there. Kent County pilot Authorised Caravan Park The first Traveller caravan park resembling what today is called a halting site was in Kent in England. It mainly came about as a result of changes in social policy in Britain. The 1942 report Social Insurance and Allied Services (also known as the Beveridge Report) served as the basis for the post-World War II welfare state put in place by the Labour government elected in 1945. The Beveridge Report identified five "Giant Evils" in society: squalor, ignorance, want, idleness and disease. A pilot scheme was introduced in Kent County in 1951 to provide a planned and equipped area for gypsies and travellers to reside instead of the unsuitable winter camping sites used previously. The site, called Chilmington Gypsy and Traveller Site, was developed approximately a mile from the village of Great Chart, which is located from the town of Ashford in Kent. The features of Chilmington Site included Electricity Halting bays for 12 caravans Supply of clean, potable water piped in from the mains Toilets and bathing facilities for each family unit An area of pasture and stables for horses Storage sheds Parking area for motorised vehicles drainage infrastructure, to prevent accumulation of surface runoff Sanitary plumbing for controlled expulsion of effluent waste from the residences and the stables Tarmacadamed and concrete surfaces Security in the form of a stout perimeter fence ensuring access and exit was contained to one point One of the residents was appointed as caretaker of the site On conclusion of the Chilmington Site pilot scheme the British Ministry of Housing and Local Government adopted as policy the construction of purpose-build Gypsy and Traveller Sites in every municipal area in the country. The policy was promoted as an alternative to the ad hoc approach used hitherto of officials "moving people off one unauthorised site and leaving them to find another one". Chilmington Gypsy Site has expanded over the intervening decades in line with the expansion of Ashford itself. The Irish Commission on Itinerancy Similar to how the Beveridge Report in Britain inspired a change in social policy there, in Ireland there was a change in government approach from non-intervention. The changes were generally reflective of a paradigm shift in the Western hemisphere on the government's role in society and economy. Beginning in the late 1950s, the National Economic and Social Council (a government-appointed advisory body) produced a series