labour success Flashcards
disease K1
The NHS Act was passed in 1946 and came into operation in 1948, under the guidance of Aneurin Bevan the Minister for Health and Housing. The NHS was designed to provide free and comprehensive healthcare for all.
disease K2
The fundamental principles underlying the NHS were that the services, such as childcare, prescriptions, and provisions for the elderly, would be funded predominantly from the general taxation and that they would in general, be free at the point of use, comprehensive, and available to all regardless of means to pay
disease A+
the NHS became a massive burden for taxpayers as costs soared. The reform cost £7 million per month for prescriptions and eventually, Bevan had to compromise on free treatment and the new Chancellor, Hugh Gaitskell introduced prescription fees,
squalor K1
In 1946, the New Towns Act involved 12 new towns being planned to reduce overcrowding in inner cities including East Kilbride and Glenrothes.
squalor K2
The Housing Act 1949 gave councils the power to forcibly purchase housing stock in order to make improvements. This meant that they could buy poor quality slum housing and either improve or replace it.
squalor A+
the 1951 census revealed that there were 750,000 fewer houses than households in Britain. This was approximately the same level of homelessness in 1931,
ignorance K1
The 1944 Butler Education Act raised the age at which children could leave school to 15 as part of a drive to create more skilled workers which Britain lacked at the time.
ignorance K2
Labour introduced a new two-tiered system of secondary schooling. Pupils were made to sit an ‘11+ exam’. The pupils who passed the exam were sent to grammar schools and those who failed were sent to secondary moderns.
ignorance A+
it was clear that a first-rate and second-rate structure was being put in place in education. Failure at a young age could determine a child’s future at 11 or 12,
