1. R. J. Wybrow, Britain Speaks Out, 1937–87 (1989) pp. 25–6
2. IEA, Choice in Welfare (1965) Appendix A
3. PEP, Family Needs and the Social Services (1961). The latter recorded: ‘the attitude of mothers towards the social services was enthusiastic rather than critical, but there was not much doubt that this attitude is governed by their enthusiasm for the health services’ (p. 39).
4. Beveridge commissioned Nuffield College, Oxford to survey public opinion towards the social services prior to the drafting of his Report. It found that reform of the health services was accorded top priority. See J. Harris, ‘Did British workers want the welfare state?’, in J. Winter (ed.), The Working Class in Modern British History (Cambridge, 1983) pp. 200–14.
5. For an explanation of changing middle-class attitudes, see P. Baldwin, The Politics of Social Solidarity (Cambridge 1990) ch. 1.