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Reference
(The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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EDG 4
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Title
(The name of the record)
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Employment Department Group: Skills Training Agency: Registered Files
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Date
(When the record was created)
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1983-1995
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Description
(What the record is about)
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The files in this series reflect the process of the transfer of the Skills Training Agency into the private sector.
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Arrangement
(Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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The series is arranged in file reference order within each transfer.
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Related material
(A cross-reference to other related records)
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See also
ET 21
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Held by
(Who holds the record)
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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)
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- Department for Education and Employment, 1995-2001
- Employment Department, The Training Agency, 1988-1991
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Physical description
(The amount and form of the record)
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58 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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from 2017 Department for Work and Pensions
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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
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Labour
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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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Employment Department Group 1988–1996; Department for Education 1996–2001; Department for Work and Pensions 2001-2017.
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Accumulation dates
(The dates the record was accumulated)
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1988 to 1990
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Accruals
(Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Series is accruing.
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Selection and destruction information
(Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
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Mixed series review, initial sift followed by file by file review. Selection and destruction as per OSP31 4.2.2.3 (social and industrial history for records relating to vocational training, particularly those closely related to the activities of the Department of Employment), and OSP31 5.1.27 (initiatives aimed at improving vocational training as part of the fight against increasing unemployment).
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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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An interim title of Training Agency was given to the organisation formerly known as the Training Commission, which was part of the Manpower Services Commission. It was disbanded in September 1988, when the Agency and its functions became directly responsible to the Secretary of State for Employment.
The White Paper 'Employment for the 1990s' in 1988 stated that the Skills Training Agency should move into the private sector. Skill centres nationwide were then established and sold as individual businesses.
There were 60 skill centres nationwide, providing training in crafts, technical and supervisory skills for private firms with government training schemes. They primarily offered training courses in Automotive, Computer and Office Technology, Construction, Customer Care and Quality Assurance, Electrical and Electronic, Fabrication and Welding, Health, Safety and Regulatory, Materials Handling, Mechanical Engineering, Pneumatics, Hydraulics and Robotics, Supervisory industries. The facilities varied from centre to centre, and included some mobile training. The Agency was not sold as a whole, but as individual businesses. The sale included property and the land.
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Record URL
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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16420519/
