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| A report chaired by Sir William beveridge identifying the Five Giant Evils and major welfare reforms, issued in 1944 |
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| Want, Ignorance, Squalor, Disease and Idleness |
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| Passed 1946, extending unemployment benefits, benefits for pregnant women, pensions and allowances introduced for sick, widows and mothers. |
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| Given for the first child from 1946 |
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| Increased pensions in 1946 |
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| percentage of wages awarded as benefits, not enough to reach the subsidy level |
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| Passed 1945, sometimes inefficient |
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| Industrial Industries Act |
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| passed 1946, providing compensation for injured workers. |
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| Passed 1948 abolishing Poor Law, work houses and the Unemployment Assistance Boards that regulated long-term unemployment benefits. |
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| Demobbing lead to a peak in unemployment. |
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| Homes promised by Bevin, an unrealistic promise. |
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| Passed 1946 and 1949 providing financial help to local authority rebuilding. |
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| Temporary Homes built by 1945 Labour Government. |
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| Passed 1946 and 1949, designed to protect tennants. |
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| Issued 1945 predicting the need for 750,000 houses |
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| Passed 1946, planning 14 New Towns |
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| Access to the Countryside Act |
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| Passed 1949, protecting footpaths etc. and aiming to improve the health of the population. |
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| Housing programme reduced |
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| Passed 1944, but implemented in 1947, providing free secondary education, the 11+ system of allocation to a school according to ability, established LEAs and raised the school leaving age to 15 |
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| Employment and Training Act |
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| Passed 1948. Established a skilled workforce, funding school leavers and training demobbed servicemen. |
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| Grammar schools in Surrey |
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| Grammar schools in Lancashire |
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| Increase in class sizes after 1944 Education Act |
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| National Health Service Act |
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| Passed 1946, engineered by Bevan establishing a free national health service for all, began 5th July 1948 |
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| Estimated annual budget of the NHS |
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| Actual annual expenditure of the NHS |
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| Free dental treatments 1948-49 |
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| Perscriptions filled 1948-49 |
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| Some NHS charges introduced, Bevan resigns in protest |
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| Available NHS dentists for the whole country. |
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