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This article refers to Britain's welfare provision after the 1601 Poor Law. For welfare programmes see Social security
After the passing of the Elizabethan Poor Law (1601), outdoor relief was that kind of poor relief where assistance was in the form of money, food, clothing or goods, given to alleviate poverty without the requirement that the recipient enter an institution.[1] In contrast, recipients of indoor relief were required to enter a workhouse or poorhouse. Outdoor relief was also a feature of the Scottish and Irish Poor Law systems.
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Poor Law Poor Laws by country England and Wales · Scotland · Ireland · Germany
Nantwich workhouseOld Poor Law Relief systems Indoor relief · Outdoor relief · Classification of the poor · Speenhamland · Labour Rate · Roundsman · Committee for the Relief of the Black Poor
New Poor Law Royal commission (1832) · Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 · Poor Law (Scotland) Act 1845 · Less eligibility · Workhouse · Workhouse test · Board of guardians · Outdoor Labour Test Order · Outdoor Relief Prohibitory Order · Poor Law Unions · Opposition · Book of Murder
Changes after 1834 Poor Law Commission · Poor Law Board · Local Government Board · Andover workhouse scandal · Huddersfield workhouse scandal · Union Chargeability Act
Decline and abolition Liberal welfare reforms · Royal commission (1905-09) · Majority Report · Minority Report · Interwar poverty · National Assistance Act 1948
Other Historiography of the Poor Laws · Timeline of the Poor Law system
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