Catalogue description Unemployment Assistance Board and successors: Minutes, Papers and Reports

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Reference: AST 12
Title: Unemployment Assistance Board and successors: Minutes, Papers and Reports
Description:

Papers in this series, which consist mainly of Private Office papers and those kept by the Unemployment Assistance Board and successors' secretary, Sir Donald Sargent, record the activities of the Unemployment Assistance Board, the Assistance Board and the National Assistance Board.

They contain the boards' policies and procedures for implementing the various regulations made under the Unemployment Assistance Act 1934 and subsequent legislation. Also included are; minutes of meetings, circulated memoranda, unpublished reports of the Unemployment Assistance Board and the Assistance Board; minutes of committees and conferences of regional officers or controllers and reports of district officers.

Date: 1934-1967
Related material:

Minutes and papers of the Supplementary Benefit Commission will be found in AST 23

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Assistance Board, 1940-1948

National Assistance Board, 1948-1966

Supplementary Benefits Commission, 1966-1980

Unemployment Assistance Board, 1934-1940

Physical description: 175 files and volumes
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

from 1970 Department of Health and Social Security

Accruals: No further accruals.

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