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Ministry of Overseas Development and successors: Administrative and Social Affairs...

Catalogue reference: OD 62

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OD 62

This series consists of the registered files of the Administrative and Social Affairs Department and its successor, the Social Affairs Department. The files relate to policy and case work in the fields of administration, social affairs and rural...

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Reference

OD 62

Title
Ministry of Overseas Development and successors: Administrative and Social Affairs Department and Social Affairs Department: Registered Files (ASA Series)
Date

1969-1976

Description

This series consists of the registered files of the Administrative and Social Affairs Department and its successor, the Social Affairs Department. The files relate to policy and case work in the fields of administration, social affairs and rural development. Some files of the TR series of the Training Department were re-registered into the ASA series opened for the new department.

Arrangement
Arrangement

Arrangement of these files is by former file reference within three yearly file cycle

Related material

Earlier administrative services development records until November 1966, when responsibility passed to the Training Department are in OD 21

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference

ASA file series

Legal status

Public Record(s)

Language

English

Creator(s)
  • Ministry of Overseas Development, Administrative and Social Affairs Department, 1970-1972
  • Ministry of Overseas Development, Social Affairs Department, 1974-1976
  • Overseas Development Administration, Administrative and Social Affairs Department, 1970-1972
  • Overseas Development Administration, Social Affairs Department, 1972-1974
Physical description

88 file(s)

Access conditions

Open

Immediate source of acquisition

From 2001 Department for International Development

Subjects
Topics
Aid and development
Accumulation dates

Series began in 1976

Accruals

Series is accruing

Administrative / biographical background

The Administrative and Social Affairs Department was set up in January 1970 to undertake policy and case work on providing aid to developing states in the fields of central and local administration, social affairs and rural development, work previously performed by the policy section of the Training Department. On 1 May 1972 the department was renamed the Social Affairs Department, responsibility for administration aid (which principally took the form of training) having passed to the geographical departments. Responsibility for rural development questions passed to a new Rural Development Department in April 1976, and this expanded to take on all the remaining work of the Social Affairs Department when it was abolished.

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15005/

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