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Britain has never quite achieved its welfare state. A fair amount of foundation-laying and construction work was done by the 1945 Labour Government, but little further progress was made in the 1950s. During the sixties the half-built edifice became the victim of persistent sniping although no major frontal attack was mounted against the social services.
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A. B. Atkinson, Poverty in Britain and the Reform of Social Security (Cambridge, 1969 ).
M. Reddin, ‘Local Authority Means Tested Services’, in Social Services for All (London, 1968 ).
R. Skidelsky, Politicians and the Slump (London, 1967 ).
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Lapping, A. (1972). Social Welfare and Housing. In: McKie, D., Cook, C. (eds) The Decade of Disillusion: British Politics in the Sixties. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-01297-8_7
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