternity, widows, sickness
     • free secondary ed. for all
   • Poor law act 1834
     • aimed reduce cost of looking after poor
       • if they wanted help had to enter workhouse
   • addressed 5 giant evils
     • blueprint for welfare state