what were the reforms

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  • 1906 - liberal party win election and begin welfare state
  • 1906 - free school meals introduced for kids of poor families. 3 million in 1906 to 14 million in 1914
  • 1906 - board of education send pamphlets to teach hygiene in schools
  • 1907 - school medical service is set up to check kids for disease and conditions
  • 1908 - children and young persons act: illegal to sell alcohol+tobacco to kids
  • 1908 - pensions for those over 70, 25p a week. 600,000 pensions were given in 1908, weren't given to alcoholics or people that had been in prison in the last 10 years
  • 1909 - labour exchanges made for people to find jobs more easily
  • 1909 - liberal government raise taxes to fund social reforms