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Catalogue description Manpower Services Commission: Employment Services Division: Planning and Development, Disabled Persons (File Series D)
| Reference: | ET 18 |
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| Title: | Manpower Services Commission: Employment Services Division: Planning and Development, Disabled Persons (File Series D) |
| Description: |
This series contains files of the Manpower Services Commission, Employment Services Division, Planning and Development, Disabled Persons. The records conmprise policy files covering the work of the Commission in promoting and improving the employment prospects of disabled persons. |
| Date: | 1945-1999 |
| Arrangement: |
The series is arranged in file reference order (within each transfer) |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Former reference in its original department: | File Series D |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Manpower Services Commission, Employment Service Agency, 1974-1978 Manpower Services Commission, Employment Service Division, 1978-1985 |
| Physical description: | 345 file(s) |
| Access conditions: | Open unless otherwise stated |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
From 2013 Department for Work and Pensions |
| Custodial history: | Manpower Services Commission 1974–1988. Training Commission 1988. Department of Employment 1988–1995. Department for Education and Employment 1995–2001. Department for Work and Pensions 2001. |
| Selection and destruction information: | This series meets TNA's Acquisition policy theme 2.2.1.5 Formulation and delivery of social policies, documenting the work of the Manpower Services Commission (OSP31 5.1.11). |
| Accruals: | Series is accruing. |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
Amongst its many responsibilities, the Employment Services Division was responsible for the development and maintenance of government policies around the maintenance and improvement of the employment prospects for disabled persons. Its objective was to accomplish this in a less staff-intensive way during a period of recession and high unemployment. The division also undertook a review of the statutory quota sheme for employment of disabled people. The Commission promoted the employment of disabled people with the 'Code of Good Practice on the Employment of Disabled People'. |
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