The Beveridge Report

This book provides the definitive account of the making of the 1942 Beveridge Report and its influence on wartime and post-war social policy.

Derek Fraser is Emeritus Professor at the University of Teesside, where he served as Vice-Chancellor for 11 years.

0. Introduction: The Beveridge Report: Perspectives and Purposes 1. British Social Services Pre-Beveridge 2. Wartime Social Policy 3. The Beveridge Committee at Work 4.The Beveridge Report - The Evidence 5.The Beveridge Report - Composition and Content 6. The Beveridge Report - The Response 7.Planning for Welfare - Without Beveridge 8. Beveridge Mark II - "My Goodness My Beveridge" 9. Labour and the Creation of the Welfare State 10. Conclusion: Beveridge - The Legacy