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1
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National Insurance Scheme … only covered … male pop

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1911
10%

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Unemp Insurance Act … = forced to hand out additional ‘dole payments’ early as …

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1920
1921

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Unemp Insurance Act payments - … per week for man, bus driver earned … a week

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75p
£3

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Housing & Town Planning Act … = estimated … houses to meet demand, … constructed before onset recession, estimated shortfall … by …

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1919
over 600,000
213,000
822,000
1923

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existing Old Age Pensions Act …

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1908

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1920-40 … homes built total = by 1940 … homes built since 1918

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4mil
1/3

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… … ‘cottage estates’ created on outskirts London

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1924-39
20

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By … Established shortfall of … Homes, by … …

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1923
Over 800,000
1939
Over 1mil

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National Economy Act … Introduced … Cut to unemp. benefits & ‘means test’

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1931
10%

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… Alone … claims for unemp assistance rejected

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1931
400,000

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11
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… Unemp Act reversed 10% cut for short term benefits

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1934

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12
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Blitz bombing

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Sep 1940 - May 1941

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Blitz = … Houses destroyed, … Houses in London damaged/destroyed

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2mil
Over 60%

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Opinion polls in … … Of public saw housing as biggest challenge

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1945
41%

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15
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Before WWII … Soldiers unfit for combat

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41%

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16
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… Seriously injured by Blitz

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Over 139,000

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17
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Conscription …, rationing …

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1939
1940

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18
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Beveridge Report … Recommended radical action to tackle ‘Five Giants’ …

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1942
Want, disease, ignorance, squalor & idleness

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19
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Cost of unemp benefits 1939 = … GNP, … By 1970

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0.6%
8.8%

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20
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Britain’s deficit reached … By 70s

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£800mil

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21
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Average life expectancy increased 1941-70 = … To … For women, … To … For men

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64
74
59
69

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22
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Right wing Con Sir Keith Joseph inspired by …

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Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek

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Housing & Town Planning Act … = Local authorities can use gov funding for house building, … Houses constructed

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1919?
213,000

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24
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Housing Acts … & … & Labour Housing Act … Used gov subsidies & promoted house building

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1923 & 24
1930

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25
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‘out of work donation’

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1918-20

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26
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Unemp Insurance Act … = Insurance paid by employees, employers & gov, covered … Workers

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1920
11.4mil

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Widows’, Orphans’ & Old Age Contributory Pensions Act … = … Per week paid to families & funded by compulsory contributions

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1925
10 shillings

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28
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Wall Street Crash

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1929

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29
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End of 1930 unemp more than doubled … To …

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1mil
2.5mil

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30
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National Economy Act … Gave … Power to ‘means-test’ claimants

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1931
Public Assistance Committees

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31
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Unemployment Act … Introduced … Unemp assistance for… Workers who paid into scheme & created …

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1934
6 months
14.5mil
Unemp Assistance Board

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32
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Housing Act … & … Forced local authorities to tackle problem of slum housing

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1933 & 35

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33
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New Towns Act … Planned … New towns including … & …

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1946
12
Hatfield
Milton Keynes

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34
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Housing Act … Empowered Local Authorities to buy homes for improvement … Council homes built …

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1949
~700,000
1945-51

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35
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NHS … Consisted of … Hospitals & … Staff

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1948
3,100
360,000

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36
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Family Allowances Act … Provided mothers with … Per week for every child after first

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1945
5 shillings

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37
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National Insurance Act … Made unemp benefits available for all workers & provided state pension for men over … & Women over …

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1946
65
60

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38
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Hospital Plan … = opened … new hospitals & redesigned/refurbished further …

39
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(Macmillan) by … … homes built with … social housing

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1964
1.7mil
40%

40
Q

(Heath) Family Income Support …

41
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Ministry of Health … established under …

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1919
Chris Addison

42
Q

Medical Research Council … -> Tuberculosis Act … (cases TB fell every year …)

A

1919
1921
(1919-39)

43
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Local Gov. Act … devolved responsibility healthcare, given centralised funds -> e.g. … in …

A

1929
Pioneer Health Centre
Peckham

44
Q

infant mortality rate fell … to … …

A

14.3 /1000
12 /1000
1906-39

45
Q

national survey … = chronic shortage … & poor distribution access to good hospitals

A

1938
beds, equipment, trained consultants

46
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… think-tanks e.g. … = British healthcare system lagged behind most developed countries e.g. …

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late 30s
‘Political & Economic Planning’ think-tank
Australia, America & European rivals

47
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(by 1939) working class women lived on average … less than middle class

