Effects

• Short term success - provided support for the elderly, mothers, workers who couldn’t work through illness or children
• Short term limitations - National Insurance Act didn’t cover women, children, unemployed or elderly people
• Short term opposition - Conservative Party worried it costed too much money, Labour didn’t like workers paying into National Insurance. some workers didn’t like wage deductions
• Long term impact - measures continued to be passed over the next 30 years. set the precedent for government intervention. Infant mortality has declined to 42 out of 1000 births and life expectancy increased