Employment Department Group: Equal Opportunities Training: Registered Files

EDG 6

1987-2004

The files in this series show the work of the team that supported Ministers and promotes the activities of the Training and Enterprise Councils (TECs) and other bodies, including Government policies on equal opportunities, special training needs, including disabilities, inner cities and deprived areas and safe working practices for trainees and staff.

The series is arranged in file reference order within each transfer.

See also ET 21

Public Record(s)

English

• Department for Education and Employment, 1995-2001
• Department for Work and Pensions, 2001-2001
• Employment Department Group, Training Enterprise and Education Directorate (TEED), 1991-1994
• Employment Department, The Training Agency, 1988-1991

154 file(s)

Open unless otherwise stated

From 2017 Department for Work and Pensions

Topics

Labour

Employment Department Group 1988–1996; Department for Education 1996–2001; Department for Work and Pensions 2001-2017.

Files series began in 1988

Series is accruing

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).

The Training Enterprise and Education Directorate was part of the Employment Department Group. In 1996 the Department merged with the Department for Education to become the Department for Education and Employment (DfEE). In 2001 the employment functions transferred to the Department for Work and Pensions, with the Department for Education and Employment becoming the Department for Education and Skills (DfES).