National Committee for the Prevention of Destitution

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0097 COLL MISC 0862
Held at	: British Library of Political and Economic Science   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.lse.ac.uk/library ›
Full title	: National Committee for the Prevention of Destitution
Date(s)	: 1910-1911
Level of description	: collection
Extent	: 1 folder
Name of creator(s)	: National Committee for the Prevention of Destitution

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Formerly the National Committee for the Promotion of the Break Up of the Poor Law. Arthur Balfour (1848-1930), Prime Minister 1902-1905, set up a Royal Commission under Lord George Hamilton (1845-1927) to look into the Poor Law of 1832. The Act was considered to be too severe, it was no longer universally applied and was open to abuse. The Local Government Act of 1929 established a revised approach to the conditions of the poor.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers relating to the Royal Commission on the Poor Law, the Minority Report and the National Committee for the Prevention of Destitution, including a paper by Sidney Webb "Suggestions and Hypotheses".

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

OPEN

Conditions governing reproduction:

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Archival Information

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Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Output from CAIRS using template 14 and checked by hand on May 8, 2002

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Date(s) of descriptions:
8 May 2002