Catalogue description Home Office: Voluntary Services Unit (VSU Symbol Series) Files

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Details of HO 494
Reference: HO 494
Title: Home Office: Voluntary Services Unit (VSU Symbol Series) Files
Description:

This series deals with the role, contribution, functions and expansion of the voluntary sector and deals with a mix of operational and policy matters. It includes subjects such as committees set up to look into the role of the voluntary sector in the field of social services, community work and development, government support and review of funding of local projects, urban programmes, research into victims of crime, rehabilitation of drug users, race relations and support for displaced refugees from overseas.

Note: Pieces 1-74 will be transferred at a later date
Date: 1977-2003
Related material:

See also:

HO 389

HO 390

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: VSU Symbol Series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Home Office, Community Programmes and Equal Opportunities Department, 1977-

Physical description: 482 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2018 Home Office

Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

The Voluntary Services Unit was responsible for the co-ordination of government action in relation to voluntary services.

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