RECORDS OF THE JOINT UNIVERSITY COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION (EARLIER THE JOINT UNIVERSITY COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL STUDIES AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION) (JUC) 1918-1991 Administrative history: the Joint University Council for Social Studies was established in 1918 as part of the reconstruction programme at the end of the First World War. It was a body financed by the universities themselves, with the object of developing and coordinating the work of the new social studies departments. The Council's title was altered to the Joint University Council for Social Studies and Public Administration with the formation of a standing public administration subcommittee in 1936. The Council itself continued to deal directly with social administration matters until 1955, when a Social Administration Committee and a Public Administration Committee were set up in parallel under a new constitution. The Council's title was changed to the Joint University Council for Social and Public Administration. From 1966 the committees carried on all the main business, and the Council itself took on a largely formal character. A third major sub-committee the Social Work Education Committee, was added in 1976. The purpose of the Council has been to develop and coordinate the work of higher education institutions in the three subject fields of public administration, social policy and social work. It has provided a national forum for the discussion of academic issues such as the contents of curricula, matters relating to resources and standards in teaching and research, and other issues of common interest in these subject fields. It has also underwritten and supported research activities, including workshops and conferences. Immediate source of acquisition: these records were deposited in the Centre by the Joint University Council in 1992. Access restrictions: there are no restrictions on access to these papers. CONTENTS FOUNDATION AND CONSTITUTION Draft constitutions and related correspondence of JUC secretary. 1939-1965 POLICY AND ADMINISTRATION Council, Public Administration Sub- Committee/Committee and executive committee minutes, 1918-1980 References MSS.319/1 MSS.319/2-8 (Continued next page) 1
CONTENTS (continued) Public Administration Committee/Sub- Committee minutes, agenda and papers, 1947-1989 Papers presented to annual public administration conferences, 1980-1988 Correspondence about the organisation of annual public administration conferences, 1986-1987 Executive committee records, 1966-1997 Annual general meeting records, 1978-1987 Social Administration Committee records, 1950-1987 Social Work Education Committee records, 1966-1988 Records of the joint executive committee of the Social Administration Committee and the Social Work Education Committee, 1973-1988 General correspondence, 1959-1988 Secretary's correspondence with individual institutions and organisations, 1931-1988 FINANCE Annual financial statements, correspondence and accounts paid, 1924-1986 COMMUNICATIONS AND PUBLICITY 'PAC Bulletin/'Public Administration Bulletin', 1964-1985 'Teaching Public Administration', 1979-1987 Various JUC publications, (1918)-1991 RESEARCH Publications of other organisations, 1984-1985 References MSS.319/9-19 MSS.319/20-28 MSS.319/29-31 MSS.319/32-35 MSS.319/36-37 MSS.319/38-48 MSS.319/49-62 MSS.319/63-66 MSS.319/67-70 MSS.319/ 71-172 MSS.319/ 173-177 MSS.319/ 178-181 MSS.319/182 MSS.319/ 183-186 MSS.319/ 187-188 MSS.319/1 FOUNDATION AND CONSTITUTION Draft constitutions and related correspondence of JUC secretary 1939-1965 2
POLICY AND ADMINISTRATION MSS.319/2 MSS.319/3 MSS.319/4 Council, Public Administration Sub- Committee/Committee and executive committee minutes Signed minutes of Council Includes: list of members of council (front of volume); list of members of sub-committee on welfare training (fixed to inside back cover); accounts of receipts and expenditure (reversed at back of volume). 1 volume Signed minutes of Council and Public Administration Sub-Committee 1 volume Signed minutes of Council and Public Administration Sub-Committee Public Administration Sub-Committee, 6 Nov 1936-27 Oct 1945; Council and Public Administration Sub-Committee, 6 Jan 1948-28 Sep 1951. Includes constitutions of 1939 and 1950 (pages 96-100). 1 volume 1918-1980 27 Apr 1918-25 Jan 1930 3 May 1930-18 Oct 1947 1936-1951 MSS.319/5 Signed minutes of Council, 5 Jan 1952-3 Jan 1980 Includes (at start of volume): constitutions, 1949, 1950 and 1970; description of the Council's work, 1944; lists of members of Council and committees, 1960-1970. 1 volume 1944-1980 MSS.319/6 Unsigned minutes and agenda of Council and Public Administration Sub-Committee, 1946-1949. Includes memorandum by Professor W A Robson on the teaching of public administration and social administration, 1954. 1946-1949; 1954 3
MSS.319/7 MSS.319/8 Unsigned minutes of Council, Public Administration Committee and executive committee Unsigned minutes of Council Public Administration Committee/Sub- Committee records 1949-1972 1951-1969 1947-1989 Minutes, agenda and papers 1947-1989 MSS.319/9 MSS.319/10 MSS.319/11 MSS.319/12 MSS.319/13 MSS.319/14 MSS.319/15 Sub-committee/Committee signed minutes, 18 Oct 1947-3 Apr 1967 Includes: agenda for meeting of 5 Jan 1968 (start of binder); council constitution adopted in 1949 (end of binder). 1 binder Committee unsigned minutes, agenda and papers Committee unsigned minutes, agenda and papers Committee minutes (some signed) and agenda Committee unsigned minutes, agenda and papers Committee unsigned minutes, agenda and papers of Education and training sub committee unsigned minutes, agenda and papers 18 Oct 1947-1968 1950-1969 1969-1978 1970-1979 1979-1984 1985-1987 1974-1978 4
