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Reference
(The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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ET 19
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Title
(The name of the record)
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Manpower Services Commission: Employment Service Division: Planning and Development, Special Employment Needs (File Series S)
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Date
(When the record was created)
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1962-2000
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Description
(What the record is about)
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The series contains files on the programme for special employment needs. The programme relates to those seriously disabled people who because of their handicaps are unable to meet the required standards for work in open industry, but who, under sheltered conditions, are able to maintain normal employment.
The aim is to ensure, by means of financial support to approved organisations, the provision of facilities to enable them to work under sheltered conditions and to help them where practicable to overcome their disabilities sufficiently to take their place in open employment
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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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Held by
(Who holds the record)
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The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference
(Former identifier given by the originating creator)
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File Series S
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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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- Manpower Services Commission, Employment Service Agency, 1974-1978
- Manpower Services Commission, Employment Service Division, 1978-1985
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Physical description
(The amount and form of the record)
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189 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 2011 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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Manpower Services Commission 1974–1988. Training Commission 1988. Department of Employment 1988-1995. Department for Education and Employment 1995–2001. Department for Work and Pensions 2001.
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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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This series meets TNA's Acquisition policy theme 2.2.1.5 Formulation and delivery of social policies, documenting the work of 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), OSP31 5.1.11 (records of the Manpower Services Commission relating to the policy determining changes) and OSP5 5.3.
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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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At the end of 1974, the Manpower Services Commission endorsed the Department of Employment's view, as expressed in the consultative document 'Sheltered employment for disabled people', that in order to promote effective progress the present system of dual responsibility for sheltered employment should be replaced by a single authority.
Although the Government decided against establishing a single authority, the Commission agreed to take over the Department of Employment's responsibilities for sheltered employment, as well as related policy development and the secretariat for the National Advisory Council for the Employment of Disabled people.
Responsibility was officially passed in July 1976, with management located within the Employment Services Division (referred to then as the Employment Services Agency).
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Record URL
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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16628/