An Introduction to Social Policy (Distinction Criteria)

INTRODUCTION TO
SOCIAL POLICY

Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
The Beveridge Report was the charter published in December 1942 by William
Beveridge which was officially called as Social Insurance and Allied Services, but with the
change of time it was popularly known as The Beveridge Report. The principle objectives of this
report were to bring and adopt certain changes by bringing an entire state and its citizen for the
common good. The report was aimed to initiate reforms considering the world's order at that
point of time and essential reforms were needed to set things right and improve the living
standards of people by reforming policies. Recommendations were made to the government in
this report in the form of objective resolutions that suggests the redevelopment of social services
including health in the society must be given with the focus on providing employment to people
under the legal framework (Grave 2022). The role of state was made more broadened and it was
proposed that the state should ensure social and financial security to its people. No person shall
be deprived of basic necessities. This report highlighted the five evil giants which needs to be
discarded from the society, they are Want, Disease, Ignorance, Squalor and Idleness. These
were the prime issues which prevailing in the society. Nevertheless, the government was too
concern about these social issues and they initiated a social programme by bringing new reforms
and changes in the society. In this essay all the relevant extract pertaining to Beveridge report
along with its founding principles of the welfare state and a comparison will be made with the
present welfare structure by considering the change in ideology along with relevant examples.
MAIN BODY
The founding principles of The Beveridge Report was to make a welfare state, wherein
the state is bound with certain responsibility and show commitment towards its people with the
view to provide social and economic security to its people by the virtue of their natural human
rights. Even the term Welfare State was first used during the world war two in United Kingdom.
The aftermath of world war two was deadly and the tyranny it left after war was inhuman, people
left in poverty and to cover all these issues comprehensively relating to poverty, death,
unemployment reforms were needed and through this report a plan of action was set to bring
social reform across the western Europe (Thane 2020).
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