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Series
Home Office: Racial Equality Unit: Registered Files (REU Symbol Series)
Catalogue reference: HO 627
What's it about?
HO 627
Records within this series relate to the promotion of race equality across government, policy on racial equality, criminal law on race, representing UK race equality in international fora (including UN and EU), sponsorship of the Commission for...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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HO 627
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Title (The name of the record)
- Home Office: Racial Equality Unit: Registered Files (REU Symbol Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1999-2000
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Description (What the record is about)
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Records within this series relate to the promotion of race equality across government, policy on racial equality, criminal law on race, representing UK race equality in international fora (including UN and EU), sponsorship of the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) and the Home Secretary's Race Relations Forum, Race Relations Grants (including the replacement of grants made under Section 11 of the Local Government Act 1966), religious discrimination and faith issues, the Kosovo Refugees Humanitarian Evacuation Programme and mainstreaming gender within the Home Office.
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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For race relations legislation see
For race relations & displaced refugees see
For racial disadvantage see
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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)
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REU
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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)
- Home Office; Racial Equality Unit, 1999-2004
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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1 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 2023 Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
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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)
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The files were transferred from the Home Office to the Department of Communities and Local Government after 2004
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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This 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 Race Equality Unit was formed in 1999 by being detached from the Community Relations Unit. It comprised of a Strategy Team, CRE Sponsorship Section, Racist Crime Section, Religious Issues Section, Grants Section, European, International and General Policy Section, Championship for Women Section and a unit for race relations and support for displaced overseas refugees. The latter used the VSU, VCU and VCD Prefixes which formed the HO 494 Series.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C17954955/
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