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... Boards . If a Board chose to follow a generous policy , for ex- ample of paying outdoor relief to the unemployed , and could per- suade local ratepayers to finance it , the central authority had some difficulty in stopping such action ...
... Boards . If a Board chose to follow a generous policy , for ex- ample of paying outdoor relief to the unemployed , and could per- suade local ratepayers to finance it , the central authority had some difficulty in stopping such action ...
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... Board of Education's inspectors on infant education led to the Board for the first time limiting school provision for children under five hitherto the normal age for the entry of working - class children to full - time education had ...
... Board of Education's inspectors on infant education led to the Board for the first time limiting school provision for children under five hitherto the normal age for the entry of working - class children to full - time education had ...
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... Board of Educa- tion had wide responsibility for the health and education of mothers and schoolchildren : the Privy Council was responsible for the Midwives ' Acts ; the Ministry of Pensions ( established in 1917 ) | administered ...
... Board of Educa- tion had wide responsibility for the health and education of mothers and schoolchildren : the Privy Council was responsible for the Midwives ' Acts ; the Ministry of Pensions ( established in 1917 ) | administered ...
Contents
Introduction | 2 |
The First World War and after | 126 |
The interwar years | 163 |
Copyright | |
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A. L. Bowley administration areas authorities Beatrice Webb benefits Beveridge Board Britain British cent central charity child Committee Conservative contributions cost demand economic effect efficiency Eleanor Rathbone employers established expenditure family allowances fear finance full employment growth Guardians health service housing improved income increased industrial infant introduced Keynes labour movement Labour party legislation Liberal Lloyd George London major ment minimum national health national health service old-age pensions organizations out-door relief paid party paupers period planning political Poor Law poor relief population post-war poverty pre-war pressure problem proposals R. H. Tawney reconstruction reform rent Report result Rowntree Rowntree's scheme schools sickness social policy social services society standards tion towns trade union Treasury unem unemployed unemployment insurance wages wartime Webbs week welfare William Beveridge women workers workhouse working-class