DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL POLICY

Development of Social Policy

Development of Social Policy

Introduction

William Henry Beveridge (March 5.1879 to 1963) was a British economist and social reformer. He is perhaps best known for his 1942 report Social Security and Allied Services (known as the Beveridge Report), which was the basis for the Welfare State after World War II Labor government, including especially the National Health Service (Rein 2003).

William Beveridge and the Welfare State

When, in 1941, the government commissioned a report on ways in which Britain should be rebuilt after the Second World War, Beveridge was an obvious choice to take over. He has published its ...