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Committee of Inquiry into the Provision and Co-ordination of Services to the Family...
Catalogue reference: BN 91
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BN 91
Records of the Committee of Inquiry into the Provision and Co-ordination of Services to the Family of John George Auckland.The series includes records of the inquiry, public hearings, written submissions and drafts of the report.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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BN 91
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Title (The name of the record)
- Committee of Inquiry into the Provision and Co-ordination of Services to the Family of John George Auckland: Records
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Date (When the record was created)
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1975
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Description (What the record is about)
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Records of the Committee of Inquiry into the Provision and Co-ordination of Services to the Family of John George Auckland.
The series includes records of the inquiry, public hearings, written submissions and drafts of the report.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Committee of Inquiry into the Provision and Co-ordination of Services to the Family of John George Auckland, 1975-1975
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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21 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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In 2003 Department of Health
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
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Transferred to the Department of Health in 1988.
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Series is not accruing.
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
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Duplicates and press cuttings have been destroyed.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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In July 1974, J G Auckland killed his fifteen-month old daughter, having killed a previous infant daughter in June 1968. Following the trial in November 1974, the judge wrote to the Secretary of State for Social Services expressing his great concern that a man who had already been convicted of manslaughter of one of his children should have been allowed to take sole charge of three others.
As a consequence of this, in April 1975, the Secretary of State, Mrs Barbara Castle, appointed a committee of inquiry comprised of three members and a chairman, Paul Kennedy, QC. The Committee was required to inquire into and report on the provision and co-ordination of social services to the Auckland family by relevant local authorities and health services, and other persons or agencies.
Hearings of the committee were held in public during May, June and July 1975, in both London and Sheffield, and the committee's report was submitted to Mrs Castle in September of that year.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15432/
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Committee of Inquiry into the Provision and Co-ordination of Services to the Family of John George Auckland: Records