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Catalogue description Records of the Social Services Department and successors
| Reference: | Division within CO |
|---|---|
| Title: | Records of the Social Services Department and successors |
| Description: |
Contains records of the Social Services Department and successors relating to responsibilities for welfare, development and penal administration in the colonies. Correspondence of the departments are in CO 859 with registers in CO 965 |
| Date: | 1939-1966 |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Colonial Office, Colonial Development and Social Services Department, 1939-1944 Colonial Office, Social Service and Aden Department, 1962-1963 Colonial Office, Social Service Department, 1944-1962 Colonial Office, Social Services Department, 1938-1939 |
| Physical description: | 2 series |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
In 1938 a separate Social Services Department was established in the General Division, with responsibility for labour conditions, public health, education and housing. The following year it was renamed the Colonial Development and Social Services Department because it had responsibility for the work of the Colonial Development Advisory Committee. By the end of the war it was called the Social Service Department, by which time it was also responsible for penal administration. In 1962 the department's name was changed to Social Service and Aden Department and in 1963 the department was merged with the Economic General Department. |
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