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Miners' Welfare Act 1952, or of existing arrangements for the provision of benefits in kind,” in areas where the number of persons employed by the Board has fallen since the end of March 1965 as the consequence of colliery closures.” [133] Also under the Coal Industry Act of 1965 certain schemes allowed redundant men over 60 years of age to ...
An Act to amend the Colonial Development and Welfare Act 1959 [v] and to authorise the Minister of Overseas Development to meet expenses incurred in connection with the employment of persons in overseas territories, or in respect of compensation paid to persons who are or have been so employed.
A key date in the welfare state's history is 1563; when Queen Elizabeth I's government encouraged the wealthier members of society to give to the poor, [2] by passing the Poor Act 1562. The welfare state in the modern sense was anticipated by the Royal Commission into the Operation of the Poor Laws 1832 which found that the Poor Relief Act 1601 ...
But the truth is, as the Office for Budget Responsibility said in its Welfare Trends Report in October, that the reasons that spending on sickness benefits has risen so much – from 1.3 per cent ...
Welfare reforms are changes in the operation of a given welfare system aimed at improving the efficiency, equity, and administration of government assistance programs. . Reform programs may have a various aims; sometimes the focus is on reducing the number of individuals receiving government assistance and welfare system expenditure, and at other times reforms may aim to ensure greater ...
Such was the scale of Labour members' fury that Conservative welfare cuts were not being opposed, it is seen by many as the main reason that Jeremy Corbyn's longshot leadership campaign took off.
A history of British labour law: 1867-1945 (Hart Publishing, 2003) online. Bruce, Maurice. The Coming of the Welfare State (1966) online; Collinge, Peter, and Louise Falcini, eds. Providing for the Poor: The Old Poor Law, 1750–1834 (2022) online; Crowther, M. A. The Workhouse System 1834–1929: The history of an English social institution ...
An Act to consolidate the Factories Acts, 1937 to 1959, and certain other enactments relating to the safety, health and welfare of employed persons. Citation: 9 & 10 Eliz. 2. c. 34: Introduced by: David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir, Lord Chancellor, 28 March 1961 [1] Territorial extent England and Wales, Scotland [2] Dates; Royal assent ...