social policies

birth rate

Long term decline - change in the postion of women decline in the infant mortality rate, children are an economic asset, children centerdness

smaller families mean women are able to go to work

Death

Decrease in death rates improved nutrition, medical improvment, public health measures, enviromental improvement, social change,

life expectancy has improved

The welfare state 1945

Free universal health care NHS

secondary education for children

meritocratic society

1979-1997

End of consensus- Margaret Thatcher

Increase the individual role in family

cut state services and benefits cut child benefits by 1980s, continued to cut welfare spending, encouraged mothers to stay home

new labour 1997

third way to steer a path between old labour by spending more money to help welfare and new right approach