Social reform
Found in 316 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), 29 Oct 1926
Cabinet memorandum by the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries [Walter Guinness, later Lord Moyne] on unemployment insurance for agricultural workers. Sent with CHAR 2/167/52.
(Untitled), Apr 1929
Circular letter from Dorothy, Lady Lawrence, chairman of the executive committee of the National Society of Day Nurseries (117 Piccadilly, [London]) asking whether the recipients will bring the work of the Society to the attention of electors in their constituencies.
(Untitled), 16 Dec 1929
"Parliamentary Debates" in the House of Commons, including discussion of the Unemployment Insurance (No 2) Bill.
(Untitled), 21 Mar 1943
(Untitled), [1910]
Letter from WSC (Home Office) to the Cabinet enclosing a report of an address on the feeble-minded [see CHAR 12/1/3] delivered in May 1909 by Dr A F Tredgold (one of the medical advisors to the Royal Commission on the feeble-minded). The report is recommended by WSC as it summarises the "serious problem to be faced" which is the subject of a draft Bill.
(Untitled), 1909 - 1910
(Untitled), 05 Sep 1910
Letter from Sir Hubert Llewellyn-Smith [Permanent Secretary, Board of Trade] (Board of Trade) to [WSC] covering various issues including; the reception given to his speech on unemployment insurance; his opinion of proposals by the Chancellor of the Exchequer [David Lloyd George] to combine legislation on unemployment and invalidity insurance; and consideration of suggestions for altering the law on imprisonment for debt. Signed manuscript.
(Untitled), 23 Oct 1910
Letter from Richard Haldane [Secretary of State for War] (28, Queen Anne's Gate, Westminster [London]) to WSC expressing his agreement with WSC's plans for prison reform and treatment of tramps (with special provision for those who may be converted into "industrious citizens") and saying that these measures might be well-suited to the 1911 Parliamentary session. Signed manuscript annotated "public".
(Untitled), 15 Mar [1916]
Report of the fortieth meeting of the Government Committee on the Prevention and Relief of Distress. Two typescript copies.
(Untitled), 02 Feb [1916]
Report of the thirty-ninth meeting of the Government Committee on the Prevention and Relief of Distress.
(Untitled), 09 Mar 1910
Letter from George Barnes (House of Commons) to WSC asking him to use his influence to get a day set apart for the introduction of the Unemployment Insurance Bill.
(Untitled), 14 Sep 1925
(Untitled), 13 Dec 1907
(Untitled), 04 Jan 1908
Letter from WSC (General's House, Cairo, [Egypt]) to Arthur Wilson-Fox [Comptroller-General of the Commercial, Labour and Statistical Department of the Board of Trade] asking for his views on a comparison of the British and German social security systems and the need in Britain for state provision to be made for those who are not part of the current largely voluntary system. Copy in the hand of Edward Marsh.
(Untitled), 24 Jan 1908
Letter from T C Horsfall (Swanscoe Park, near Macclesfield, [Cheshire]) to WSC arguing that medical insurance has proved more useful to the working class in Germany than old age pensions.
(Untitled), 20 Feb 1908
Letter from Ivor Guest [later Lord Ashby St Ledgers and Lord Wimborne (2nd baron, 1st viscount)] (Ashby St Ledgers, Rugby, [Warwickshire]) to WSC on: the commission on afforestation; the chance of WSC getting into the Cabinet as a result of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's illness; the Licensing Bill; the Coal Mines (Eight Hours) Bill; land valuation; the need for parliamentary consideration of the Poor Law and for old age pensions to form part of a general scheme for dealing with poverty.
(Untitled), 13 May 1908
Letter from Sidney Webb [later Lord Passfield] (41 Grosvenor Road, Westminster Embankment, [London]) to WSC enclosing his scheme of Poor Law reform [not present] for use in the consideration of the old age pension scheme, and evidence taken before the Poor Law Commission relating to unemployment.
(Untitled), [Aug 1904]
Letter from WSC (Salisbury Hall, St Albans, [Hertfordshire]) to [F G Stokes] pointing out that Free Trade has not prevented the growth of the British Empire or made the people less war-like, although at home the contentment produced by cheap food has weakened the impulse towards social reform. Copy in the hand of WSC.
(Untitled), 26 Dec 1908
(Untitled), 29 Dec 1908
(Untitled), 1909
The care of the children, being chapter IV. of part I. of the minority report of the Poor Law Commission. Printed for the National Committee to Promote the Break-up of the Poor Law [4, 137-211, [3]p].
(Untitled), 1909
Birth and infancy, being chapter III. of part I. of the minority report of the Poor Law Commission. Printed for the National Committee to Promote the Break-up of the Poor Law [5, 85-135, [3]p].
(Untitled), 1909
The new charter of the poor, being an explanation of what is meant by the break-up of the Poor Law, and an outline of the proposals of the minority report of the Poor Law Commission. Printed for the National Committee to Promote the Break-up of the Poor Law [2, 23, [3]p].
(Untitled), [1909]
Printed statement of aims and membership application form of the the National Committee to Promote the Break-up of the Poor Law.
(Untitled), [1909]
Printed description of the research department and subscription application form of the National Committee to Promote the Break-up of the Poor Law.