STATE PROVISION FOR SOCIAL NEED
Series IV: The Development of the Welfare State, c1904-1970

Part 1: AST, CAB, ED, INF, LAB, MH, PIN, RG and T Files from The National Archives, Kew

Contents of Reels

REEL 1

AST 7: Unemployment Assistance Board and successors: Administration of Assistance Schemes, Registered Files

AST 7/551

Inter-departmental Committee on Social Services Survey (1941-1943)

AST 7/641

Pension supplementation: effect of 26-week review cycle; special enquiry No. 32; district officers’ reports (1943)

AST 7/645

Welfare: post-war period; proposals for take-over by local authorities (1943)

AST 7/806

Social security abroad (1945 Oct-1955 June)

CAB 21: Cabinet Office and predecessors: Registered Files (1916-1965)

CAB 21/1733

Committee on the National Health Service: composition of terms of reference

(1950-1951)

REEL 2

CAB 21/2019

National Health Service Bill (1944-1946)

CAB 87: War Cabinet and Cabinet: Committees on Reconstruction, Supply and other matters: Minutes and Papers (RP, SLAO and other Series)

CAB 87/11

Reconstruction Committee (c1941-1946); Sub-Committee on Social Insurance (1944); Sub-Committee on Workmen’s Compensation (1944)

CAB 87/12

Reconstruction Priorities Committee; Meetings 1 - 31 (1943)

REEL 3

CAB 87/13

Reconstruction Priorities Committee; Papers 1 - 98 (1943)

CAB 117: War Cabinet: Reconstruction Secretariat: Correspondence and Papers

CAB 117/157

Nuffield College Social Reconstruction Survey: general (1940-1943)

CAB 117/158

Nuffield College Social Reconstruction Survey: provision of statistics by government departments (1941-1942)

CAB 117/160

Nuffield College Social Reconstruction Survey: enquiries into education and urban development (1941-1943)

REEL 4

CAB 117/166

Nuffield College Social Reconstruction Survey: progress reports (1941-1943)

CAB 117/173

Nuffield College Social Reconstruction Survey: report on the re-absorption of women into industry after the first world war (1942)

CAB 117/176

Memorandum on social factors in urban development, by the National Council of Social Service (1941-1943)

CAB 123: Office of the Lord President of the Council: Registered Files, Correspondence and Papers

CAB 123/43

Social security and economic problems of the reconstruction period. Includes reports by the Economic Section of the War Cabinet Secretariat (1942-1943)

CAB 124: Offices of the Minister of Reconstruction, Lord President of the Council and Minister for Science: Records

CAB 124/440

Reports of Conferences of the Nuffield College Social Reconstruction Survey

(1943 Dec-1945 Mar)

REEL 5

CAB 124/441   

Reports of Conferences of the Nuffield College Social Reconstruction Survey (1945 July)

CAB 124/780

Appointment of a committee to enquire into the care of neglected and homeless children (1944 Mar-1945 May)

CAB 134: Cabinet: Miscellaneous Committees: Minutes and Papers (General Series)

CAB 134/518

Committee on the National Health Service: Meetings 1-6 (contains subject index); Papers 1-33 (1950 Apr 22-Nov 21)

CAB 134/519

Committee on the National Health Service: Meetings 1-4 (contains subject index); Papers 2-14 (Paper No 1 was not issued) (1951 Feb 15-Sept 18)

CAB 134/697

Social Services Committee: Meetings 1-15 (contains subject index); Papers 1-34

(1945 Aug 24-Dec 17)

REEL 6

CAB 134/698

Social Services Committee: Meetings 1-13 (1946) (contains subject index); Meetings 1-4 (1947) (contains subject index); Papers 1-22 (1946); Papers 1-7 (1947)

(1946 Jan 4-1947 Oct 13)

ED 136: Board of Education successors: Private Office: Files and Papers (Series II).  Care of Homeless Children

ED 136/584

Information and evidence supplied to the Curtis Committee by the Ministry of Education (1944-1945)

MH 77: Ministry of Health: Post War Planning and Establishment of National Health Service, Registered Files (93200 and 94100 Series), Proposals and Conference Papers.

