Social policy

• Abortion act 1967

  • Regressive policy
  • Response to already alarming 1000 illegal abortions weekly and their impacts
• Contraceptive pill 1967

  Offered to all women and society became homogenous - response to already emerged ideas within the sixties
• What changed in TV

  • BBC monopoly ends and Hugh Green - director encourages satire, populism and realistic dramas
  • Pushes out permissiveness ans social conventions change
• tv stats

  1961 - 75% have tv

  1971 - 91% have tv
• What do radio changes do?

  • Allow for personal devices which led to pirate radio stations and multiple audiences - moving away from homogeneity
• The sun launched in 1964

  • popular
• Reduction in censorship :

  • Theatrical censorship abolished in 1968
  • Private members bill with Roy Jenkins support
  • Films nad to with more daring scenes - abortion, Audrey and illegitimacy such as Wednesdays play were allowed
• Betting and gaming act 1960
• 1961 Suicide act was progressive
• 1961 Contraceptive pill ofr married women

  1967 - all women
• 1961 Education act was progressive as it allowed for lower class to attend uni w grants
• 1965 Race relations act outlawed racial discrimination which was progressive
• 1967 sexua offences act decriminalised homosexuality for men
• 1969 representation of the peoples act lowered voting age to 8
• 1970 equal pay was progressive
• 2 per 1000 marriages rises to 10 by 1970 - women’s independance but also divorce Act
• David steel and Roy Jenkins pass the abortional legislation supported by public after Thalomide disaster
• Education reforms :

  • Tripartite Appeared as socially divisive
  • 30 polytechnics
  • open university - 1971 began
• Permissiveness was exaggerated as the dangerous drugs act and reports highlighted the restraint o society