| Description | These records are currently being catalogued. For more information please consult the catalogues using the reference numbers below:
D2310 - Social Services Department, 1912-1985: including records re evacuees, correspondence 1960s, sample adoption case files 1940s, enquiry file re pocket money in residential homes 1960s
D6396 - Correspondence regarding boarded out children (Chesterfield area), 1930s - check original to see if Borough or County
D6937 - Infant Welfare Centres and Welfare Foods Distribution Centres, 1939-1971
Residential Establishments
D6689 - Glenholme Children's Home, Long Eaton, 1958-1972
D7969 - Evergreen House (formerly Albany House) Children's Home, Ilkeston, c1983-2016
D7970 - Fairview Residential Family Centre, formerly known as Newbold Road, with some records of its predecessor home, Lyndenhurst, 1990s-2010s
D7971 - Stephenson (formerly Greenacres), Children's Home, Chesterfield, 1990s-2016
D7972 - The Willows Children's Home, Chinley, 2012-2015
D7973 - Linden House Children's Home, Swadlincote, c1980s-2015
D7974 - Solomon House Children's Home, Buxton, 2005-2015
D7975 - Spire Lodge Children's Home, Chesterfield, 1995-2016
D7976 - The Getaway Children's Home, Ilkeston, c2003-2015
D7977 - The Old Post House Children's Home, Chesterfield, 1994-2016
D7978 - Three Gables Children's Home, Chapel-en-le-Frith, 2005-2016
D7979 - Hill View Children's Home, Chinley, 2011-2016
D7984 - Meadow Bank Children's Home, Belper 1958-1970
Unlisted records
Accession, May 2017: Mundy Street Children's Home, Ilkeston, 1992-2003
Accession, Jun 2017: Fernslope Children's Home, Belper 1957-1976; Springhill Children's Home, Duffield 1976-1982
Accession, Nov 2017: Linden House Children's Home Register 1970-1987; File concerning Moorfield containing printed reports and correspondence re individuals, 1990-1992; Minutes and other papers of the Education and Social Services Liaison Meetings, Mar 1994-Mar 1996; Springhill Admission and Discharge Register 1954-1992 (loose); Springhill Admission and Discharge register Jan-Apr 1993 (6 entries only)
Accession, Jan 2018: 'Early Years Descriptors of Special Educational Needs Provision: Guidance for Practitioners in all early years education settings', Dec 2008 |
| Administrative History | The 1918 Maternity and Child Welfare Act made it a statutory duty for counties and county boroughs to appoint a committee on child welfare and maternity matters. This included powers to safeguard the health of expectant mothers and children under five, and to provide day nurseries. This committee was dissolved following the Children Act of 1948 and its functions taken over by the Health and Children's committees. The Act also led to the appointment of a children's officer in each local authority, which also became responsible for the provision of children's homes and residential accommodation from the Public Assistance committee (established in 1930 when the Boards of Guardians were abolished). The power to provide approved school and remand home accommodation was transferred to the new committee from the Education committee which had been established in 1903 following the 1902 Education Act which appointed the county council as the Local Education Authority.
As a result of the Local Authority Social Services Act of 1970, these functions passed to the new Social Services committee and the councils’ social work services and social care provisions for both children and adults, were amalgamated into a single social services department.
Childrens Services, formerly Public Assistance, Welfare Service, Social Services
Directors
2005-2011 Bruce Buckley, Director of Children's Services (previously Director of Social Services)
2011-2014 Ian Thomas, Strategic Director of Children and Younger Adults
2014- Ian Johnson
2016-2021 Jane Parfrement
2021- Carol Camiss
Description of Children's Services department, Jan 2018
Support for vulnerable families and disabled children; teenage and careers services; children's centres; sports and outdoor learning; school improvement services; school meals; school place planning and building; special educational needs; adult community education; services traded with schools; pre-school and childcare support; safeguarding and child protection; fostering and adoption and the youth offending service (source: Derbyshire County Council website) |