Labour Reforms Successes essay Flashcards
Labour Reforms topics
Want, disease, squalor, ignorance, idleness
Labour reforms introduction
Beveridge report, interventions in WW2, evacuations showing middle-class the extent of poverty
Want K
National Insurance Act 1946 ‘cradle to grave’ protection with benefits, a pension and a death grant, National Assistance Act 1948 ‘safety net’ for those who could not afford National Insurance
Want A
National Insurance was comprehensive and efficient
Want A+
Benefit levels set in 1946 and had dropped due to inflation by 1948 when the system came into operation
Want E
Industrial Injuries Act 1946 45 shillings a week for six months to injured workers, permanently if disabled
Disease K
National Health Service Bill 1946 for free and universal healthcare, cost £358 million per year by 1950
Disease A
NHS Improved health of nation
Disease A+
High costs for NHS meant higher taxes
Disease E
Infant mortality dropped 50% from 1946 to 1950 and rickets virtually eliminated
Squalor K
Aimed to build 200,000 homes per year plus 157,000 prefabs, 750,000 homes still needed in 1951 same amount as 1931
Squalor A
High quality of housing meant the end of slums
Squalor A+
Homelessness still a major issue by the end of Labour’s term
Squalor E
New Towns Act 1946 to build 14 new towns including Livingston and Glenrothes giving new homes and communities
Idleness K
Full employment and unemployment levels below 2.5% for most of 1946-50, 20% of key industries nationalised including steel, airlines and the Bank of England
