The Vision: an all-inclusive welfare state

welfare state
1. governerment takes responibility for the welfare of citizens
2. protect from misfortune
3. collective responsibilty
before
1. had to manage in hard times
2. illness, child death rates high
3. workhouse - seperating families
4. Orpahages
5. poor housing
6. negative effects
7. Pawn sunday best to pay rent
8. lack of basis accessible health services
9. 1930's economic crisis
  1. high unemployment rates
  2. poverty
  3. divided
    1. rising standards in south
10. squalor
people expectations of a better life rising
campaigins for NHS started beofre WW2
WW2 (1939-1945)
1. total war
  1. Civilians involved as well
2. affected everyone
3. experince brouth a common sense of equality and citizenship
mass public support sweeping social reforms
1. cradle to grave
coalition government - churchill
1. bevridge appointed
2. social insurance and allied services (Beveridge report 1942)
  Attachments:
  - Beveridge report
  1. Blueprint for the new post war welfare state

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