Catalogue description Diplomatic Service Administration Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Establishment and Organisation Department and successors: Registered Files, Personnel and Establishment Matters (DSE and XE Series)

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Reference: FCO 77
Title: Diplomatic Service Administration Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Establishment and Organisation Department and successors: Registered Files, Personnel and Establishment Matters (DSE and XE Series)
Description:

This series contains files of the Establishment and Organisation Department on Diplomatic Service establishment and organisation matters, including arrangements for the formation of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. From 1969 the records are of the Personnel Policy and Personnel Services Departments.
Date: 1963-1980
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: DSE and XE file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Diplomatic Service Administration Office, Establishment and Organisation Department, 1967-1968

Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Establishment and Organisation Department, 1968-1969

Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Personnel Policy Department, 1969-

Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Personnel Services Department, 1969-
Physical description: 300 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2001 Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Accumulation dates: 1967-
Selection and destruction information: Records selected by the FCO under PRO supervision under section 2.2.1.3 of the PRO acquisition policy, dealing with the support of UK diplomatic activity overseas and the formation of FCO.
Accruals: Series is accruing.
Administrative / biographical background:

The Establishment and Organisation Department handled all policy and casework on home and overseas complements for the Diplomatic Service, pay and allowances, gradings and conditions of service, Whitley council procedure, superannuation and office organisation and management generally.

On the formation of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in October 1968, the Diplomatic Service Administration Office was abolished, and the functions of the Establishment and Organisation Department passed directly to the new Office. The work of the department passed to a Personnel Policy Department in 1969, with some elements of the work being done by the Personnel Services Department.

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