Which UK Act, passed in 1930, abolished the workhouse system by transferring Poor Law duties to local county councils?
Long after Dickens skewered them in fiction, Britain's workhouses stubbornly survived into the 20th century. It took a specific piece of interwar legislation to finally dismantle the Poor Law infrastructure that had shamed the poor for nearly a century.
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