MSS.319/16 MSS.319/17 MSS.319/18 MSS.319/19 MSS.319/20 MSS.319/21 Education and training sub committee unsigned minutes, agenda and papers Education and training sub committee unsigned minutes, agenda and papers Research sub committee unsigned minutes, agenda and papers Research sub committee unsigned minutes, agenda and papers Papers presented to annual public administration conferences Papers presented to the tenth conference. Subjects: policy implementation and the unions; the last Labour government's industrial strategy; techniques for penetrating Whitehall (outline only); professional values and the policy implementation process in local government; policy and the policy analyst; local authorities and employment creation. Papers presented to the eleventh conference. Subjects: morale in the civil service; industrial relations in the National Health Service after the breakdown of the old colonial system; civil service management in the United States of America, the United Kingdom and Canada; conflict of interest in public life; recruitment to the higher civil service in Britain; local government militancy in Britain and the United States. 1978-1985 1986-1988 1974-1985 1986-1989 1980-1988 1980 1981 5
MSS.319/22 MSS.319/23 Papers presented to the twelfth conference. Subjects: power bargaining models in policy analysis; the dangers of over-sophistication in policy analysis; reflections on policy analysis; the changing boundary between the public and private sectors; using social science research in policy making; subjective social indicators in local government; power bargaining models in policy analysis; Programme Analysis and Review (PAR); the choice of successor to the Polaris nuclear weapon system (outline only); improvement of public policy; equal opportunities legislation in the United States of America and the United Kingdom. Papers presented to the thirteenth conference. Subjects: information technology as a force for organisational change; information technology and civil service culture; information technology and organisations; information technology education and training policies; information technology and the state; information technology and the shape of things to come; computerisation of the social security system; computerisation of the Pay As You Earn system. 1982 1983 6
MSS.319/24 Papers presented to the fourteenth conference. Subjects: affiliation to the Trades Union Congress of the Association of First Division Civil Servants; managing change in the Civil Service (outline only); Department of the Environment Management Information System for Ministers (MINIS); role of the National Audit Office (synopsis only); employee relations and restraint in local government; the impact of the efficiency strategy; external reviews of nationalised industries and the work of the Monopolies and Mergers Commission; British administrative reform in historical perspective; health authorities; local government finance. 1984 7
MSS.319/25 MSS.319/26 Papers presented to the fifteenth conference. Subjects: 'peformance' in government and the public services; change from 'public policy' to 'public management'the Youth Training Scheme (YTS); analysing the regional level; privatisation as theology; developments in local government finance; policy analysis in the the Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS); powerdependence, policy communities and intergovernmental networks; public-private partnership in local economic regeneration; policy implementation in central-local relations in Britain and France; financial management developments in the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food; Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) research initiative on central-local government relations; government efficiency; the career civil service under challenge; Whitehall in retrenchment; accountable management in government; use and abuse of junior ministers. Also includes conference programme. Papers presented to the sixteenth conference. Subject: policy change under the Thatcher government: transport, housing, foreign policy, industrial policy, industrial relations, agriculture, law and order, energy, education, environmental policy and the National Health Service. 1985 1986 8
MSS.319/27 MSS.319/28 MSS.319/29 MSS.319/30 MSS.319/31 Papers presented to the seventeenth conference. Subjects: parliamentary responses to the government's efficiency and effectiveness initiatives; cultural change in the civil service; performance indicators in the public and private sectors; performance management in local economic development; clinicians and budgets in the National Health Service; cash limits and cash planning in Whitehall, 1976-1987; testing public choice theories; efficiency and effectiveness in British central government. Also includes conference programme. Papers presented at the eighteenth conference. Subjects: judicial review of administrative action in local government; attitudinal tolerance and civil liberties in Britain and the United States; citizens' rights and public policy, the major public inquiry and its alternatives (outline only); collective rights versus individual rights; the individual and the state; constitutional rights in Britain; judicial review and central government. Correspondence about the organisation of annual public administration conferences Sixteenth conference Sixteenth and seventeenth conferences Seventeenth conference 1987 1988 1986-1987 1986 1986-1987 1987 9