MH 77/25

Post-War Policy. Hospital and medical services: discussions and correspondence

(1940 Dec-1941 Dec)

REEL 7

MH 77/26

Post-War Policy. Hospital and medical services: discussions and correspondence

(1942 Jan-1943 July)

MH 77/27

Post-War Policy. Hospital and medical services: discussions and correspondence

(1943 May-1944 Feb)

MH 77/28         

Post-War Policy. White Paper (Cmd. 6562): preparation and issue (1943 Nov-1944 Jan)

REEL 8

MH 77/30A

Post-War Policy. Progress since issue of White Paper (1945)

MH 77/30B

Post-War Policy. White Paper on a National Health Service: discussions between Minister & various interested bodies (1944-1947)

MH 79: Ministry of Health: Confidential Registered Files (100,000 Series)

MH 79/576

British Health Delegation to Scandinavia: Captain Julian Snow’s Mission on hospitals, health centres and services (1946)

REEL 9

MH 80: Department of Health and Social Security and predecessors: Bill Papers

MH 80/24

National Health Service Bill: preliminary papers (1939-1942)

REEL 10

MH 80/25

National Health Service Bill: preliminary papers (1943 Jan-May)

REEL 11

MH 80/26

National Health Service Bill: preliminary papers (1943 May-Dec)

REEL 12

MH 80/27

National Health Service Bill: preliminary papers (1944)

continued on next reel

REEL 13

MH 80/27

National Health Service Bill: preliminary papers (1944)

continued from previous reel

REEL 14

MH 80/28

National Health Service Bill: preliminary papers (1945 Jan-May)

REEL 15

MH 80/29

National Health Service Bill; preliminary papers (1945 May-Dec)

REEL 16

MH 80/30

National Health Service Bill; preliminary papers (1946 Jan-Apr)

REEL 17

MH 102: Home Office: Children’s Department: Registered Files (Six Figure Series): Policy

MH 102/1451A

Care of Children Committee, (Curtis Committee): memorandum of evidence on the care of children, etc, submitted by Lady Allen of Hurtwood (1945)

REEL 18

MH 102/1451B

Care of Children Committee, (Curtis Committee): memoranda 51-100 (1945-1946)

MH 102/1451C

Care of Children Committee, (Curtis Committee): memoranda 101-126 (1946)

REEL 19

MH 102/1451D

Care of Children Committee, (Curtis Committee): transcripts of evidence 1-50, copy of report of The Care of Children Committee 1946 (1945)

REEL 20

MH 102/1451E

Care of Children Committee, (Curtis Committee): transcripts of evidence 51-75 (1946)

PIN 60: National Insurance Advisory Committee: Minutes and Papers

PIN 60/1

Minutes of Meetings, 1-6 (1947 Nov-1948 Feb)

PIN 60/2

Minutes of Meetings, 7-12 (1948 Mar-May)

PIN 60/3

Minutes of Meetings, 13-23 (1948 May-1949 Jan)

REEL 21

PIN 60/4

Minutes of Meetings, 24-39 (1949 Feb-1950 May)

PIN 60/5

Minutes of Meetings, 40-75 (1950 June-1954 Apr)

PIN 60/6

Minutes of Meetings, 76-112 (1954 May-1959 June)

REEL 22

PIN 60/7

Minutes of Meetings, 113-155 (1959 Sept-1968 Oct)

PIN 60/8

Minutes of Meetings, 156-185 (1968 Nov-1977 Apr)

PIN 60/9

Minutes of Meetings, 186-204 (1977 May-1980 Oct)

PIN 60/12

Main provisions of the National Insurance Act, 1946 (1947)

RG 23: Government Social Survey Department: Social Survey: Reports & Papers

RG 23/111

Knowledge and Opinion about the Economic Situation, Social Services (1950 May)

T 165: Treasury Blue Notes

T165/135

Department of Health for Scotland (1950-1954)

T165/300

National Health Service: Scotland (1950-1955)

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