1. Fighting giants Putting the Beveridge Report into action

2. Learning objectives In this lesson you will learn about The attack on the five giants, especially want Considering the purpose of a source

3. Background May 1945 – Germany surrenders and general election is called July 1945 – Labour comes to power with Clement Atlee as PM People did not trust the Conservatives but liked Churchill Beveridge Report 1942 – proposed huge changes in welfare provision Identified five Giants

4. The giants Ignorance Idleness Want Squalor Disease People liked the report and trusted Labour rather than the Conservatives to carry its recommendations out.

5. National Government changes 1942 – free milk and free school meals Education Act 1944 – restructured schooling (Grammar, Technical and Secondary Modern) and raised the leaving age to 15 Family Allowances Act 1945 – paid mothers 5 shillings a week per child Not introduced until August 1946 – Labour got the credit

6. Idleness Labour government introduced building schemes to provide work for returning soldiers Lots of rebuilding to after the damage caused by the war Building schools (1944 EA) and hospitals (NHS 1947)

7. Ignorance 1944 Education Act – tripartite system Raising the school leaving age to 15 1947 Education Act – free education for all up to the age of 15

8. Disease 1947 National Heath Service (NHS) Act – free medical, dental and eye care for all 1947 NHS Act – charges on prescriptions Charged people for using some NHS services Free inoculations for children

9. Squalor 1946 New Towns Act 17 new towns built in England and 4 enlarged 5 new towns in Scotland and one in Wales Huge local authority house building programme – by Sept 1948 750 000 new homes built (the same number destroyed during the war)

10. Want 1945 – Family Allowances Act 1946 National Insurance Act – workers paid just under 5 shillings to join scheme Employers also contribute In return govt provides unemployment, maternity and sickness benefit and pensions 1946 – National Assistance Act – abolished the Poor Law and provided assistance for the homeless, the disabled and the mentally ill