Editing Clara Collet (section)

== Civil service career ==
Collet joined the [[Civil Service (United Kingdom)|Civil Service]] and worked with the [[Board of Trade]] to introduce many reforms, including [[Timeline of State Pension age in the United Kingdom|the introduction of the Old Age Pension]] and [[Public employment service#United Kingdom|labour exchanges]] (employment bureaux). During these years she worked with well-known politicians such as [[David Lloyd George]], [[Ramsay MacDonald]], [[William Beveridge]] and [[Winston Churchill]].<ref>McDonald, Deborah, 'Clara Collet'</ref><ref>Diary of Clara Collet held at Warwick Modern Records Office</ref>

With the support of [[Charles Booth (social reformer)|Charles Booth]] she initially joined the civil service as Assistant Commissioner for the [[Royal Commission on Labour]]. In 1893 she secured a permanent post as Senior Investigator for Women's Industries at the Labour Department of the [[Board of Trade]]. Collet retired from the civil service in 1920 and became an active member of the [[Royal Economic Society]] and the [[Royal Statistical Society]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Poverty and Poor Law Reform in Nineteenth-Century Britain, 1834-1914: From Chadwick to Booth |last= Englander|first= David|year=2013 |publisher=Routledge |isbn= 9781317883210 }}</ref>