1. RECAP Write down a definition of the Welfare State.

2. What am I learning today? Challenges to the Welfare State. Changes in the Welfare State under the Conservatives in 1979-1991. Changes to the Welfare State by the ‘New Labour’ Government of 1997.

3. Copy the Following… The Welfare State is… …a system where the government takes on the main responsibility for providing social and economic security for the population through pensions, social security benefits, free health care, and free education.

4. 1.National Insurance- this is a deduction from all those who work. From an individual point of view, the government believed that nobody would object paying as they would have benefited from an early age. 2.Taxation-direct and indirect taxes. Where does the money come from for the NHS?

5. The Challenge to the Welfare State. High Unemployment Increase in Life Expectancy Changes in family life

6. The Thatcher Revolution 1970-1991 Individual rather than collective solutions

7. Collective Solution Individual Solution HousingCouncil Housing EducationState Schooling UnemploymentIndividual to take initiative PovertyState benefits/ pensions HealthNHS

8. Collective Solution Individual Solution HousingCouncil Housing Private Housing EducationState Schooling Independent and Private Education UnemploymentGovernment help Individual to take initiative PovertyState benefits/ pensions Private insurance and pensions HealthNHSPrivate medical insurance

9. NEW LABOUR AND THE WELFARE STATE ‘New Labour does not want to end the Welfare State but to modernise it’ ‘We will guarantee that people in need get decent support, but we expect that people who can, should help to provide for themselves. The best way out of poverty is work.’

10. WELFARE TO WORK End ‘dependency culture’ Get people out of the ‘poverty trap’ ‘Hand up not hand out’

11. POLICIES The New Deal: provide training schemes and jobs which provide wages that are higher than benefits. The National Minimum Wage: £6.19 an hour for workers aged 21 and over £4.98 an hour for workers aged 18 to 20 £3.68 an hour for workers aged 16 to 17

12. ACTIVITIES 1.Explain, in detail, two challenges that the Welfare State has faced. (43/44) 2.What changes did the Conservative Government make to the Welfare State? Give an example of individual and collective solutions (p.45) 3.What did Labour want to do to the Welfare State? (p.46) 4.Give two examples of New Labour initiatives (p47/48)