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What prompted the Welfare Reforms of the Liberal Government between 1906-1914?
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What prompted the Welfare Reforms of the Liberal Government between 1906-1914? In the period of 1906-1914, social reform acts were past in parliament by the Liberal government under Herbert Asquith PM, Lloyd-George MP and Winston Churchill MP. These acts laid the foundations for a basic welfare state to which our current welfare state was built up from. The acts provided basic support for mothers and children, the old, sick and the unemployed. These changes have been considered very radical considering they took place in Victorian England. There are many issues to examine when asking the question of what prompted the Welfare Reform Acts of the Liberal Government. Prior to the 1900s, the general consensus on impoverished people was that they were in poverty because they were lazy and hence worthless. People did not seem eager for social reform to help the poor people because they were regarded as having got themselves...
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