The story of
Britain’s youngest prisoner of war: John Giles Hipkin
14-year-old cabin boy John Giles Hipkin became Britain's youngest Second World War prisoner of war in 1941 after he was captured at sea.
Series
Home Office: Children's Department and Prison Department: Children and Young Offenders...
Catalogue reference: HO 416
What's it about?
HO 416
This series contains Children and Young Offenders files (CHN symbol series) of the Home Office Children's Department and Prison Department. From 1971 Home Office files in this series relate solely to policy on treatment of young offenders, and...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- HO 416
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Title (The name of the record)
- Home Office: Children's Department and Prison Department: Children and Young Offenders (CHN symbol series) files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1948-2003
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains Children and Young Offenders files (CHN symbol series) of the Home Office Children's Department and Prison Department.
From 1971 Home Office files in this series relate solely to policy on treatment of young offenders, and the records were created by the Prison Department from that time.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Files are in former reference order.
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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)
- CHN symbol 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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- Home Office, Childrens Department, 1949-1971
- Home Office, Prison Department, 1963-1963
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 167 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 2004 Home 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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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- CHN series was created by Children's Department. When the childcare functions of the Home Office were transferred to Department of Health and Social Security in 1971, most CHN files passed to DHSS. A few relating to the treatment of young offenders remained with the Home Office and continued to be used by the Prison Department.
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- File series ran from 1949
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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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 CHN series was used by the Home Office Children's Department which had responsibility for a wide range of issues relating to children, including guardianship, adoption, emigration, juvenile courts, remand and attendance centres. The Home Office passed the majority of responsibilities and files relating to the care of children to the Department of Health and Social Security in 1971. However the Home Office retained responsibility for policy in relation to the treatment of young offenders and the relevant CHN files continued to be used by the Prison Department. This series contains files in the CHN series which remained in use at the Home Office after the transfer of other CHN files to the DHSS.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16254/
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Home Office: Children's Department and Prison Department: Children and Young Offenders (CHN symbol series) files
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