Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress 1905–1909

Edit links
Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

The Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress 1905–1909 was a body set up by the British Parliament in order to investigate how the

Charles Booth and Beatrice Webb
.

The Commission spent four years investigating and eventually produced two conflicting reports known as the

Liberal reforms
package.

The commission was set up by an outgoing Conservative government and was chaired by Lord George Hamilton.[1] The scale of the enquiry was considerable with huge volumes of documentary evidence collected.[1] Although the two reports produced came from opposing political ideologies, there was some common ground between them: namely, a consensus that the Poor Law should not continue in its current form, a desire to standardise provision, and a recognition of structural failure as an element of the problem of involuntary poverty.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c Englander, D., Poverty and Poor Law Reform in 19th Century Britain, 1834–1914, (1998)
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Royal_Commission_on_the_Poor_Laws_and_Relief_of_Distress_1905–1909&oldid=1180432468"