English Poor Law Policy

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It had, as we have seen, been left to the Poor Law Commissioners to formulate their own policy, with the guidance of the Report of 1834. This policy is, during the ensuing thirt...

As we have already mentioned, the merging of the Poor Law Board in the newly established Local Government Board came about for reasons unconnected with the Poor Law, and it coin...

imprisonment in respect of any offence against any of his or her children; or (v.) a parent of the child is permanently bedridden or disabled, and is the inmate of a workhouse,...

and 1868 (29 & 30 Vic. c. 113, sec. 14, and 31 & 32 Vic. c. 122, sec. 23), enabling the Central Authority peremptorily to order the removal to a certified school of a child of n...

We have seen that between 1834 and 1847 the Central Authority settled down to a certain empirical policy as to the administration of relief, which was embodied, as regards workh...

The analysis of Poor Law Policy contained in the preceding chapters, and the comparative statement of principles to which it led, was made the subject of a report to the Royal C...

It is unnecessary for us even to refer to the disastrous chaos into which the Poor Law and its local administration had in 1832 fallen, or to the events which led up to the cele...

We have described how the Majority Report of the Royal Commission professedly accepts the "Principles of 1907," but attempts to graft them upon a new Destitution Authority, and...

It is unnecessary to attempt to summarise the policy of the Central Authority from 1847 to 1907, in the manner adopted for the inaugural period, 1835 to 1847. The policy of the...

We may now attempt to sum up the position as it presents itself, after the deliverance of the Royal Commission, to the statesman and to the public opinion of 1910.

THE LEGAL POSITION OF COLLECTIVE BARGAINING IN ENGLAND--THE BEARING OF INDUSTRIAL PARASITISM AND THE POLICY OF A NATIONAL MINIMUM ON THE FREE TRADE CONTROVERSY--SOME STATISTICS...

Memorandum by the Local Government Board as to the Local Authorities for Poor Law purposes and the Out-relief Orders in force at the end of the years 1847, 1871, 1906.

This kind of co-operation between voluntary agencies and the Poor Law, in the pecuniary relief of the same individual, is, as we need hardly point out, in direct contravention o...

The Able-bodied--National Uniformity--The Workhouse Test--The Labour Test--The modified Workhouse Test Order--The Test Workhouse--The Provision of Employment--The Farm Colony--V...

The Principles of 1907--The Plea for a Single Destitution Authority-- The Reversion to 1834--The mutual Incompatibility of the Proposals of the Majority Report--The Principle of...

The Able-bodied (i.) on Outdoor Relief, (ii.) in the Workhouse--Vagrants--Women--Children--The Sick--Persons of Unsound Mind--Defectives--The Aged and Infirm--Non-Residents--The...

The Departures from the Principles of 1834--The Principle of National Uniformity--The Principle of Less Eligibility--The Workhouse System--New Principles unknown in 1834--The Pr...