Pioneered by Eleanor Rathbone, specified in the 1942 Beveridge Report, Family Allowances were introduced in a 1945 Act of Parliament and came into operation in 1946. It was the first time that a family received any payment for children. It has been the subject of political battles off and on ever since.
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Family allowances
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Eleanor Rathbone
Eleanor Rathbone, 1872-1946, pioneer of family allowances, lived here. Greate...
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Stratford Co-operative and Industrial Society Ltd
The picture shows the first premises of this organisation, before they moved in, at the corner of Falmouth Street and Maryland Street in Stratford.  Started by a group of men at Stratford Railway W...
1 memorial
1 memorial
Mr William Aviss
Trustee of the Putney Pest House Charity, 1862.
1 memorial
Circle 33 Housing Trust / Clarion Housing Group
In 1986 the Circle 33 Housing Trust and the New Islington and Hackney Housing Association jointly bought the site of the Royal Free Hospital in Islington to develop for housing. Housing Groups go ...
1 memorial
Eleanor Rathbone
Politician and social reformer. Born Eleanor Florence Rathbone at 14 Prince's Gardens, according to the ODNB, our trusted source; others say Liverpool. She made an extensive study of the position o...
2 memorials
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