Development of the Welfare State since Poor Law Amendment Act 1834
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This article discusses the development of the welfare state since the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834, including the introduction of workhouses, education and health acts, and the role of local government. It also covers the impact of scholars and socialists on public welfare and the changes in poor relief systems over time.
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Development of the Welfare State since Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 Course name: BSc (Hons) in Health and Social Care Cohort Module Code: HSO4002 Module Title: Social Policy Submission deadline Student ID Number
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1.Accordingtopoorlaw Amendment act 1834, this actwaslesseligiblein order to use independently. The poor law Amendment act 1834 are necessary to consideredworsethan previous act which became the government. Also, act is based on local parishes into poor law unions that areunder600locally electedboardsof Guardians. This is also ensured that the poor were housed in workhouses,clothedand fed. Further, there are law remainedon theprimary formofpoorreliefin Irelanduntilthe 1920s.Thisactis implementedfullrigours ofintendedsystemwere never applied in Northern industrialareas (ARMSTRONG, 2022). 2.Poor labourer outside by the policy that is become less eligible despite having as lot of people sickness. This is based on worker which is unemployment and orphans work-hours are increased by receiving meal that are made them to sick having indigestion. The women, men and children are living separately by allowing for spend a brief amount of time a week with parents. There were most of the children are workhouse were orphans by which everyone spelt in large dormitories. Also, children are survived the first year of infancy which may have been sent out of school that also run by poor law union. This is apprenticeships or arranged for teenage boys that could learns as trade and become less of burden to rate years 3.In1601,Englandwas experiencinganeconomic depressionandtherewas largescale of unemployment. QueenElizabethhas introduced new set of laws inordertomaintainthe developmentofthe Kingdome the English poor law. All these laws remained in force for more than 250 yearsandithasdivided people on three bases such as vagrant, unemployed and involuntary.Althoughthe lawhasestablishedlocal governmentactingthrough anoverseerofthepoor appointed by local official. The poor laws have allowed localgovernmenttoraise taxes as needed and use the capital in maintaining alms- housestoprovideindoor reliefforoldage, handicappedaswellas makinguseoftoolsand material require to put the unemployed to work. 4. The old poor laws were implementedduringthe year of 1750-1850 and at thisstagetherewas growing,immigrationand urbanization.Although PublicHealthActwas responsible for any medical advising by General board. Moreover,theLocal government act 1871-1929 wasnotinvolvedin growing and developing the economyaswellasin providinggoodcondition for the welfare of citizens. Theactgivestherewere manycharitable organizationssuchan OctaviahillandPeabody etc(Moseley,2021).The local government act 1972 hasrecognizedsystemof administrativecountries like wales and England. It has created a metropolitan countryofGreater Manchesteranddivided into metropolitan including the city of Manchester 5. Inadditiontothis,the educationact1872was establishedtogive compulsoryeducationfor children age between 12 to 14andtogivethem opportunityoftrainingso thatitcandeveloptheir knowledgeandableto enhancetheircareer.The actallowedvoluntary schools to establish system of school boards to build andmanageeducational institutional in areas where it needed.
6. TheHealthActwas introducedin19centuries because of poor law as there were limited health care centre and this act has introduced the charitable work and voluntary help to the sick people in order to give the good quality of life andittofulfilthe responsibility of welfare state. 7. Moreover,scholarsand socialistsuchasCharles Booth 1892 and Seebohm Rowntree 1901 during this periodhasintroducedthe conceptofdeveloping premises for public welfare as majority of citizens were unemployedanditwas affectingeconomyofthe country (West, 2022). 8. Although the new poor law amendment act 1834 has overruled the system of providing support to the poor in August 1834. The Act grouped local people into creating Poor law unions under which 600 people were locally elected by Boards of Guardians. Moreover, it was controlled by the Poor law commission act that was responsible for administrating new system of providing relief to the poor 9. Outdoor relief was also given to the person that was unable to work because of their old age or incapability. Workhousehasprovided support to sick, mentally ill and unmarried mothers by giving them opportunity to work good. 10. .Thepoorlaw commissionwasreplaced by the poor law board in 1847 with the intention of improving accountability to parliament.Workhouses andBoardsofGuardians was abolished in 1903 by Local government Act 1929 andtheirpowersand responsibilitywerepassed tolocalandnational government bodies. Bibliography Lund, B., Greener, I. and Powell, M., 2022. The Beveridge report 80 years on:‘Squalor’and housing—‘A true goliath’.Social Policy & Administration.56(2). pp.284-298. Miller, A., 2020.The Introduction and Operation of the New Poor Law in Suffolk 1834-70(Doctoral dissertation, University of Essex). Moseley, K. L., 2021. From Beveridge Britain to Birds Eye Britain: shaping knowledge about ‘healthy eating’in the mid-to-late twentieth- century.Contemporary British History.35(4). pp.515-544. Ritch, A., 2019.Sickness in the Workhouse: Poor Law Medical Care in Provincial England, 1834-1914(Vol. 48). Rochester Studies in Medical H.
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