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Home Office and Department of Health and Social Security: Approved Schools and Remand...
Catalogue reference: BN 62
What's it about?
BN 62
This series contains files relating to Home Office Children's Department and successors and successors inspectors' visits to approved schools and remand and voluntary homes run by local authorities and various voluntary bodies.General files deal...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- BN 62
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Title (The name of the record)
- Home Office and Department of Health and Social Security: Approved Schools and Remand and Voluntary Homes: Files (CHR Symbol Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1897-1990
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains files relating to Home Office Children's Department and successors and successors inspectors' visits to approved schools and remand and voluntary homes run by local authorities and various voluntary bodies.
General files deal with routine visits to the homes; full inspection files deal with all aspects in depth. Special visits were made to investigate unrest among staff and absconders, and cases of indecency.
Copies of the Approved Schools Bulletin are also included in the series.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
This series originated in the Home Office in 1949 when the system of registering files under a series of symbols (eg CHR) began to replace the older system whereby files were given a simple six-figure reference number.
The CHR file reference number includes a unique number for each school or home. From 1960 onwards, CHR symbol series files often have the year of creation of the file as the first numerical element of the file reference.
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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
For Home Office Children's Office files see MH 102
Records of approved schools etc. are in HO 349
Other inspectors' reports are in HO 366
Files about individual schools are in HO 360
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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)
- CHR Symbols 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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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 3554 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to closure for periods up to 100 years
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1987 Department of Health and Social Security
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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
- Welfare
- Children
- Sex and gender
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2995/
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