How effectively did the Liberals help children, the old and the unemployed?

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How effectively did the Liberals help children, the old and the unemployed? 

Poverty was a big in problem in England around 1906, many politicians had stereotypical views and though the poor caused their own poverty/.  They believed that if the poor wanted to climb out of poverty they could easily by themselves, the government thought it was the job of the individuals and charities to help this.   Jobs were scare though and paid little, children were not fed properly and people were at risk in their own homes to dreadful diseases, the elderly had to rely on family to survive.  All of these people were living in appalling conditions of poverty and this wasn’t fair.  A man names Seebohm Rowntree recognised this and he was one of the first to raise the awareness of poverty to the politicians.  

Seebohm Rowntree investigated the causes of poverty and his findings showed that poverty was not always the fault of those it struck.  He uncovered statistics that 52% of poverty cases were due to large families; other problems were things like death of wage earner, illness, unemployment and low wages.  These findings woke up the government and made them realise that it was part of their role to help support the poor when they needed it most.  

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The first act in the welfare reforms that Liberals brought in was to-do with children.  In the end after several changes, it worked very well and provided healthy children.  Before the Liberal reforms the children no real help, some charities often assisted them but many children had no proper meals and medical care.  So the Liberals decided to begin with they would introduce the free school meals act, this was brought in to make sure that children received one proper meal a day however there were limitation to this and some local authorities chose to ignore this and in ...

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