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Liberal Reforms 1906 - 1914 (Working Class (1906 Workmen's…

- - - - Free school meals
      - Replaced charity involvement
      - Authorities given 50% grants by treasury
      - 9 million to 14 million school meals by 1914
    - - Many authorities were not providing meals
      - School holidays
      - Costly for the government
  - - - Three medical inspections
      - Boards could act against parents
      - Free medical treatment after 1912
    - - Free treatment was not always provided
  - - - Banned children from begging
      - Tobacco and alcohol penalties
      - Juvenile courts set up
      - Abolished death sentence for children
    - - Little success with alcohol and tobacco
      - Did little to deal with causes of juvenile crime
- - - - Compulsory health insurance for >£160
      - 9 shilling sickness benefit
      - Free medical treatment
      - 30 shilling maternity
    - - 26 weeks absence only
      - No provision for workers family
      - Made poverty worse as they were paid less
- - - - Offices to help find work
      - 1913
        
        430 labour exchanges
      - 1914
        
        3000 people were provided with work daily
    - - Not compulsory to register vacancies
      - Temporary and low paid work
  - - - After one week, a worker would receive 7 shillings a week for 15 weeks
      - Involved many trades
        
        Shipbuilding
        
        Iron founding
    - - Limited time
      - Bad conduct left nothing
      - No family provision
      - 2 million workers only
      - Too expensive after WW1
- - - - All employees could receive injury compensation
    - - Difficult and costly to prove liability
      - Trade union support was needed
  - - - 8 hour day
    - - Only applied to miners
  - - - Negotiate minimum wage
      - 200,000 workers
    - - No definition of minimum wage
  - - - Weekly half day holiday
      - 60 hours working week
      - Washing facilities
    - - Half day only