48
Q

Blitz bombing … To … Left … Civilians seriously injured & … Killed

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Sep 1940
May 1941
139,000
43,000

49
Q

… William Beveridge appointed to investigate welfare provision & recommend improvements, Beveridge Report …

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June 1941
1942

50
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Local Gov Act … = Regional act, gave local authorities control so no time frame/compulsion to improve hospitals

51
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By 1939 … State run hospitals received no modernisation & still resembled … Infirmaries of Victorian era

A

Half
‘poor law’

52
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By 1939 … Pop insured against illness

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Less than half

53
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Maternal mortality … Higher among working class women

54
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… To … Bevan devoted himself to creation National Health Insurance Act (Eng & Wales)

A

Aug 1945
July 1946

55
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… Doctors signed up for new service

56
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… NHS enabled gov centralised control of … Hospitals with … Staff

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5th July 1948
3,100
360,000

57
Q

Merrison Report … Found hospitals received … Total NHS funding

58
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In 50s found hospitals in middle class areas received budget … Per head, only … Working class areas

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£4.98
£3.19

59
Q

Much of funding from Hospital Plan Act … Spent in London

60
Q

Social research in … By … Suggested ‘inverse care law’

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70s & 80s
Dr Julian Tudor Hart

61
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… Black Report by … = Overall gap between classes widened, working class women … Likely to die in childbirth

A

1980
Dep of Health
Twice

62
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By … … Types of antibiotic available, just … In 1948

63
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NHS developed… Different blood pressure drugs

64
Q

By … NHS introduced routine vaccines against …

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1964
Diphtheria, tuberculosis, poliomyelitis, whooping cough & tetanus

65
Q

By 1979 NHS performed … Kidney transplants a year & … Heart bypasses

66
Q

June 1948 last month before NHS … Prescriptions dispensed by chemists, Sep 1948 = …

A

6.8mil
13.6mil

67
Q

Maternal death rate … In 1948, … 1979

A

1 per 1000 births
0.19 per 1000 births

68
Q

More women chose to give birth in hospital - … In 50s, by 1979 …

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50%
Almost 97%

69
Q

Lewis Report … recommended inc school leaving age … to …, create … & two-tiered curriculum -> …

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1918
12
14
‘County Colleges’
Fisher Ed Act 1918

70
Q

Hadow Report … recommended primary & secondary schools, ‘tripartite system’ & inc leaving age to …

71
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C. P. Trevelyan sought reform through … & … (defeated) -> eventually … inc school leaving age but transferred management back to LEAs

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Ed Bill 1929
Elementary Schools Bill 1929
Trevelyan Ed Act 1936

72
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elementary schools often had class size … & by 1939 only … working class children over … in school

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50-60
13%
13

73
Q

from … unis directly funded by gov … running costs

74
Q

1900 only … attended uni only increased to … by …

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20,000
38,000
1939

75
Q

by 1930 new unis e.g. …

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Reading, Nottingham & Southampton

76
Q

1939 … attended uni = lower than …

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less than 2%
other European nations, America, Canada & Japan

77
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Butler Ed Act … Established ‘tripartite system’

78
Q

Secondary moderns = … Children, technical schools … Children at peak

79
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1947 … Children in maintained schools, 1967 …

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5.5mil
9.1mil

80
Q

By … School leaving age raised to 15

81
Q

Crosland Circular …

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1965
(Circular 10/65)

82
Q

… Stated Dep of Ed would refuse approval new school unless comprehensive

83
Q

Thatcher Heath’s Ed Secretary

84
Q

60s & 70s num comprehensives doubled …

85
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Ed Act … Callahan’s Ed Secretary … Removed funding grammar schools & forced LEAs to introduce comprehensives or have funding removed

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1976
Shirley Williams

86
Q

Attending comprehensives: … 1964, … 1980

87
Q

Percy Report … & Barlow Report … Argued urgent need STEM, modernisation & expansion uni places -> new unis e.g. …

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1945
1946
Nottingham & Exeter

88
Q

Robbins Report … Recommended … Increase uni places by 1980

89
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Ed Act … = Grants for uni students & funding for huge expansion -> … New ‘plate-glass’ unis by … e.g. …

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1962
11
1970
Kent & York

90
Q

Open Uni created…

91
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Thatcher (Heath’s Ed Minister) increased student grants by … & Provided funding for further … Unis & … Polytechnics

92
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Ed Act … Raised school leaving age 15 to 16 & encouraged ‘work experience’

93
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Ed Act … Removed funding grammar schools & forced LEAs to introduce comprehensives or have funding removed

94
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… Oxbridge students female 60s & 70s

A-level History - Britain 1918-97 (11 decks)

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