The Liberal Reforms
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- Created on: 12-06-17 16:29
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- Measures the Liberals Introduced
- Opposition
- The Middle Class
- Most owned small businesses. Insurance schemes meant employers had to pay for employees insurance.
- Widows did not receive pensions.
- Taxes would go towards paying for others pensions and workers' insurance
- Insurance Companies
- The state giving insurence put private companies out of business
- Conservatives
- Believed in Laissez-Faire
- Idea that everyone should be left alone, to deal by themselves.
- Was costing everyone money.
- Believed in Laissez-Faire
- Workers and the Poor
- Being made to pay money for insurance that they couldn't spare
- Sick pay would only be enough to support selves, not family
- Family didn't get free health care too, only the insured worker
- The Middle Class
- The National Insurance Act
- Health Insurance
- Men and women in jobs earning under £160 per year HAD to join
- Had to pay 4d out of each weeks wages.
- Employer payed 3d
- State added 2d
- In return, the worker received up to 26 weeks of sick of sick pay - 10 shillings a week.
- Those insured got free health care.
- Unemployment benefit
- 2.5d must be payed by worker
- 2.5d payed for by employer
- 1.75d by government each week
- Worker would receive 7 shillings per week for up to 15 weeks.
- Benefit was a small amount so people wouldn't be able to live too long on that alone. Wouldn't sit around doing nothing and would have to find new job.
- Job centres were set up to try and reduce unemployment
- Minimum wage also introduced to make sure no-one was left in absolute poverty
- Benefit was a small amount so people wouldn't be able to live too long on that alone. Wouldn't sit around doing nothing and would have to find new job.
- Health Insurance
- The Elderly and Pensions
- A person over 70 with an income of less than £31 would get 5 shillings a week
- Married couples would receive 5 shillings, 6d
- Made them independant. Less of a burden
- Had to have lived in Britain for the last 20 years.
- Could be refused to people who had failed to work to best abilities earlier in life
- Married couples would receive 5 shillings, 6d
- Pensions were not new but the poor couldn't afford private pensions.
- It was non-contributary
- Government funded all
- A person over 70 with an income of less than £31 would get 5 shillings a week
- For Children
- 1906 - An act was passed that allowed authorities to give free school meals
- 1914 - 14 million meals served. Most for free
- Was not compulsory
- Only half of Britain's local authorities actually set up meals service
- Medical Care
- Every local education authority had to set up school medical service
- At first this was just regular checkups
- By 1912, treatment also provided in school clinics
- At first this was just regular checkups
- Every local education authority had to set up school medical service
- The Children and Young Persons Act
- In the past, insurance companies had payed parents on the death of their children..........even under suspicious circumstances
- Children were given status as protected persons
- Parents could now be prosectued for neglect
- Act made it illegal to insure a child's life
- Young offenders institutes opened so children did not need to go to same prisons as adults
- In the past, insurance companies had payed parents on the death of their children..........even under suspicious circumstances
- 1906 - An act was passed that allowed authorities to give free school meals
- Opposition
- Food
- Made it illegal for alcohol, tobacco and fireworks to be sold to those under 16
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