LevelSection
Ref NoBPS/001/11/04/03/01
TitleBPS Consultations and Responses 1931-1959
Date1956-1959
Extent1 box
DescriptionPapers, reports and correspondence of responses to Government legislation, commissions, enquiries and other organisational requests for the opinion of the British Psychological Society.
Includes
BPS/001/11/04/03/01/01 Evidence to the Home Office Committee on the Law Relating to Homosexual Offences 1956

BPS/001/11/04/03/01/02 Evidence to the Home Office Committee on the Law Relating to Children and Young Persons 1958-1959

BPS/001/11/04/03/01/03 Evidence to and Comments on Report of the Royal Commission on the Law Relating to Mental Illness and Mental Deficiency 1954-1957


See Admin History for full list of consultations and notes as to whether published or material in a file elsewhere e.g. Council Papers.

See BPS/001/11/04/02/02/03 for Reports of Working Parties set up after the 1959 Mental Health Act
FormatFile
NotesThe History of Psychology Centre is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all our users. Be aware that our catalogue contains historic terminology relating to mental health which could be considered offensive. The terminology exists within the original record and has been retained to inform users on viewpoints at the time. It in no way reflects the attitudes of the cataloguers or the British Psychological Society.
Some material transferred to Wellcome see notes at file level for reference number to request.
LanguageEnglish
Related MaterialBPS/001/3/01 Council Minutes
BPS/001/3/02 Council Papers
BPS/001/3/02/01/02-03 BPS Council Papers 1947-1948
BPS/001/3/02/01/13 BPS Council Papers 1958
BPS/001/3/02/01/14 BPS Council Papers 1959
BPS/001/3/02/02/05 BPS Council Papers V typed minutes, draft terms of reference and memoranda concerning a BPS Committee of Professional Psychologists (Mental Health) standing sub-committee on Training (Underwood Report), a proposed Training Council for Clinical and Educational Psychology 1957-1962

BPS/002/2/06/08/08 BPS Committee of Professional Psychologists (Mental Health) (English Division) Working Parties Working Parties report on the response to of the Royal Commission on the Law Relating to Mental Illness and Mental Deficiency, Business for BPS Council Meeting March, 1958

BPS/001/11/04/02/03/03 Mental Health Act Mental Subnormality Working Party reports 1964-1966

BPS/002/2/01/07 BPS Division of Clinical Psychology Reports and Papers 1955-1984

BPS/002/2/04/03 Report from the Working Party providing evidence for the Committee on Maladjusted Children set up by the Minister of Education 1952
RelatedRecordBPS/001/3/02/01/13
BPS/001/3/02/02/05
BPS/001/3/02/01/14
BPS/002/2/06/08/08
BPS/002/2/01/07/01
BPS/002/2/04/03
BPS/001/11/04/02/02/03
WALTON/001/01
AccessConditionsRegistered Users by Appointment Only.
AccessStatusOpen
Location13: BPS History of Psychology Centre, London
16: Wellcome Library
TermPublic Relations
Legislation and Regulations
Special educational needs
Special education
Learning disabilities
AdminHistoryBritish Psychological Society Consultations and Responses 1946-1959 (from Annual Reports - see Council Papers for many of these documents)

1931 Education of Children Under Seven Years of Age - Memorandum Submitted to the Consultative Committee [of the Board of Education] by the Education Section of British Psychological Society [British Journal of Medical Education Vol 1 part 2 page 257-265 includes also evidence by Susan Isaacs].

1931 Primary School Children Memorandum Submitted to the Consultative Committee [of the Board of Education] by the Education Section of British Psychological Society

1943 Ministry of Health Neurosis Survey

1943 Evidence to McNair Committee on the Training of Teachers and Youth Leaders [Council Minutes 1942

1947-1948 Minstry of Education Circular 146 Examination of Educationally Subnormal Children [Council Papers 1947-8]

1949 Home Office Committee of Inquiry into Children and the Cinema [Council Papers 1949]

1949 York Child Guidance Clinic - publication of names of child delinquents

1954-1958 Royal Commission on the Law Relating to Mental Illness and Mental Deficiency [file and Bulletin of the British Psychological Society May 1958 volume 35 pages 1-26 and BPS Council Papers 1954]

1955 Home Office Departmental Committee on Homosexuality [Bulletin of the British Psychological Society May 1956 29 file]

1955 Committee on Maladjusted Children Underwood Committee [Council Papers V and DECP Papers]

1956 Ministry of Health Standing Mental Health Advisory Committee education of the public in mental health [Council Papers July 1956]

1957-1959 Home Office Committee on Children and Young Persons Ingleby Committee [Bulletin of the British Psychological Society May 1959 Volume 38 page 16-36]

1958 Interdepartmental Committee on Drug Addiction (Ministry of Health, Scottish Office, Home Office) [Council Papers 1958, Council Papers 1959 and Walton Papers]

1958 Proposed Council for Training in Educational and Clinical Psychology [Council Papers V and Council Papers 1958]

1959 Mental Health Bill [Working Party on Mental Illness and Mental Defect reconvened] Council Papers 1959, Grace Rawlings Papers]
RulesDescription compiled in line with the following: ISAD (G) General International Standard Archival Description MAD3 Third Edition 2000
ArchNoteCompiled by Claire Jackson BPS Archivist History of Psychology Centre.
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