| Level | Section |
| Ref No | BPS/001/11/04/03/03 |
| Title | BPS Consultations 1972-1979 |
| Date | 1972-1979 |
| Extent | 2 boxes |
| Physical Description | 4 folders |
| Description | Papers, reports and correspondence of responses to Government legislation, commissions, enquiries and other organisational requests for the opinion of the British Psychological Society.
Includes
BPS/001/11/04/03/03/01 Evidence to the Trethowan Committee on the Role of the Health Services 1973-1974
BPS/001/11/04/03/03/03 Memorandum of Evidence to the Butler Committee on Mentally Handicapped Abnormal Offenders, 1973
BPS/001/11/04/03/03/04 Evidence to the Warnock Committee of Enquiry into Special Education 1976-1979
BPS/001/11/04/03/03/06 Evidence to the Home Office Review Committee on the Prison Psychological Service 1978
BPS/001/11/04/03/03/07 Evidence to the Royal Commission on Criminal Procedures 1978
BPS/001/11/04/03/03/08 Attainments of the School Leaver 1974-1978
BPS/001/11/04/03/03/09 Report of the Working Party on the Sex Discrimination Act May 1978
BPS/001/11/04/03/03/10 Comments on the DHSS Document of the Health Service Complaints Procedure 1978
BPS/001/11/04/03/03/11 Comments on the Report of the Court Committee on Child Health Services 1978
BPS/001/11/04/03/03/12 Comments on DHSS 'Research Services for the Mentally Handicapped' 1977
BPS/001/11/04/03/03/13 Comments on Day Services for Mentally Handicapped Adults NDG No 5 1978
BPS/001/11/04/03/03/14 Evidence to the DHSS Joint Working Group on the Primary Health Care Team 1979
BPS/001/11/04/03/03/15 Comments on the DHSS Interim Health Building Note No.36 Health Centres 1979
BPS/001/11/04/03/03/16 Comments on Royal College of Psychiatrists document on the role of the Community Psychiatric Nurse 1979
BPS/001/11/04/03/03/17 Comments on Home Office Consultative Document Marriage Matters 1979-1980
BPS/001/11/04/03/03/18 Interdisciplinary Working Party on Ethical Guidelines for Behaviour Modification (Zangwill) 1977-1981
BPS/001/11/04/03/03/19 Evidence to and Comments on Report of Home Office Data Protection Committee 1977-1979
BPS/001/11/04/03/03/20 Comments on the Proposed New CCETSW Social Worker Training Programme (CSS) 1978
BPS/001/11/04/03/03/21 Evidence Submitted to the Select Committee on the Laboratory Animals Protection Bill (Halsbury) 1979
BPS/001/11/04/03/03/22 Comments on The Home Office Green Paper on Youth Custody and Supervision 1979
See Administrative History and Related Material for information on BPS consultations and responses elsewhere in the catalogue. |
| Format | File |
| Notes | The 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. |
| Language | English |
| Related Material | BPS/001/3/01 BPS Council Minutes
BPS/001/3/02 BPS Council Papers
BPS/001/3/02/01/27 BPS Council Papers 1972 includes response to Rothschild Committee report on research, Select Committee into Interrogation Procedures, Treatment of Young Offenders, Hospital Complaints Enquiry
BPS/001/3/02/02 BPS Council Papers II 1970-1977 includes Report of the Working Group on the Training Needs of Staff in Day Centres, June 1972; Memorandum of Evidence to the Butler Committee on Mentally Handicapped Abnormal Offenders, 1973;
BPS/001/3/02/03 BPS Council Papers III 1973-1979 includes response to Warnock committee report 1976
BPS/002/2/07/01 BPS SDPP Scottish Division of Professional Psychologists - Comment on DHS Circular on 'Child Psychiatric Services' by the Child Guidance Special Interest Group
BPS/001/4/01/02/01 BPS Professional Affairs Board PAB Paper 1974-1977 includes Printed document ( 1 page) entitled 'Working Party on Marriage Guidance, Interim Report' Ethel Venables, Chair, 23 October 1975 and BPS/001/4/01/03/01 BPS Professional; Affairs Board Papers I includes Reprint (copy) 'Marriage counselling by members of the Society' by Ethel Venables, Chair PAB Working Party on Marriage Guidance' (1976); Reprint 'The Society's comments on the DHSS Review of the Mental Health Act 1959' from Bull.Br.psychol.Soc. (1977), 30, 223-226; Evidence to the Royal Commission on the NHS"
