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British Council: Joint Staff Committee: Proceedings
Catalogue reference: BW 134
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BW 134
Records of the proceedings of the Joint Staff Committee of the British Council, which consisted of representatives of management and the British Council Staff Association.The records comprise proceedings of the Management Side (BW 134/1-7) and...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- BW 134
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Title (The name of the record)
- British Council: Joint Staff Committee: Proceedings
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1948-1975
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Description (What the record is about)
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Records of the proceedings of the Joint Staff Committee of the British Council, which consisted of representatives of management and the British Council Staff Association.
The records comprise proceedings of the Management Side (BW 134/1-7) and the Staff Side (BW 134/8-12).
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- 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)
- British Council, Joint Staff Committee, 1948-1975
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 12 files and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure
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- Topics
- Litigation
- Labour
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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 British Council Staff Association was founded in 1948 in order to bring the views of the staff to official notice. Its main committees were Consultation and Arbitration (CONSARB) and Promotion and Recruitment (PROMREC) which reported back to the Joint Staff Committee.
The British Council Staff Association continued to work successfully until it handed over to the British Council Whitley Council on 1 January 1976.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3537/
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