Home Office: After-care (AFC Symbol Series) Files

HO 383

1949-1995

Files from the Home Office AFC (After-care) symbol series, which originated in 1964 when it replaced that part of the PBN (Probation) symbol series which dealt with after-care.

The After-Care Department reflected the extension of the probation service to include care of offenders when they had completed their term of probation. The files deal with the organisation of after-care, the records of the central bodies dealing with after-care, welfare arrangements and inspections of welfare arrangements of individual prisons.

The papers in this series are arranged in numerical order by departmental file number. The date following the AFC reference in the former reference column eg. AFC 64 indicates those files were originally registered as AFC 64 1/1/2 or AFC 64 1/1/4 etc, meaning that they were created in 1964. Unfortunately the system was not used properly and some files registered as AFC 64 were in fact created in the 1970s. Some files from 1964 have papers pre-dating the AFC series' beginning in 1964 - these are papers which were re-registered from PBN series files.

AFC Symbol file series

Public Record(s)

English

486 file(s)

Open unless otherwise stated

From 1996 Home Office

Topics

Prisons

Series is accruing.

From 1966 after-care hostels for homeless ex-offenders were set up by voluntary organisations with the aid of Home Office grants which supplemented finance from other sources. The list of hostels does not constitute a complete register; the selection is an indication of the range of needs met by the hostels to which grants were awarded.