On the 1930's poverty, unemployment and growing dissatisfaction with inequality led to increasing pressure for better health care, social services and other improvements in living coniditions
The second world war was a catalyst for social reform and gave a sense of urgency to the need for an overhaul of the whole system of welfare
The Beveridge Report captured the mood for reform by proposing a universal system of social insurance, family allowances and a free health service for all
There was widespread public enthusiasm for beveridges plan for the construction of the welfare state after the war
Despite its popularity at the beginning. Beveridges scheme has some in-built limitations and drawbacks.
The immediate post-war social legislation set the scene for social care becoming the poor relation of health care
The welfare state was based an assumptions of continuing high employment and a stable family unit
Benefits and pensions were set relatively low, 'subsistence' level, with the result that they provided inadequate to prevent poverty and a return to means-tested benefits on a large scale
The Beveridge vision relied on limited gender roles: married women were expected to provide care in the home and their husbands to go out to work
Single women providing care at home were undervalued by the welfare state

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Degree Introduction to health and social care (Block 6) Note on Block 6 key points, created by Charlie_eeyore on 01/06/2013.

Block 6 key points