An Introduction to Social Policy: Principles Outlined in Beveridge Report and Comparison with Other Approaches

An Introduction to
Social Policy

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Main principles outlined in Beveridge........................................................................................3
Consensus politics.......................................................................................................................4
New Right and neo liberalism.....................................................................................................4
Third way approach.....................................................................................................................5
Coalition......................................................................................................................................6
Conservatives current policies....................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
The concept of welfare state can be defined as a structure under which the government
provides various services like, health, education, employment, give money to the needy who are
aged and facing certain health issues. These services are free of cost. This essay covers the
principles of the welfare state which are stated in Beveridge report and comparing it with the
other approaches of the welfare state(McCormack, and Dewing, 2019). It also includes various
matters of social concern such as the great depression and wall street crash and data related to the
issue of poverty. The situation of Great depression was considered as a severe economic
downswing in the year 1929, where the downfall in the prices of the shares crashed the whole
economy. The prices of the goods and services took a instant hike. There was no employment
generation in the country and poverty is rising its head in UK.
MAIN BODY
Main principles outlined in Beveridge
The Beveridge report is a work of William Beveridge who was an economist and
suggested the ways through which the structure of the welfare state can be established. The
report has discussed about the five giants that was proven to be the major issue for the country,
they are, want (due to poverty), disease(due to lack of medical care), idleness (due to
unemployment), squalor (due to poor shelter), ignorance(due to lack of awareness regarding
education). There are three main principles are suggested in order to bring the country into the
state of a welfare state, they are as follows, limiting sectional interests that means all the sections
of the society is subjected to the welfare, making social insurance a part of the welfare policies,
attaining the social security policies and measures in terms of assuring cooperation among the
subjects and the state. The report also contains recommendations on providing medical facilities
and social security(Ihara, 2019). It states that various charity groups and organizations that are
indulged in social services must renders a support for the medical treatments to those who are
unable to pay to the hospitals. In furtherance to this, two acts were introduced in the country in
order to apply the recommendations given by the Beveridge report, they are the National
Insurance Act, 1946 and the National Assistance Act,1948. Another act was constituted in the
year 1946, that is the National Health Service Act. The act benefited that section of the society