The economist Sir William Beveridge gives details of his radical plans for economic and social reform in post-war Britain. He proposes major social changes on the basis that we need "the abolition ...

The first relates to the way that the benefits system evolved in the wake of the Beveridge report with low levels of working-age benefits supplemented by extra support for housing, children and ill ...

William Beveridge declared that those who cannot work should be maintained by public support. The condition, however, would be the “complete and permanent ...

William Beveridge's report published in 1942 has been seen as laying the foundations for the welfare state. Beveridge's papers are at LSE and this includes a wealth of materials which deal ...

In 1942, Sir William Beveridge, a prominent government economist, was commissioned to write a report on social policy to advise how Britain should rebuild after World War Two. In his report ...

Beveridge 2.0 by James Rattee/LSE In 1942 former LSE Director William Beveridge launched his blueprint for a British universal care system, ‘from the cradle to the grave.’ Some 75 years on, LSE ...