Records of the Technical Branch, the Further Education Branch, and the Youth ServiceED 1241939-1974Board of Education and successors: Further Education Branch and successors: Youth Welfare, General Registered Files (YW Series)
General policy files of the Board of Education and successors relating to various aspects of youth welfare following the assumption of direct responsibility for youth welfare services by the Board of Education on the dissolution of the National Fitness Council in October 1939.
The papers include official circulars, memoranda and publications as well as minutes and papers of the National Youth Committee, 1939 to 1942, its successor, the Youth Advisory Council and various other departmental and advisory committees. The series includes material relating to youth registration (1941-1945) and release from war service (1940-1941) training courses, juvenile delinquency and industrial welfare.
Three examples only of training course papers have been preserved.
A selection of earlier files for Wales are also included together with later files concerning Welsh Youth Organizations.