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Chapter 7 - Rebuilding the country after 1945 (Attacking the five giants…
Chapter 7 - Rebuilding the country after 1945
Attacking the five giants
Ignorance
1944 Education Act
Ministry of Education created
Education divided into primary, secondary, etc
Secondary into grammar, technical and modern
Free education until left school at 14. 15 in 1947
Squalor
1946 Housing Production Executive set up
Thousands of pre-fabs constructed
1946 New Towns Act - 17 in England, 5 in Scotland and 1 in Wales were enlarged
Disease
1946 National Health Service Act
All citizens recieving same advice, treatment, and care combined with the best services available
Free service
Idleness
Building schemes ensured high employment
Labour showed that it intended to manage the economy
Want
1945 Family Allowances Act
5 shillings (25p) per week for each child after first one
Allowances payable to Mother
Payable until child was 15/16 or in full time education
1946 National Insurance Act
Ministry of National Insurance set up
Unemployment and sickness benefit
Maternity benefit given to mother on birth of child
Death grant for funeral
Widow's benefit
Guardians of orphans to recieve allowance
OAP - women over 60 and men over 65
1948 - National Assistance Act
Designed to help those who 'slipped through the net' of the new system
Abolished Poor Law system
Chronically ill people who could not access National Health Board
Homeless, disabled and mentally ill covered in Act