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Britain’s youngest prisoner of war: John Giles Hipkin
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Series
Home Office and Department of Health and Social Security: Children's Division and...
Catalogue reference: BN 28
What's it about?
BN 28
Case papers and files of the Children's Branch and successors on the care and protection of a representative selection of individual children, some of whom were at approved schools.
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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BN 28
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Title (The name of the record)
- Home Office and Department of Health and Social Security: Children's Division and predecessors: Case Papers and Administrative School Records (CHN Symbol series)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1939-1980
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Description (What the record is about)
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Case papers and files of the Children's Branch and successors on the care and protection of a representative selection of individual children, some of whom were at approved schools.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Those case papers with a three or four digit former reference, or no former reference, are from the school indicated in the list; others are from the Home Office CHN symbol series of files.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Finance files of the Home Office and Department of Health and Social Security are in HO 362
Policy files in the Home Office six-figure file series will be found in MH 102
Records of approved schools etc. are in HO 349
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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In 1993 Children's Department case papers with a Department of Health and Social Security File Office LA (File Office Series) prefix were transferred from this series to
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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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CHN Symbol file series
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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 of Health and Social Security, Childrens Division, 1971-1985
- Home Office, Childrens Branch, 1924-1949
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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302 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Subject to closure for periods up to 100 years
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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
- Children
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2961/
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