Catalogue description Ministry of Overseas Development and successors: Administrative and Social Affairs Department and Social Affairs Department: Registered Files (ASA Series)

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Reference: OD 62
Title: Ministry of Overseas Development and successors: Administrative and Social Affairs Department and Social Affairs Department: Registered Files (ASA Series)
Description:

This series consists of the registered files of the Administrative and Social Affairs Department and its successor, the Social Affairs Department. The files relate to policy and case work in the fields of administration, social affairs and rural development. Some files of the TR series of the Training Department were re-registered into the ASA series opened for the new department.
Date: 1969-1976
Arrangement:

Arrangement of these files is by former file reference within three yearly file cycle
Related material:

Earlier administrative services development records until November 1966, when responsibility passed to the Training Department are in OD 21
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: ASA file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Ministry of Overseas Development, Administrative and Social Affairs Department, 1970-1972

Ministry of Overseas Development, Social Affairs Department, 1974-1976

Overseas Development Administration, Administrative and Social Affairs Department, 1970-1972

Overseas Development Administration, Social Affairs Department, 1972-1974
Physical description: 88 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2001 Department for International Development
Accumulation dates: Series began in 1976
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

The Administrative and Social Affairs Department was set up in January 1970 to undertake policy and case work on providing aid to developing states in the fields of central and local administration, social affairs and rural development, work previously performed by the policy section of the Training Department. On 1 May 1972 the department was renamed the Social Affairs Department, responsibility for administration aid (which principally took the form of training) having passed to the geographical departments. Responsibility for rural development questions passed to a new Rural Development Department in April 1976, and this expanded to take on all the remaining work of the Social Affairs Department when it was abolished.

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