Reference
SS
Title
Bedfordshire County Council - Social Services Committee and Departmental Archives
Date free text
c.1970-c.1998
Admin/biog history
The Social Services committee was established in 1970. It succeded the Welfare and Children's Committees.
The 1973/4 Council Yearbook says it was
'To be the Social Services Committee required to be appointed under Section 2 (1) of the Local Authority Social Services Act 1970.
To exercise and perform all the powers and duties of the Council under:
1) the Local Authority Social Services Act 1970
2) The Children Acts 1948 and 1958
3) The Children and Young Persons Acts, 1933 to 1969 (excluding Part II of the 1933 Act and part II and Section 56 of the 1963 Act and the investigation and bringing of care and control proceedings under Sections 1 and 2 of the 1969 Act on grounds which include those in Section 1(2)(e).
4) The Adoption Acts 1958 to 1964
5) The Matrimonial Proceedings (Magistrates' Courts) Act, 1960, Section 2(1)(f).
6) The Matrimonial Causes Act 1965, Section 37.
7) The Mental Health Act 1959 Parts II to VI and Part IX except Sections 12 and 13, Sections 14 to 18 and Section 23 in so far as it relates to offences under those sections, Sections 28(2), 37, 4(3) and 56(2)(d) and Section 131 in its application to a mental nursing home or admissible patient.
8) the National Assistance Acts, 1948 to 1959 (except the power to make any scheme or chemes required to be made by the Council under those Acts)
9) The Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act, 1970, Sections 1,2 and 18
10) The Disabled Persons (Employment) Act 1958, Section 3.
11) The Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act, 1960 Sections 24 and Part II of the Caravan Sites Act, 1968, in so far as they relate to the provision of caravan sites whollyor partly for the use of gipsies.
12) The Health Services and Public Health Act, 1968, Sections 12, 13 and 45 (except for those mainly medical functions under Section 12 which from time to time stand referred to the Health Committee by direction of the Secretary of State for Social Services purusant to the Local Authority Social Services Act 1970 Section 2(4) and 2(5).
13) National Health Service Act 1946 Section 22(1) and (20 and Section 29 (except for those mainly medical functions under Section 22 which from time to time stand referred to the Health Committee by direction of the Secretary of State for Social Services pusuant to the Local Authority Social Services Act 1970 Sections 2(4) and 2(5), together with Sections 20, 58(2), 63 and 65, so far as they apply in relation to Scoial Service functions under Sections 22 or 29 or Section 12 or 13 of the Health Services and Public Health Act, 1968.
14) Nurseries and Child-Minders Regulation Act 1948.
15) Health Visiting and Social Work (Training) Act 1962, Section 5(1)(b), as extended by Section 45(9) of the Health Services and Public Health Act, 1968.
16) Ministry of Social Security Act 1966, schedule 4.
17) Family Law Reform Act, 1969, Section 7(4).
18) Section 138 of the Transport Act, 1968.
Archival history
Direct transfers from Bedfordshire County Council member services and the social services department and via the Bedfordshire County Council records management service.
Due to the nature of the department, some records will be closed under Data Protection legislation.
Please also note that the language used in the records and sometimes directly quoted in the catalogue is the language in use at the time of the records creation at which time it had specific meaning. Over time this meaning may have changed and certain words and phrases may not now be considered acceptable for use.
Level of description
fonds