ABSTRACT
No matter when or in what order the Acts are passed, it is virtually impossible to bring the social security scheme into operation by stages or to start it at all until the machine to work it has been created. Unemployment benefit under the existing scheme could be brought up to the new rates without difficulty; and children's allowances and industrial injury insurance, administered through improvised machinery, need not be long delayed. The civilian Ministry of National Insurance, whose daily work will be among the ordinary families of Britain, could do this job much more successfully Nor should the new Ministry operate in separation from other Ministries concerned with social service. The Cabinet should have a permanent committee on social services and social policy, including at least the Ministers of National Insurance, Health, Labour and Education, to ensure proper co-ordination and development of activities.
