Policies

• Rest centres and meal service centres

  To help those who suffered air raids
• Committee for homeless

  1 million homes were made habitable

  Prefabricated homes were created to meet the housing shortage
• National Assistance

  The ' means test ' was abolished in 1941 and help was given to the needy
• Emergency Hospital Service

  1941 - 8/10 hospitals were brought under a national scheme
• National Fire Service

  Over 1500 different fire services were brough together
• Mothers and children

  Diphtheria immunisation

  Free milk to school children

  Extension of free school meals

  Orange juice and cod liver oil provided

  ---> reduction in infant mortality rate
• Railways

  1942- British railways united and nationalised the rail network
• Factory Acts

  1904 Factory Acts- responsible of the Minister of Labour

  Improved welfare for 6 million workers

  Improved conditions of work for younger workers

  Catering Wages Act 1942

  Wages Councils Act 1945 -> improved wages for low paid
• 1941 Post War Problems

  Chaired by Tory R A Butler

  Began to consider post war reform and reconstruction
• 1942 Beveridge Report

  Influential report

  Aimed to deal with poverty , ill health and unemployment
• 1940 Barlow Report , 1942 Uthwatt Report , 1942 Scott Report , 1944 White Paper on Land Use


  Paved the way for purchase of land for development of housing , for location of industries to be controlled and for planning of new towns

  Conservation areas and control of smoke
• 1944 Full Employment in a Free Society

  Beveridge published another report advocating an end to unemployment
• 1944 Ministry of National Insurance

  Bought health and unemployment insurance under 1 ministry
• 1944 Town and Country Planning Act

  Ministry of town and country planning set up in 1943

  Dealt with reconstruction of badly bombed / blighted areas
• 1944 Education Act

  Each area in Britain was to provide a varied and comprehensive education service

  School leaving age raised: 15 by 1947 -16 after

  Education divided - primary , secondary , tertiary

  School fees in state schools ended -milk+meals provided

  Exam at the age of 11 was introduced