Labour effectiveness

factors/giants

squalor(housing), disease(health), ignorance(education)

who established the Inter-Departmental Committee on Social Insurance and Allied Services

Sir William Beveridge

in what year was overcrowding a common issue in Britain

1945

number of homes destroyed in the war from bomb damage

700,000

act for squalor + year

New Towns Act of 1946

number of new towns made

14

2 examples of new towns

Glenrothes and East Kilbride

year pre-fabs were introduced

1945

number of pre-fabs built

157,000

homelessness was higher in ___ than ___

1951 than 1931

yearly aim for houses built

200,000

number of homes built in 1945

280,000

number of homes made in 1946

55,000

disease reform

National Health Service(NHS)

year of NHS established

1946

yearly budget for NHS

£140 million

how many dental patients treated within first year of NHS

8 million

how many glasses provided within first year of NHS

5 million

how many more prescriptions provided monthly compared to pre-NHS

6.5 million

how much did the NHS cost to fund in a year by 1950

£358 million

when were charged for prescriptions, dental treatment, and glasses brought back(2 years)

1951 and 1952

act for ignorance

Education Act of 1944

what did the new education system raise the school leaving age to

15

when did children sit a test, rest of UK and Scotland

11 and 12

3 schools children would attend 1 of based on test result

grammar school, secondary school, technical school