Memorandum on the Beveridge Report
1943-02 1943 1940s 28 pages THE BEVERIDGE REPORT The Communist Party's Memorandum The Report of Sir Wm. Beveridge on "Social Insurance and Allied Services" has been before the public for three months and has been the theme of exhaustive discussion. A few days after its p...
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| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
| Language: | English English |
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London : Communist Party of Great Britain
February 1943
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1943
1940s
28 pages
THE BEVERIDGE REPORT The Communist Party's Memorandum The Report of Sir Wm. Beveridge on "Social Insurance and Allied Services" has been before the public for three months and has been the theme of exhaustive discussion. A few days after its publication the Communist Party declared that "these proposals if carried out would be a big progressive step forward." At the same time we insisted that it would probably be necessary, on the basis of a full study of the Report, to put forward certain detailed amendments. We submit these amendments, knowing that the Beveridge Plan must, if it is to come into effect in 1945, pass through the House of Commons this year. We see it not as a plan for improved social services such as might be approved by a Socialist or Communist Government, but as a plan which the British people can reasonably insist on the present coalition Government adopting. In approaching this plan we note that its emphasis is on the family and not on the single man and woman. This is the natural conclusion to be drawn from the growing number of old people in the population and the need for taking steps to encourage larger families. That is why the greatest improvements which the scheme will make, in contrast to the existing social services, will be in the case of families with dependent children. THE NEW FEATURES We appreciate that it would be wrong to look at the Beveridge Proposals through the distorting lens of any past experience, viewing it only as a scheme for improved unemployment benefits missing the important new features of the plan. 7
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