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Catalogue description Commonwealth Relations Office: Administration Department, Inspectorate: Registered Files, Inspection of Overseas Posts (INSP) Series
| Reference: | DO 218 |
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| Title: | Commonwealth Relations Office: Administration Department, Inspectorate: Registered Files, Inspection of Overseas Posts (INSP) Series |
| Description: |
This series contains policy records produced by the Inspectorate of the Commonwealth Relations Office Administration Department dealing with the establishment of the Inspectorate to monitor work carried out in High Commissions and other overseas posts in the Commonwealth. |
| Date: | 1964 |
| Arrangement: |
Former file reference |
| Related material: |
For registered files of the Inspectorate see: FCO 84 |
| Separated material: |
No Commonwealth Relations Office Inspectors' reports have been preserved. |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Former reference in its original department: | INSP file series |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Commonwealth Relations Office, Administration Department, 1960-1965 |
| Physical description: | 2 file(s) |
| Access conditions: | Open |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
In 1999 Foreign and Commonwealth Office |
| Accumulation dates: | 1964 |
| Accruals: | No future accruals expected |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
The Foreign Office had long contained in its Chief Clerk's Department a number of inspectors of overseas posts whose work involved visiting posts to monitor and report on their performance, and to recommend changes in practice, workloads and staffing levels etc. This system was introduced into the Commonwealth Relations Office in 1964 as part of wider measures to standardise practices between the two Offices prior to merger. In January 1965, the administrative departments of the Commonwealth Office and the Foreign Office were merged to form the Diplomatic Service Administration Office, and both departments' inspectors became part of a single merged Inspectorate. |
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