Catalogue description Diplomatic Service Administration Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Personnel Departments: Registered Files (DSP and XP Series)

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Reference: FCO 79
Title: Diplomatic Service Administration Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Personnel Departments: Registered Files (DSP and XP Series)
Description:

This series contains Personnel Department files on Diplomatic Service personnel matters, including arrangements for the formation of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and FCO responses to the 1969 Duncan Report on Britain's overseas representation.
Date: 1966-1980
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: DSP and XP file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Diplomatic Service Administration Office, Personnel (General and Training) Department, 1967-1968

Diplomatic Service Administration Office, Personnel (Operations) Department, 1967-1968

Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Personnel (General and Training) Department, 1968-1969

Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Personnel Policy Department, 1969-

Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Personnel Services Department, 1969-

Foreign and Commonwealth, Personnel Operations Department, 1968-1992
Physical description: 550 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2001 Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Accumulation dates: File series began in 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 two Personnel Departments handled all personnel work for the Diplomatic Service, including the structure of the service, recruitment, training, conduct and discipline, appointments and postings, promotion and career planning and welfare matters.

On the formation of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in October 1968, the Diplomatic Service Administration Office was abolished, and the functions of the Personnel Departments passed directly to the new office. The work of the Personnel (General and Training) Department was split between the Personnel Policy Department and the Personnel Services Department in 1969.

The Personnel Operations Department continued until 1992, when its work involving career planning, postings, appointments and promotions passed to a Personnel Management Department.

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