BPS/001/4/01/03/01 BPS Professional Affairs Board Papers and Responses Reprint 'The Society's comments on the DHSS Review of the Mental Health Act 1959' from Bull.Br.psychol.Soc. (1977), 30, 223-226; BPS PAB 'Evidence to the DHSS Joint Working Group on the Primary Health Care Team' (1979); Reprint 'BPS PAB: The Society's comments on the report of the Committee of Enquiry into Normansfield Hospital' from Bull.Br.psychol.Soc. (1980), 33, 00-000; Reprint (copy) 'Marriage counselling by members of the Society' by Ethel Venables, Chair PAB Working Party on Marriage Guidance' (1976); BPS PAB Summary of recommendations ' Evidence to the Royal Commission on the National Health Service' (1977);
Reprint 'The Society's evidence to the Data Protection Committee (Home Office) from Bull.Br.psychol.Soc. (1977), 30, 244-288; BPS PAB 'Evidence to the Home Office Review Committee on the Prison Psychological Service' (1978); Correspondence concerning 'Inquiry into the United Kingdom Prison Services' (no BPS response) (1978); Northumberland Area Psychological Committee comments on Draft Health Circular ' Health centres and other provisions for primary health care' (1978); BPS PAB 'Manpower Survey: Psychologists and Mental Handicap' (1978); BPS PAB 'Evidence to the Royal Commission on Criminal Procedure' (1978); BPS comments on: 'Day Services for Mentally Handicapped Adults' NDG Pamphlet No.5 (1978); BPS comments on: 'Health Service Complaints Procedure' DHSS document (1978);
BPS comments on: 'Prevention in the Child Health Services' Court (1978); BPS comments on: 'Youth Custody and Supervision' Home Office green paper (1979); BPS comments on: 'DHSS Interim Health Building Note No. 36 Health Centres' (1979); BPS PAB 'Evidence to the DHSS Working Party on Observation and Assessment' (1979); BPS 'The Society's Response to the Consultative Document on the report of the Committee of Enquiry into the Education of Handicapped Children and Young People (Warnock report)' (1979)
BPS/002/2/03/05/01 DCLP Papers and Reports includes BPS Evidence to the DHSS Committee of Enquiry into Mental Handicap Nursing and Care, December 1978 and A Happier Old Age - a Discussion Document, DHSS and Welsh Office 1978', 15th September 1978
GRA/001/01/04 Grace Rawlings Papers on review of Mental Health Act
BPS/001/3/02/02/03 Council Papers III includes Pornography Response
BPS/001/4/01/02/02 BPS Professional Affairs Board PAB Papers 1978-1980 -BPS PAB Comments on the Procedures of Mental Health Review Tribunals, 30 November 1978; Response to the request from the Social and Community Psychiatry Group of the Royal College of Psychiatrists for comments on the role of the Community Psychiatric Nurse, April 1979; BPS PAB Report of the Working party Convened to Comment on the Document 'Marriage Matters', 26 October 1979; Response to the Report of the Committee of Inquiry into Normansfield Hospital; Final draft of The Society's Statement on the Statutory Registration of Psychotherapists, April 1980; Psychology and Primary Health Care draft responses;
BPS/001/4/02/03/01 BPS SAB Reports includes Typescript draft of evidence submitted to the Select Committee on the 'Laboratory Animals Protection Bill' (Halsbury), 1979
BPS/001/4/01/04/02/01 BPS Working Party on Data Protection Correspondence and Reports 1976-1979 |
| RelatedRecord | BPS/001/3/02/02/02 |
| BPS/001/3/02/01/27 |
| BPS/002/2/07/01 |
| BPS/001/4/01/02/01 |
| BPS/001/4/01/03/01 |
| BPS/002/2/03/05/01 |
| GRA/001/01/04 |
| BPS/001/3/02/02/03 |
| BPS/001/4/01/03/01 |
| BPS/001/4/01/02/02 |
| BPS/001/4/02/03/01 |
| BPS/001/4/01/04/02/01 |
| BPS/002/2/07/05 |
