National Committee for Commonwealth Immigrants: Minutes and Papers

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Reference code(s): HO 231

Title: National Committee for Commonwealth Immigrants: Minutes and Papers

Date(s): 1964 - 1968

Level of description: Series

Extent and medium of the unit of description: 30 files and volumes

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Name of creator(s): National Committee for Commonwealth Immigrants, 1965-1968

Administrative/Biographical history: The National Committee for Commonwealth Immigrants (NCCI) was appointed by the Home Secretary in September 1965 as a result of the 1965 White Paper Immigration from the Commonwealth (Cmnd. 2739). Its chairman was the Archbishop of Canterbury, and its terms of reference were: To promote and co-ordinate on a national basis efforts directed towards the integration of Commonwealth immigrants into the community.

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Scope and content: These records comprise minutes and papers of the Committee, of the Standing Conference of Voluntary Liaison Committees, and of specialist panels; correspondence and policy papers.

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System of arrangement: For files in the Racial Disadvantage (RDI) series see PRO Online Catalogue (PROCAT) series: HO 376.
For Integration of Commonwealth Immigrants Department see PROCAT: Division within EW.
The NCCI was itself succeeded by the Community Relations Commission (CRC) in 1968; the records of the CRC, which contain a few papers of the NCCI, are in PROCAT series CK 3.

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Language/scripts of material: English

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Finding aids: PRO Online Catalogue

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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: December 2001

Interest: Caribbean, Black, Asian

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Interethnic relations

Immigration

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