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The Beveridge Report
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A report chaired by Sir William beveridge identifying the Five Giant Evils and major welfare reforms, issued in 1944
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The Five Giants
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Want, Ignorance, Squalor, Disease and Idleness
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National Allowance Act
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Passed 1946, extending unemployment benefits, benefits for pregnant women, pensions and allowances introduced for sick, widows and mothers.
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5s
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Given for the first child from 1946
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26s
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Increased pensions in 1946
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19%
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percentage of wages awarded as benefits, not enough to reach the subsidy level
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Family Allowance Act
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Passed 1945, sometimes inefficient
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Industrial Industries Act
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passed 1946, providing compensation for injured workers.
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National Assistance Act
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Passed 1948 abolishing Poor Law, work houses and the Unemployment Assistance Boards that regulated long-term unemployment benefits.
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1947
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Demobbing lead to a peak in unemployment.
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100,000
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Emmigrants in 1946
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5 million
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Homes promised by Bevin, an unrealistic promise.
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Housing Acts
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Passed 1946 and 1949 providing financial help to local authority rebuilding.
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1 million
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New homes built by 1951
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150,000
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Temporary Homes built by 1945 Labour Government.
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Rent Control Acts
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Passed 1946 and 1949, designed to protect tennants.
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White Paper
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Issued 1945 predicting the need for 750,000 houses
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New Towns Act
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Passed 1946, planning 14 New Towns
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Access to the Countryside Act
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Passed 1949, protecting footpaths etc. and aiming to improve the health of the population.
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500,000
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Squatters in 1946
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1947
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Housing programme reduced
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Education Act
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Passed 1944, but implemented in 1947, providing free secondary education, the 11+ system of allocation to a school according to ability, established LEAs and raised the school leaving age to 15
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Employment and Training Act
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Passed 1948. Established a skilled workforce, funding school leavers and training demobbed servicemen.
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40%
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Grammar schools in Surrey
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15%
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Grammar schools in Lancashire
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50%
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Increase in class sizes after 1944 Education Act
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National Health Service Act
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Passed 1946, engineered by Bevan establishing a free national health service for all, began 5th July 1948
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£187million
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Estimated annual budget of the NHS
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£355million
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Actual annual expenditure of the NHS
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8.5 million
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Free dental treatments 1948-49
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5.75 million
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Glasses issued 1948-49
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187 million
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Perscriptions filled 1948-49
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1951
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Some NHS charges introduced, Bevan resigns in protest
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100,000
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Available NHS dentists for the whole country.
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