What did the Royal Commission's Report recommend?

Question 1

Published in

Answer 1

1834, 1st part = attacked old Poor Law for corrupt practices and demoralising paupers, 2nd part = commissioners’ conclusions and recommendations

Question 2

Overall conclusion of report

Answer 2

old Poor Law was the cause of poverty

Question 3

Commissioners recommended radical changes

Answer 3

to save money and improve efficiency

Question 4

Separate workhouses should be provided for

Answer 4

aged and infirm, children, able-bodied women and able-bodied men

Question 5

Parishes should group into unions

Answer 5

for purpose of providing these workhouses

Question 6

All relief outside workhouse should stop

Answer 6

and conditions in workhouses should be such that no one would enter willingly

Question 7

New central authority should be established

Answer 7

with powers to make and enforce regulations concerning workhouse system

Question 8

Aims of Poor Law Policy

Answer 8

Reduce cost of providing relief to poor, ensure only genuinely destitute received relief, provide national system of poor relief