Liberals Essay Flashcards
Young KU A & A+
1906-Provisions of free school meals- one healthy school meal a day
A- 158,000 children where receiving the meals
A+ It was voluntary-only 1/3 local councils offered school meals
Administrative provisions- could see a doctor for the first time
A- 80% of girls in live had bugs, fleas, lice- free
A+ less useful as parents still had to pay for medicine
Intro
1906- Britain had a huge poverty problem-investigations by Rt and B highlighted the scale91/3 living in poverty). In response the Liberal Gov. in 1914 introduced a series of reforms to try and meet the needs of the people- ie old age pension act
Young EV
Eventhough 14 million free school meals where given out by 1914 it didn’t help during summer times where children would no longer rercive the free meal a day- no long term impact
Unemployed KU A & A+
1909- Labour exchanges- help find employment like a job centre- easy to find work
A- found 4000 jobs a week by 1914 meaning many had a source of income
A+ however favoured skilled workers 3/4 didn’t find work
1911- NIA- employee, employer and state pay into it- employee pay 2.5p
A- after 1 week of unemployment worker would get 35p for 15 weeks
A+ after 15 they had to resort to poor law
Unemployed EV
Eventhough there where 400 exchanges in 1914 didn’t help as many thought they where loosing money
old KU A A+
1908 old age pensions act- if <31.50 you got 25p- couples 35p
A- collected from postoffice- no stigma & removed fear of workhouse
A+ 70 to apply- age expectancy was 55
old EV
Even though after a year 80000 people stopped claiming relief from charities the government Rowantree argued that single person needed 35p to stay above the poverty line so the 25p given was not enough for those who needed it as some still ended up in workhouses and had to rely on poor law.
