A Duty of Care: Britain Before and After Covid Hennessy Peter
A Duty of Care: Britain Before and After Covid Hennessy Peter The 'duty of care' which the state owes to its citizens is a phrase much used, but what has it actually meant in Britain historically? He…
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A Duty of Care: Britain Before and After Covid Hennessy Peter
The 'duty of care' which the state owes to its citizens is a phrase much used, but what has it actually meant in Britain historically? He looks back to Sir William Beveridge's classic identification of the 'five giants' against which society had to battle - want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness - and laid the foundations for the modern welfare state in his wartime report. And what should it mean in the future, once the immediate Covid crisis has passed?In A Duty of Care, Peter Hennessy divides post-war British history into BC (before covid) and AC (after covid).
He lays out the 'road to 2045' with 'a new Beveridge' to build a consensus for post-covid Britain with the ambition and on the scale that was achieved by the He examines the steady assault on the giants by successive post-war governments and asks what the comparable giants are now.
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