Understanding Welfare Today from the Historical Path of the Policy

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Introduction
Caring for oneself and loved ones is imperative. Over the years, the UK government has initiated plans to ensure that the social welfare of its people is catered for through the organization of welfare delivery and social care services.
Since the institutionalization of social care and the organization of welfare in the post-war era, the nation has faced multiple changes in its social, political, and economic paradigms. Understanding welfare today should stem from the historical path of the policy.
Development of the Welfare State
The development of the UK welfare state was primary in the conversations on policy changes at the beginning of the post-war era.
Politician William Beveridge laid a 5-point plan that has since been used as the blueprint of the welfare state. The report was drafted in 1942. The social issues that needed to be addressed according to Beveridge included squalor, ignorance, want, idleness, and disease.
The Beveridge report implementation began immediately. Most of the changes were evident in legislative alterations. Some of those alterations included Family Allowances Act of 1945, National Insurance Act of 1946, the Town and Country Planning Act of 1947, the Children Act of 1948, and the Housing Act of 1949 among others.
Margaret Thatcher and Neoliberalism
Margaret Thatcher was the Prime Minister between 1979 and 1990. Her views on social welfare contravened, largely, the provisions of the Beveridge report. Thatcher was focused on economic recovery through neoliberal policies.
Thatcher focused on removing price restrictions, deregulating capital markets, cutting trade barriers" and reducing governmental intervention in the economy, particularly through privatization and austerity.
There was a notable widening of inequality in the developed state, save for New Zealand. The post-tax income of the top 10% of the population was 5 times that of the 10% bottom of the population in 1979.
Thatcher’s disregard to social welfare policy was evident further with increased poverty. Noted that poverty index rose from 13% to 43% between 1979 and 1997.
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