Figures and Tables | p. ix |
Acknowledgements | p. x |
1 The British Welfare State: Origins and Myths | p. 1 |
Origins | p. 1 |
The Basic Principles of the 1940s Welfare State | p. 5 |
The Myths | p. 8 |
A Re-evaluation | p. 18 |
2 Beveridge: Founding Father? | p. 20 |
Beveridge: the Man | p. 21 |
The Ambition: a New Britain | p. 23 |
The Report: Radical, but did it add up? | p. 28 |
The Report's Main Proposals | p. 36 |
The Rejection of Beveridge? | p. 39 |
Family Allowances | p. 41 |
An Unsound Foundation | p. 42 |
3 The Right to Health, Knowledge, Food, Shelter and Work, 1945-51 | p. 44 |
Citizenship Rights? | p. 44 |
A National Health Service Created | p. 46 |
The New National Health Service | p. 53 |
Education For All | p. 55 |
The 1944 Education Act | p. 60 |
Labour's Policy | p. 60 |
Children | p. 63 |
Food Rationing | p. 64 |
Shelter | p. 65 |
Jobs for All | p. 58 |
Services for Citizens? | p. 68 |
4 The New Conservatism and Social Policy, 1951-64 | p. 71 |
Back to the Drawing Board | p. 72 |
Trying to Contain the Welfare State | p. 76 |
Inflation and Full Employment - an Early Warning | p. 81 |
Social Services: Wasted Years? | p. 82 |
Conservative Achievements | p. 95 |
5 Completing the Post-war Agenda 1964-76, Part One: the Poor and the Poorest | p. 97 |
An Old Agenda | p. 97 |
What is New? | p. 98 |
Social Policy Moves Centre Stage | p. 99 |
Reforming Beveridge | p. 104 |
Labour Comes to Power | p. 107 |
Conservatives Reverse Engines, 1970 | p. 112 |
Labour Tries Again | p. 114 |
Child Poverty Again | p. 115 |
Balance Sheet So Far | p. 120 |
6 Completing the Post-war Agenda 1964-76, Part Two: from Equal Access to Equality? | p. 123 |
Health Care | p. 123 |
Social Work | p. 127 |
NHS Reform Again | p. 131 |
Education and the Pursuit of Equality | p. 134 |
Housing | p. 142 |
Race Relations | p. 146 |
Equal Pay | p. 149 |
7 Morality, Family and the State: the Legacy of the Sixties | p. 152 |
Homosexual Law Reform | p. 154 |
Abortion | p. 157 |
Divorce | p. 159 |
Lone Parents | p. 162 |
Domestic Violence | p. 164 |
Sex Education | p. 166 |
8 The Party Over, 1976-88 | p. 168 |
Labour 1976-9: Cuts and Fag Ends | p. 176 |
Containment, Continuity and Tentative Change, 1979-88 | p. 178 |
Social Security Reform | p. 180 |
SERPS | p. 184 |
Housing Reform | p. 187 |
Continuities | p. 189 |
9 New Directions, 1988-97 | p. 191 |
A Radical Manifesto | p. 192 |
Housing Choice | p. 195 |
Standards in Education | p. 198 |
Student Loans | p. 201 |
A Poll Tax | p. 202 |
Health Service Reform | p. 203 |
Community Care | p. 207 |
Another 'Fundamental' Review | p. 209 |
Taxation | p. 210 |
Majorism | p. 212 |
The State and the Family | p. 213 |
Lone Mothers | p. 214 |
Children | p. 219 |
The End of an Era | p. 221 |
10 Sixty Years On | p. 222 |
A New Start? | p. 222 |
Institutional Change and its Sources | p. 224 |
A Dual Premiership? | p. 224 |
Changed Economic Circumstances | p. 225 |
Devolution | p. 227 |
Changing Families | p. 228 |
Welfare Reform | p. 230 |
Teenage Pregnancy | p. 240 |
Children at Risk | p. 240 |
Institutional Reform: From Monopoly to Diversity and Choice | p. 242 |
Ageing and Pensions | p. 256 |
Housing and Urban Policy | p. 263 |
Inequality: Turning the Tide? | p. 265 |
Sixty Years On | p. 272 |
Appendix Social Policy Ministries and Ministers 1940-2006 | p. 275 |
Bibliography | p. 281 |
Index | p. 305 |