The Unemployment Provisions of the 1911 National Insurance Act

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From Poverty to Social Exclusion: An Introduction to Social Policy

1. Outline and comment on the major Features of one of the following Liberal welfare reforms:

iv. Old Age Pensions

v. The 1906 and 1907 Education Acts

vi. The Unemployment Provisions of the 1911 National Insurance Act

The significance of the National Insurance Act of 1911was enhanced by the inclusion in Part II of a selective unemployment insurance scheme. The National Insurance Act 1911(Part II) aimed to prevent poverty resulting from unemployment by insuring workers against periods when they were out of work. The unemployment insurance scheme has been innovation at the time, and in one of the articles Churchill wrote in 1908 'the untrodden field'.

The National Insurance Act covering health (Part I) and unemployment (Part II) was the kingpin of the social policy of a Liberal Government. (Fraser et al: 2003/ p.188) Churchill and his advisers had been working on unemployment insurance scheme since 1908. Churchill relied on Beveridge and Llewellyn Smith, Permanent Secretary at the Board of Trade, to work out the details of an unemployment insurance scheme.

Beveridge had insisted in 1909 that 'the principles