... benefits. The Beveridge Report 'Social Insurance And Allied Services' Published in 1942, sought to address five giant 'evils': Want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness. With the introduction of contributory based benefits, subsistence level benefits, and child benefits provided under the National Insurance Act 1946, families who found that their income was reduced either due to lack of work or sickness would not have to suffer hardship. 'Squalor' was tackled with 'slum clearance' and an extensive and ambitious council house building scheme which provided 'Homes for hero's' in recognition of the services that had been given during the Second World War. In 1945 alone, Madgwick, Steeds and Williams (1982:37) state that over 200,000 council houses were built meaning that four out of five houses in Britain were council owned. The introduction of the NHS, the aim of full employment and an education system intended to be the best in the world meant ...

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