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CLERK'S DEPARTMENT: ESTABLISHMENT


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): MCC/CL/ESTAB

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: CLERK'S DEPARTMENT: ESTABLISHMENT

Date(s): 1923-1965

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 10 linear metres

Name of creator(s): MCC | Middlesex County Council x Middlesex County Council

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

In 1889 County Council policy was directed by 72 members and administered under the leadership of Sir Richard Nicolson, Clerk of the County Council, and a handful of staff. The number of members has risen to 116 by 1952 and by 1965 the County staff numbered some 32,000, of whom 2,000 head office staff occupied the Guildhall and five other offices in Westminster. This indicates the tremendous increase in administrative work under successive Clerks of the County Council.

In the years between the two wars a semi-rural county became an almost completely urbanised area. The introduction of new legislation made ever increased demands upon members of the administrative staff, involving in later years monthly meetings of some 50 committees and sub-committees.

The Establishment Committee was responsible for staffing and personnel matters for all County Council employees, including matters relating to duties, appointments and salaries.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Department relating to the Establishment Committee, 1923-1965, comprising papers relating to staff matters including superannuation, grading, appeals against grading decisions, leave, recruitment, expenses, employment of the disabled, departmental reorganisations, salary scales, equal pay, staff inspections, financial aid, training schemes, bonus schemes, advertising and publicity, correspondence, reports, conditions of service and regulations. Also Joint Negotiating Committee papers, Fire Brigade personnel cards, and papers relating to the transfer of staff to other authorities in 1965.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

MCC/CL/ESTAB/01: General; MCC/CL/ESTAB/02: Establishment Officer's files; MCC/CL/ESTAB/03: Organisation and method; MCC/CL/ESTAB/04: Staff inspections; MCC/CL/ESTAB/05: Miscellaneous; MCC/CL/ESTAB/06: Transfer of staff; MCC/CL/ESTAB/07: Staff regulations.

Conditions governing access:

These records are available for public inspection, although records containing personal information are subject to access restrictions under the UK Data Protection Act, 1998.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to these records rests with the Corporation of London.

Physical characteristics:

Fit

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Immediate source of acquisition:

Acquired with the records of its parent authority, the Middlesex County Council, and with successor authorities.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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Publication note:

For further information on the history of the Middlesex County Council please see Middlesex by Sir Clifford Radcliffe (2 editions, 1939 and 1953), LMA Library reference 97.09 MID; and The County Council of the Administrative County of Middlesex: 76 years of local government, 1 April 1889 to 31 March 1965, by Middlesex County Council (1965), LMA library reference S97.09 MID.

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: April to June 2009


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Employment policy | Employment
Job applications | Personnel management | Organization and administration | Health services administration | Public administration | Government
Local government | Public administration | Government
Local government personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Recruitment | Personnel management | Organization and administration | Health services administration | Public administration | Government
Wages | Personnel management | Organization and administration | Health services administration | Public administration | Government
Working conditions | Conditions of employment | Personnel management | Organization and administration | Health services administration | Public administration | Government

Personal names

Corporate names
Clerk's Department | Middlesex County Council
MCC | Middlesex County Council x Middlesex County Council

Places
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Middlesex | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe