What has Beveridge report got to do with evacuation of children during WW2?
the “Beveridge Report” “Social insurance and allied clauses” does not have anything to do with evacuation of children. Evacuation of children in Britain during WWII does have something to do with the acceptance of the proposals for health, education and social care proposed in Beveridge’s report. Evacuation of largely urban, largely poor children into rural areas exposed large parts of the more affluent population directly to those affected by poverty, and in a very personal way. The sense of shared hardship during the war, in which evacuation played a small, but important part, and the sense that Britain should be fighting *for* something, not just against Nazism (such as the influential film “Diary for Timothy”) contributed to an acceptance of the social reforms proposed by Beveridge and the creation of a post-war welfare state.
