recap write down a definition of the welfare state
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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.TRANSCRIPT
RECAPWrite down a
definition of the Welfare State.
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.
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.
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?
The Challenge to the Welfare State.
High UnemploymentIncrease in Life
ExpectancyChanges in family
life
The Thatcher Revolution
1970-1991Individual rather than collective solutions
Collective Solution
Individual Solution
Housing Council Housing
Education State Schooling
Unemployment Individual to take initiative
Poverty State benefits/ pensions
Health NHS
Collective Solution
Individual Solution
Housing Council Housing
Private Housing
Education State Schooling
Independent and Private Education
Unemployment Government help
Individual to take initiative
Poverty State benefits/ pensions
Private insurance and pensions
Health NHS Private medical insurance
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.’
WELFARE TO WORK
End ‘dependency culture’
Get people out of the ‘poverty trap’‘Hand up not hand
out’
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
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)