Catalogue description Department of Health and Social Security: Family Benefits, Registered Files (FP Series)

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Reference: BN 89
Title: Department of Health and Social Security: Family Benefits, Registered Files (FP Series)
Description:

This series contains papers relating to the development and administration of family benefits, including papers of the departmental Committee on One-Parent Families, chaired by Sir Morris Finer, QC.

Date: 1965-1987
Arrangement:

Former file reference

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

Department of Health and Social Security, Committee on One-Parent Families, 1969-1974

Physical description: 403 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 1999 Department of Social Security

Custodial history: Transferred to the Department of Social Security in 1988.
Accruals: Series is not accruing.
Administrative / biographical background:

The departmental Committee on One-Parent Families was appointed on 6 November 1969 to consider the implications of one-parent families on society. In its terms, it set out to examine the difficulties which one-parent families might encounter and the provisions and facilities available to these families under existing legislation.

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