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Series
Home Office and Department of Health and Social Security: Children: General (G) Files
Catalogue reference: HO 361
What's it about?
HO 361
Files of the Inspectorate of the Children's Department mainly dealing with general and policy matters and relations with local authorities. They include inspection reports on some individual voluntary homes, statistical returns, copies of minutes...
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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HO 361
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Title (The name of the record)
- Home Office and Department of Health and Social Security: Children: General (G) Files
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Date (When the record was created)
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1948-1980
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Description (What the record is about)
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Files of the Inspectorate of the Children's Department mainly dealing with general and policy matters and relations with local authorities. They include inspection reports on some individual voluntary homes, statistical returns, copies of minutes of meetings of the Chief Inspector with Supervising Inspectors, and copies of minutes of the London Boroughs Children's Departments Regional Planning Committee.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Numbered files within the series were created by London Region (North); former references incorporating the letter C were created by London Region (Central), and those incorporating the letter S by London Region (South).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Department of Health and Social Security Children's Division files are in BN 74
Finance files of the Home Office and Department of Health and Social Security are in HO 362
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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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G 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)
- Home Office, D Division, 1913-1913
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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128 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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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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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The work of the Home Office Inspectorate passed, with the Children's Department, to the Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS) and the Welsh Office in January 1971. Following the consequent amalgamation of the Social Work Division of DHSS and the Inspectorate, the Social Services Inspectorate came into being.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9225/
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