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| Published date | 01 March 1947 |
| Date | 01 March 1947 |
| DOI | 10.1177/026455054700500817 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
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NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
PENSIONS (INCREASE) ACT
OF MATERNITY AND
The Pensions (Increase) Act, 1947, provides for increases
in the limits to, and the rates of, pensions increase under
CHILD WELFARE CENTRES
the 1944 Act, and provides for the continuance of the
former Act.
The National Association of Maternity and Child Wel-
The following increases now become operative:
fare Centres and for the Prevention of Infant Mortality
Where a pensioner is married or has at least one
held an all-day Conference at Friends House, Euston
dependant-
Road, London, on January 30th, 1947, to discuss the
(a) if the pension does not exceed £ 100 a year, the
question of the teaching of Parentcraft and Homecraft,
authorised increase shall be 40 per cent. of the
as set out in the Ministry of Education Circular 117.
amount of the pension;
Between four and five hundred delegates and repre-
(b) if the pension exceeds £ 100 a year but does not
sentatives from Public Health and Education Authorities,
exceed £ 143 6s. 8d. a year, the authorised in-
County and Borough Councils and Welfare Societies and
crease shall be the amount of £40 a year;
Associations, including N.A.P.O., were present.
(c) if the pension exceeds £ 133 6s. 8d. a year but does
The Chairman of the morning session was Miss Myra
not exceed £ 200 a year, the authorised increase
Curtis, C.B.E., and in the afternoon, Sir Wilson Jameson,
shall be 30 per cent. of the amount of the pension;
K.C.B., M.D., F.R.C.P., Chief Medical Officers of the
(d) if the pension exceeds £200 a year but does not
Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Education, chaired
exceed £390 a year, the authorised increase shall
the meeting.
be the amount which is necessary to increase the
Four speakers, each of whom took the subjects from a
pension to £ 450 a year.
different angle, addressed the Conference. The two most
outstanding
Where a
were Dr. Leslie Housden, O.B.E., who spoke
pensioner is
unmarried and has no
on &dquo;The Need and Scope of...
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