Labour Essay Flashcards
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Introduction - Layout
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- Background info (2 points)
- List of factors (There are many key factors such as…)
- Line of argument (This essay will argue…)
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Introduction - knowledge
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- Before early 20th century, idea of Laissez - Faire - own fault for poverty, your responsibility to get out of it
- During war, Beveridge appointed head of committee charged with investigating social security in Britain
- In Dec 1942 the Beveridge report was published
- Report highlighted ‘giants’ which needed to be tackled in order to escape poverty, these ‘giants’ which the Labour gov based reforms on
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Introduction - Factors
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Some of the giants tackled are…
- Disease which intended to tackle the issue of sickness by introducing the NHS
- Ignorance which aimed to tackle the lack of education by improving schooling
- Squalor which targeted the lack of housing and aimed to improve living conditions
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Introduction - line of argument
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- This essay will argue that the Labour Reforms of 1945-51 were effective in meeting the needs of the British people to a great extent as they made a large step towards tackling Britain’s problems.
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Disease - Knowledge
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- During 1948, NHS introduced - provided medical services like GP visits, dental, and opticians all free
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Disease - Analysis
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- This makes Labour Reforms effective in meeting needs…
- Because it meant that poorest could now get access to healthcare which improved health of Britain
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Disease - Analysis +
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- However, Labour gov underestimated the amount of people that would need medical attention
- During first 3 years NHS budget increased from 134 million - 356 million
- Because of this patients had to pay half the cost of things such as glasses and false teeth
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Disease - Evaluation
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- In evaluation…
- Despite the charges for some services being introduced because of the NHS budget not being able to cover everyone who required medical attention, meaning innecessible to poor,
- Labour reforms still successful in dealing with the needs of the British people to an extent…
- Because the NHS provided free health services to everyone making help accessible and also, in the first year, the NHS treated 9 million dental patients and handed out 5 million pairs of glasses
- Shows how many people NHS helped
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Ignorance - Knowledge
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- During 1944 the Education Act was introduced
- Aimed to remove inequalities in school system and made it a duty of schools to provide meals and milk. Also made secondary school education free to all and raised leaving age to 15
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Ignorance - Analysis
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- Made LR effective in dealing with needs…
- Made secondary school much more accessible even to poorest
- Meant children got longer and more fulfilling education which made them better for the future
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Ignorance - Analysis +
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- However, Education Act also introduced 11+ test which placed children in different schools according to their ability
- Made LR less effective as…
- Meant that people who didn’t pass test had to go to a junior secondary school - wasn’t well funded, less academic
- Meant that those who went found it harder in the future to get a job
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Ignorance - Evaluation
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- In Evaluation…
- Even though the introduction of the 11+ test gave those who went to a senior secondary school an advantage over those who went to a junior one…
- LR effective in meeting needs…
- As not only did… (free education, first point)
- But by 1951, the Labour Gov had built 1000 new schools which meant that more children had a school in their area which increased school attendance and also helped their future.
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Squalor - Knowledge
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- In 1946 the New Towns Act was introduced
- Established programme for building new towns
- Gave the government power to designate areas of land for new town development
- Aimed to build 200,000 houses a year and by 1951 they had built 1 million new houses
- Equipped with electricity, gardens and indoor toilets
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Squalor - Analysis
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- Meant more people now living in safety and comfort and lowered the amount of people living in slums
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Squalor - Analysis +
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- However, baby boom after war meant that Labour gov were still 750,000 houses short
- Still many people in Britain who couldn’t access new houses
