Together these services are renowned as the 'big five' but these services are inclined to develop over time and have differed in amount, accessibility and quality. Provision and development can change due to communal, financial and political factors (Spicker, 1995,p. 3). State provision of welfare has a long annals, in Britain for example going out with back to the Elizabethan Poor Laws and earlier. Welfare states begun to evolve when reviews of scarcity by persons such as Charles Booth showed the inadequacy of welfare provisions that could not ...