It created a new system, one in which need was accepted as a normal part of all British citizens social live. ("Social Policy," 2005) This guarantee of minimum standards included a minimum income for all Britans. ("The Welfare State, 2005).

             The United Kingdom became a unitary state in which central government substantially directed most government activities of social welfare policy, rather than leaving the enforcement of these policies to private industry. ("Social Policy in the United Kingdom," 2005) Welfare such as universal health care for all citizens was provided for the population as a whole, in the same way as public services like roads, and the school system was rendered more accessible to all, as students who distinguished themselves received government support for their educations. "In an institutional system, welfare is not just for the poor: it is for everyone." The Beveridge Report of 1942 proposed a system of National Insurance, based on three cornerstones, of equal family allowances, a national health service, and the goal of full employment-this created a new idea of natural human rights than had existed before in England, and settled the question of what constituted innate human rights for the next decades, until the event of Thatcherism in the 1980's. ("Social Policy in the United Kingdom," 2005) .

             Eventually, the Beveridge Report "became a major propaganda weapon, with both major parties committed to its introduction," because of its popularity. During the war, the coalition government had already committed itself to full employment through free universal secondary education, and the introduction of family allowances, and the right to public housing for all in the form of such innovations council flats as part of the war effort, but unlike the United States social welfare policies during World War II, the British government made a commitment to retaining this philosophy and these formal institutions even after the end of conflict.