Home Office: Racial Disadvantage (RDI Symbol Series) Files

IDENTITY STATEMENT AREA

Reference code(s): HO 376

Title: Home Office: Racial Disadvantage (RDI Symbol Series) Files

Date(s): 1963 - 1981

Level of description: Series

Extent and medium of the unit of description: 175 file(s)

CONTEXT AREA

Name of creator(s): Home Office, Community Relations Department, 1970-1972
Home Office, Community Programmes Department, 1972-1977
Home Office, Community Programmes and Equal Opportunities Department, 1977

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CONTENT AND STRUCTURE AREA

Scope and content: Files from the Home Office RDI series which came into existence in 1967. The subjects covered form the remit of the I Division within the Home Office; they deal with policy issues in the field of race relations generally as distinct from the more specific roles of the Commission for Racial Equality and the Immigration and Nationality Department.

These subjects include legislation in the field of race relations, community relations liaison, race relations research and statistics, ethnic monitoring, repatriation scheme under section 29 of the Immigration Act 1971, liaison with the Commission for Racial Equality and grants under section 11 of the Local Government Act 1966.

Subseries within HO 376 include:

Race Relations Bill 1965

Race Relations Act 1965

Race Relations Bill 1967

Race Relations Bill 1967 (Pieces 71-85)

National Committee For Commonwealth Immigrants (Pieces 89-93)

Community Relations Commission (Pieces 94-102)

Integration Of Commonwealth Immigrants: Grants To Local Authorities (Pieces 112-116)

Race Relations Research (Pieces 143-149) Race Relations Board (Pieces 161-165)

A number of files of interest are contained in Pieces without a sub-series parent at subsubseries level within HO 376, the following are a sample:

HO 376/18: Working Party on Race Relations Legislation

HO 376/19: Proposed changes to Race Relations Act 1965

HO 376/65: Consideration of the future structure of the Race Relations Board and the National Committee for Commonwealth Immigrants

HO 376/124: Collection of statistics on basis of colour or ethnic origin 1969-1970

HO 376/125: Asian immigrants from East Africa 1966-1968

HO 376/126: Proposed White Paper on immigration and race relations 1969

HO 376/128: Economic implications of immigration 1966-1967

HO 376/130: Social and economic effects of coloured immigration

HO 376/150: Racial Discrimination in England: report by Political and Economic Planning

HO 376/151: Sikhs: discrimination against in employment

HO 376/154-155: Black Power: intelligence reports

HO 376/157: UN International Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination

HO 376/158:Home Secretary's speeches on race relations

HO 376/159:Select Committee on Race Relations and Immigration: Home Office evidence

HO 376/167: Race Relations (Amendment) Bill 1970 put forward by Jo Grimond MP

HO 376/168: Asian immigrants from East Africa

HO 376/172: Advisory Committee on Race Relations Research: interim report; appointment of chairman; future of Committee1970-1971

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System of arrangement: The papers in this series are arranged by departmental file number. The inclusion of a date before a file number (as in RDI (1959) 5/1/1/) indicates that the year in which the file was created was included in the file reference number. Thus the full departmental reference of a file listed as RDI (1967) 5/1/1 would be RDI 67/5/1/1.

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Language/scripts of material: English

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ALLIED MATERIALS AREA

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Related units of description: Records of the Commission for Racial Equality, Race Relations Board and Community Relations Commission are in PRO Online Catalogue (PROCAT): CK 1, CK 2 and CK 3
Minutes and papers of the National Advisory Committee for Commonwealth Immigrants are in HO 230
Minutes and papers of the National Committee for Commonwealth Immigrants are in HO 231.

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DESCRIPTION CONTROL AREA

Recorder's 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: December 2001

Interest: Caribbean, Black, Asian

Specific group:

Subjects

Sikh peoples

Black peoples

Racial discrimination

Immigration

Naturalization

Interethnic relations

Personal/Corporate names

Places