Division
Records of the Social Services Department and successors
Catalogue reference: Division within CO
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Division within CO
Contains records of the Social Services Department and successors relating to responsibilities for welfare, development and penal administration in the colonies.Correspondence of the departments are in CO 859 with registers in CO 965
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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Division within CO
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Title (The name of the record)
- Records of the Social Services Department and successors
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Date (When the record was created)
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1939-1966
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Description (What the record is about)
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Contains records of the Social Services Department and successors relating to responsibilities for welfare, development and penal administration in the colonies.
Correspondence of the departments are in CO 859 with registers in CO 965
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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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- Colonial Office, Colonial Development and Social Services Department, 1939-1944
- Colonial Office, Social Service and Aden Department, 1962-1963
- Colonial Office, Social Service Department, 1944-1962
- Colonial Office, Social Services Department, 1938-1939
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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2 series
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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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In 1938 a separate Social Services Department was established in the General Division, with responsibility for labour conditions, public health, education and housing. The following year it was renamed the Colonial Development and Social Services Department because it had responsibility for the work of the Colonial Development Advisory Committee. By the end of the war it was called the Social Service Department, by which time it was also responsible for penal administration. In 1962 the department's name was changed to Social Service and Aden Department and in 1963 the department was merged with the Economic General Department.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C442/
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Records of the Social Services Department and successors