what are the main features in development of the welfare state since 1945?

Question

i cant find any sites that offer a answer to the above question ...i need a sight where the information is clear and easy to read

Answer 1

A good beginning and 'building block' for the subject you have for your homework, is to look at the 'Beveridge Report.'
William Beveridge (1879 -–1963), who is said to have made the basis of a comprehensive welfare state, when he presented his report: Social Services and Allied Services (1942). Beveridge proposed to overcome the ‘five giant evils’ of Want, Disease, Squalor, Ignorance and Idleness. The main aspects of his report features an new national insurance scheme which covered all adults and provided sickness and unemployment benefits, old age pensions at sixty years of age for women and sixty five years of age for men; widows and orphans pensions, maternity allowances, death grants, and a National Industrial Injuries Insurance. Beveridge designed this system to protect every citizen from the cradle to the grave. He envisaged ‘…a civilised society in which none would be denied the necessities of education, health, work and decent housing. These social security arrangements provide evidence of an extension of New Liberalism elements. Although pre-war social services primarily provided for the poor. Beveridge introduced the principle of universality which set out to ensure that services to the poor would not be second rate. Beveridge, a liberal himself, saw influences from New Liberalism.
Questions to ask are: Is Beveridge's report relevant to today's society?...has it helped or improved poor peoples' situation? How has it developed?

Google dates and prime ministers from then onwards, including the words 'welfare state.' This should give you the information that you are looking for.
Good luck with the homework.
Feel free to email me if you get stuck, I will do my best to help you. :o)

Answer 2

If you need a sight (sic), then just "Google" it. Put in "National Health Service" and you will get comprehensive Wikipedia information on the subject. It doesn't get much clearer than that.