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Department of Health: Committee on Mentally Abnormal Offenders: Registered Files
Catalogue reference: JA 663
What's it about?
JA 663
This series contains files relating to a review of the Mental Health Act 1959, including the Committee on Mentally Abnormal Offenders (Butler Committee), Home Office Criminal Law Revision Committee review of sex offenders, Forensic Psychiatry...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- JA 663
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Title (The name of the record)
- Department of Health: Committee on Mentally Abnormal Offenders: Registered Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1979-2010
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains files relating to a review of the Mental Health Act 1959, including the Committee on Mentally Abnormal Offenders (Butler Committee), Home Office Criminal Law Revision Committee review of sex offenders, Forensic Psychiatry Research Liaison Group, voting rights of people with 'mental disorders', research into prisoners with 'mental disorders', proposals for Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS) and Home Office collaboration and Prison Health Research Ethics Committee papers.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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This file series is arranged in file reference order
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Related files in File Office D MH154
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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)
- MHF, MHP, MHR, ILP, DGK, PYO, QSD, MHC, MDO, MIE, MIP, MIQ, MLE, MNL, MQA, MQB, MRW, OTI, OTM, SCMP, CII, DDM, HBM, HCR, HRE, MDO, and MHU 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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- Department of Health, 1988-1988
- Department of Health and Social Security, 1968-1988
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 590 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 2020 Department of Health and Social Care
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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
- Mental illness
- Prisons
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- MHF – Noted as in use by branch File Office 154 in 1994 according to CFR prefix closed Sept 2003
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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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Department of Health: Committee on Mentally Abnormal Offenders: Registered Files. This series contains files relating to a review of the Mental Health Act 1959, including the Committee on Mentally Abnormal Offenders (Butler Committee), Home Office Criminal Law Revision Committee review of sex offenders, Forensic Psychiatry Research Liaison Group, voting rights of people with 'mental disorders', research into prisoners with 'mental disorders' and proposals for Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS) and Home Office collaboration.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16954564/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
43,575 records
Within the department: JA
Records created or inherited by the Department of Health (1988-)
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Department of Health: Committee on Mentally Abnormal Offenders: Registered Files
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