| AccessConditions | Registered Users by Appointment Only. |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| Location | 13: BPS History of Psychology Centre, London |
| Term | Mentally disabled |
| Public Relations |
| Legislation and Regulations |
| Old age |
| Forensic Psychology |
| Educational psychology |
| Intellectual disability |
| AdminHistory | British Psychological Society Consultations and Responses 1972-1979 (from Annual Reports - see Council Papers for many of these documents). After the creation of the BPS Professional Affairs Board in 1974 [BPS/001/4/01] and Scientific Affairs Board [BPS/001/4/02] responsibility for preparing evidence was sometimes delegated to those bodies
1971 A Framework for Government Research and Development (Lord Rothschild) [Council Papers 1972]
1972 Select Committee into Interrogation Procedures (Lord Parker) [Council Papers 1972]
1972 Home Office Advisory Panel Treatment of Young Offenders
1972 Working Party on the Development of Remedial Services (Scotland)
1972 Department of Health Enquiry into Hospital Complaints Procedure (Davies) [Bulletin Vol 25 pages 115-120, Council Papers 1972]
1973 Butler Committee on the Law Affecting the Mentally Abnormal Offenders [Bulletin Vol 26 pages 331-342 and annual report pages 30-32, Bulletin Vol 29 pages 130-139 and BPS Council Papers II, Council Papers 1972, Council Papers 1973]
1972 Department of Health and Social Security enquiry into the training needs of Staff in Day Centres [BPS Council Papers II]
1973 Department of Education and Science DES/Department of Health and Social Security DHSS Circular on Child Guidance [Annual report page 33 and Council Papers 1974]
1973-1977 DHSS Standing Mental Health Committee Subcommittee on the Role of Psychologists in the Health Services (Trethowan) [Bulletin Vol 26 pages 309-330]
1973-1974 Department of Health and Social Security paper on Child Psychiatric Services [Scottish Division of Professional Psychologists]
1974 Department of Education and Science draft circular on the Attainments of Handicapped Pupils - response by the BPS Division of Educational and Child Psychology
1974 -1978 Department of Education and Science Committee of Enquiry into Special Education (Warnock Committee) [Bulletin Vol 29 page 1-6, BPS Council Papers III]. Response to report published 1979
1974-1976 Department of Health and Social Security Child Health Services Committee (Court) [Bulletin May 1978 pages 157-160 - file]
1974- 1981 Department of Health and Social Security Working Party on Ethical Guidelines in Behaviour Therapy Programmes 'Behaviour Modification' / Joint Working Party BPS, Royal Colleges of Nursing, Royal College of Psychiatrists - sponsored by the DHSS] (Zangwill [ File and Bulletin October 1978 summary pages 368-369] Comments to report published Bulletin Vol 34 April 1981 page 131 [ PAB Papers 1 1974-1977; PAB Papers 1978-1980; DCLP Evidence and Reports 1978-1981
1974 Pack Committee on Truancy and Indiscipline in Scottish School - response by BPS Scottish Division of Educational and Child Psychologists
1975 Department of Education Enquiry into the Education of Handicapped Children and Young People
1975 Home Office Working Party on Marriage Guidance [File BPS PAB Papers 1974-1977 and PAB Reports I 1971-2005]
1976 Department of Education Discussion paper on Sterilisation of Children Under 16
1976-1979 Committee of Enquiry into Mental Handicap Nursing and Care (Jay) [file]
1976 Implications of the Equal Opportunities Commission and Sex Discrimination Act [file, Bulletin October 1978 page 369 summary]
1976-1977 Royal Commission on the National Health Service [PAB Papers 1974-1977]
1977 Home Office Committee on Data Protection [file]
1977 Review of the 1959 Mental Health Act [Bulletin June 1977, PAB Papers; BPS 'A Review of the Mental Health Act 1959' (no date)]; Grace Rawlings Papers
1977 Home Office Committee on Obscenity and Film Censorship (Williams) - response entitled 'A Psychological Analysis of the Effects of Pornography' [Council Papers III]
