Who is widely known as the father

of Britain’s Welfare State ?...

William Beveridge

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Once destined for academia or the law, Beveridge found himself sidelined by Whitehall during WW2 and tasked with an obscure inquiry into social insurance. Yet from this modest post, he produced the Beveridge Report, a visionary plan to defeat five “Giant Evils”, which remains one of the most important social reforms in British history.