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Series
Home Office and Department of Health and Social Security: Children (CHN Symbol Series)...
Catalogue reference: BN 29
What's it about?
BN 29
This series includes Home Office and Department of Health and Social Security policy files on the adoption and detention of children, children in care and after-care and hostel arrangements, the child care inspectorate and the training of child...
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 29
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Title (The name of the record)
- Home Office and Department of Health and Social Security: Children (CHN Symbol Series) Files
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Date (When the record was created)
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1935-1992
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series includes Home Office and Department of Health and Social Security policy files on the adoption and detention of children, children in care and after-care and hostel arrangements, the child care inspectorate and the training of child care staff (including minutes and papers of the Central Training Council and of the Advisory Council in Child Care, the Standing Advisory Committee on Juvenile Delinquency, the Advisory Council on the Treatment of Offenders and of the National Nursery Examination Board).
The series also contains papers on statistics, adoption bill papers, papers relating to the Children and Young persons Bill (1968) and Act (1969), and papers of the General Council in Child Care conferences, and minutes of meetings.
There are files on legislation and London government reorganisation relating to children in care. There are also circulars issued by the children's department and files on central and local administration.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The Home Office CHN (Children) series originated in 1949 when the system of registering files under a series of symbols (eg CHN) began to replace the older system whereby files were given a simple six figure reference number.
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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 MH 102 MH 109
Records of approved schools etc. are in HO 349
For Home Office files relating to children 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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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, 1988-1988
- Department of Health and Social Security, Child Care Division, 1985-1987
- Department of Health and Social Security, Children, Maternity and Prevention Division, 1987-1988
- Department of Health and Social Security, Childrens Division, 1971-1985
- Home Office, Childrens Branch, 1924-1949
- Home Office, Childrens Department, 1949-1971
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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2977 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 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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in 2001 Department of Health
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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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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Series is accruing
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2962/
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