1977 Medical Women's Federation on educational psychology
1977 Department of Education Circular 2/75 'The discovery of children requiring special education and the assessment of their needs';
1977 Department of Health and Social Services 'Research Services for the Mentally Handicapped' [PAB Papers 1978-1980, file]
1978 Home Office Prison Psychological Service Review Body [File DCLP papers Bulletin October 1978 page 368 summary]
1978 Attainment in School Leavers [See Bulletin 1980 33 page 291]
1978 CCETSW Social Workers Training Scheme [file]
1978 Royal Commission on Criminal Procedure [DCLP papers]
1978 DHSS Department of Health & Social Security Prevention in the Child Health Service - published 1979 'Events to the DHSS Working Party on Observation and Assessment'
1978 Joint Professions Working Party on Statutory Registration of Psychotherapists (Sieghart) [Bulletin October 1978 page 369-370, PAB Papers 1978-1980]
1978 A Happier Old Age- a Discussion Document, DHSS and Welsh Office 1978', [DCLP Discussions and reports]
1978 National Development Group NDG Pamphlet No 5 Day Services for Adults [file]
1978-9 Procedures of Mental Health Review Tribunals [Grace Rawlings Mental Health Review, and PAB papers 1978-1980]
1979 DHSS Department of Health & Social Security Discussion Document on the Elderly [DCLP papers]
1979 DHSS Department of Health & Social Security Draft Interim Health Building Note 36 on Health Centres [PAB Papers and Responses 1971-2005 file]
1979 Employment Services Agency Review of Occupational Guidance
1979 Home Office Green Paper 'Youth Custody and Supervision: A New Sentence' [the Government's response to Advisory Council on the Penal System report Young Adult Offenders published in 1973] [ file and PAB Papers and Responses 1971-2005]
1979 DHSS Department of Health & Social Security Joint Working Group on Primary Health Care Teams [PAB Papers 1978-1980 and PAB Papers and Responses 1971-2005]
1979 Role of Community Psychiatric Nurses [file, PAB papers 1978-1980]
1979 National Development Group for the Mentally Handicapped 'Helping Mentally Handicapped People in Hospital' [Bulletin of the British Psychological Society Vol 33 February 1980 pages 61-64]
1979 Department of Health & Social Security DHSS 'Marriage Matters' [Professional Affairs Board Papers 1978-1980]
1978-1979 Report of a Committee of Enquiry into the Normansfield Hospital [Bulletin 33 April 1980 pages 134-135, PAB Papers 1978-1980 and PAB Papers and Responses 1971-2005 ]
1979-1981 Laboratory Animals Protection Bill - Private Members Bill on animal experimentation [file and Scientific Affairs Board 1976-1986 reports]
1979-1980 Protection of Animals (Scientific Purposes) Bills - Private Members Bill by P Fry withdrawn because of lack of support. [Response by BPS Standing Advisory Committee on Standards for Psychological Research and Training Involving Animals - see annual report 1979];
1979-1980 Council of Europe Convention on Protection of Laboratory Animals [[response by BPS Standing Advisory Committee on Standards for Psychological Research and Training Involving Animals - see annual report 1979]
1979 Royal College of Psychiatrists Role of the Community Psychiatric Nurse
1979 A better life: report on services for the mentally handicapped in Scotland : a report by a programme planning group of the Scottish Health Service Planning Council and the Advisory Council on Social Work
1979 Home Office Data Protection Committee Report [file and Data Protection Working Party Correspondence and reports]
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| Rules | Description compiled in line with the following: ISAD (G) General International Standard Archival Description MAD3 Third Edition 2000 |
| ArchNote | Compiled by Claire Jackson BPS Archivist History of Psychology Centre. |