NCW Policy Archive: Resolutions

SMOKING AND HEALTH, 1971 Submitted by: Stanmore Branch The National Council of Women in Conference assembled, concerned by the report of the Royal College of Physicians Smoking and Health Now (1971), which estimates the annual death rate due to smoking at 27,500 for...

FOOD HYGIENE, 1970 Submitted by: Health & Welfare Sectional Committee The National Council of Women of Great Britain, in Conference assembled, urges Her Majesty’s Government to reconsider the requirements of the Food Hygiene Regulations and amend Regulation 27 so...

PRESERVING OUR HERITAGE, 1970 Submitted by: Women’s Liberal Federation The National Council of Women of Great Britain in Conference assembled, deploring the disappearance of irreplaceable buildings and monuments of national, local, historical and architectural...

POLLUTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT, 1970 Submitted by: Sectional Committee for Scientific and Technology Information The National Council of Women in Conference assembled, greatly concerned at the harm done to our environment by ill usage and the possible ecological...

DANGEROUS HOUSEHOLD COMMODITIES, 1970 Submitted by: Midland Region The National Council of Women of Great Britain in Conference assembled, urges Her Majesty’s Government to introduce legislation requiring manufacturers and distributors of all domestic commodities...

PRE-SCHOOL AND PRIMARY EDUCATION, 1970 Submitted by: Grimsby & District Branch The National Council of Women in Conference assembled, recalling the Plowden Report, urges the Secretary of State for Education and Science to spend more money on non-profit making...

SCHOOL MANAGERS AND GOVERNORS, 1970 (Legislation passed but monitoring still necessary)  Submitted by: Education Special Committee The National Council of Women in Conference assembled, supports the recommendations of the Plowden Report that "School Managers should be...

THE POSITION OF WOMEN IN THE LAW, 1969 Submitted by: Committee of Management The National Council of Women of Great Britain in Conference assembled, urges Her Majesty’s Government to declare its acceptance of the principle of the complete equality of women with men...

DOMESTIC INCINERATORS, 1969 Submitted by: Housing Sectional Committee The National Council of Women in Conference assembled, bearing in mind the recommendations of the 1970 European Conservation Year, urges Her Majesty’s Minister of Housing and Local Government to...

DOMICILIARY PHYSIOTHERAPY, 1969  Submitted by: Chartered Society of Physiotherapy The National Council of Women in Conference assembled, perturbed by the lack of facilities for physiotherapy for house-bound patients, urges the Minister of Health and Social Security to...