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Series
Diplomatic Service Administration Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Personnel...
Catalogue reference: FCO 79
What's it about?
FCO 79
This series contains Personnel Department files on Diplomatic Service personnel matters, including arrangements for the formation of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and FCO responses to the 1969 Duncan Report on Britain's overseas representation.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- FCO 79
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Title (The name of the record)
- Diplomatic Service Administration Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Personnel Departments: Registered Files (DSP and XP Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1964-1980
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains Personnel Department files on Diplomatic Service personnel matters, including arrangements for the formation of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and FCO responses to the 1969 Duncan Report on Britain's overseas representation.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- DSP and XP file series
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Diplomatic Service Administration Office, Personnel (General and Training) Department, 1967-1968
- Diplomatic Service Administration Office, Personnel (Operations) Department, 1967-1968
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Personnel (General and Training) Department, 1968-1969
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Personnel Policy Department, 1969-1969
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Personnel Services Department, 1969-1969
- Foreign and Commonwealth, Personnel Operations Department, 1968-1992
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 550 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2001 Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- International
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- File series began in 1967
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- Records selected by the FCO under PRO supervision under section 2.2.1.3 of the PRO acquisition policy, dealing with the support of UK diplomatic activity overseas and the formation of FCO.
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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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The two Personnel Departments handled all personnel work for the Diplomatic Service, including the structure of the service, recruitment, training, conduct and discipline, appointments and postings, promotion and career planning and welfare matters.
On the formation of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in October 1968, the Diplomatic Service Administration Office was abolished, and the functions of the Personnel Departments passed directly to the new office. The work of the Personnel (General and Training) Department was split between the Personnel Policy Department and the Personnel Services Department in 1969.
The Personnel Operations Department continued until 1992, when its work involving career planning, postings, appointments and promotions passed to a Personnel Management Department.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15621/
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