The History and Development of the Welfare State

Unit Title: The History
and Development of the
Welfare State

Content
Introduction
Political perspective
Labour party – 1945
New conservative government- 1970
Margaret Thatcher era- 1979- 1990
New labour- 1997- 2001
21st century
Conclusion
References

Introduction
The United Kingdom has seen the shift to welfare state over the past many decades.
The welfare state is the kind of government which works for its citizens to provide
economic security to them. In this, the government promote and protect the social
and economic well being of citizens which is based on the principles of the
equality in terms of wealth distribution and opportunity. This PPT shall cover the
impact of political perspective on the social policy and the delivery of welfare in
United Kingdom

Political Perspective
The government of any country plays a major role in delivering the welfare as it
involves coming up of such policies and strategies which promote the well being of the
citizens in terms of social and economic factors. The successive governments
squandered about billions of Marshall plans which support the world power pretensions
of Britain and also jeopardised economic future of the country.