British Social Services

Archive Report

Welfare Issues in British National Politics

Problems of maintaining costly social services at their present level without impeding rearmament have become the center of a major political controversy in Great Britain. On the outcome of this controversy may depend the date of the next general election and the continuance in power of the present Labor government.

For Americans it is difficult to visualize social services as a national political issue. But in Great Britain it is natural that controversies about these services should be settled in a national election, both because the services affect every citizen every day and because they are so largely a national function.

The central government pays about two-thirds of the cost of all publicly supported education and the great bulk of the ...

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