Executive committee records 1966-1987 MSS.319/32 MSS.319/33 MSS.319/34 MSS.319/35 Signed minutes 1 volume Agenda, some unsigned minutes, papers and secretary's correspondence Agenda, some unsigned minutes, papers and secretary's correspondence Agenda, some unsigned minutes, papers and secretary's correspondence 8 Jan 1966-20 May 1985 1966-1979 1979-1985 1986-1987 Annual general meeting records 1978-1987 MSS.319/36 MSS.319/37 MSS.319/38 MSS.319/39 MSS.319/40 Agenda, unsigned minutes, papers and secretary's correspondence Agenda, unsigned minutes, papers and secretary's correspondence Social Administration Committee records Records from before 1956 are those of the practical training committee. Committee signed and unsigned minutes Committee unsigned minutes, agenda and papers Committee unsigned minutes, agenda and papers 1978-1985 1985-1987 1950-1987 1950-1979 1973-1979 1979-1985 10
MSS.319/41 MSS.319/42 MSS.319/43 MSS.319/44 MSS.319/45 MSS.319/46 MSS.319/47 MSS.319/48 MSS.319/49 MSS.319/50 MSS.319/51 Committee unsigned minutes, agenda and papers Correspondence Correspondence Correspondence Comparative social administration group papers and correspondence Consultative group on community work unsigned minutes, agenda and papers Consultative group on community work unsigned, minutes, agenda and papers Consultative group on community work unsigned minutes and agenda Social Work Education Committee records This body began as the Social Administration Committee sub-committee on social work education. Unsigned minutes and papers Unsigned minutes, agenda and papers Unsigned minutes and agenda 1980-1987 1959-1973 1979-1985 1986-1987 1971-1983 1973-1979 1979-1984 1985-1987 1966-1988 1966-1971 1969-1971 1972-1980 11
MSS.319/52 MSS.319/53 MSS.319/54 MSS.319/55 MSS.319/56 MSS.319/57 MSS.319/58 MSS.319/59 MSS.319/60 MSS.319/61 MSS.319/62 Unsigned minutes, agenda and papers Unsigned minutes, agenda and papers. MSS.319/53-54 were originally together in one folder. 1 bundle Unsigned minutes, agenda and papers. MSS.319/53-54 were originally together in one folder. 1 bundle Executive unsigned minutes, agenda and papers Unsigned minutes, agenda and papers Unsigned minutes, agenda and papers Unsigned minutes, agenda and papers Papers Correspondence International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW) newsletters and correspondence 'Eligibility for entry to two-year programmes leading to the qualifying diploma in social work', published by the Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work (CCETSW) 1 booklet 1976-1978 1978-1980 1981-1982 1981-1987 1983-1986 1986 1987 1972-1979 1980-1988 1981-1987 Jul 1987 12
MSS.319/63 MSS.319/64 MSS.319/65 MSS.319/66 Records of the joint executive committee of the Social Administration Committee and the Social Work Education Committee Unsigned minutes, agenda and papers. Also includes records of the Social Administration Committee. Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work: correspondence and circulars Ealier records are those of the Social Administration Committee. Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work: correspondence and circulars Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work: correspondence and publications 1973-1988 1973-1984 1974-1980 1981-1985 1984-1988 General correspondence 1959-1988 MSS.319/67 MSS.319/68 MSS.319/69 ''Correspondence: JUC chairman and general'' ''Correspondence: JUC chairman and general'' Proposed Association of Teachers of Public Administration 1 file 1959-1985 1986-1988 1972-1975 13
MSS.319/70 MSS.319/71 MSS.319/72 MSS.319/73 MSS.319/74 Correspondence with and about the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Secretary's correspondence with individual institutions and organisations Mainly concerns membership of JUC, representation on its committees and subscriptions. Some correspondence is concerned with courses. University of Aberdeen University College of Wales, Aberystwyth University of North Wales, Bangor University of Bath (earlier Bath University of Technology) 1986 1931-1988 1966-1977 1952-1964 1950; 1966-1988 1966-1988 MSS.319/75 Bedford College, University of London 1956-1980 MSS.319/76 MSS.319/77 MSS.319/78 MSS.319/79 City of Birmingham Polytechnic University of Birmingham University of Bradford (earlier Bradford Institute of Technology) Bristol Polytechnic Also includes exchange of letters with the University of Aston in Birmingham, 1972. 1969-1973; 1984 1941-1988 1966-1988 1972-1979 14
MSS.319/80 MSS.319/81 MSS.319/82 MSS.319/83 MSS.319/84 MSS.319/85 MSS.319/86 University of Bristol Brunel University Bulmershe College of Higher Education, Earley, Reading 2 letters University of Cambridge University College, Cardiff (earlier University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire) Chelsea College, University of London Christ Church College, Canterbury 1 letter 1942-1972 1970-1971; 1987 1988 1936-1954 1943-1974 1974-1983 1988 MSS.319/87 Civil Service College, Sunningdale Park 1973-1987 MSS.319/88 MSS.319/89 MSS.319/90 MSS.319/91 MSS.319/92 MSS.319/93 University College, Cork 1 letter University of Dublin, Trinity College University College, Dublin University of Durham University of Dundee (earlier Queen's College, Dundee, University of St Andrews) 4 letters University of East Anglia 1984 1941-1980 1953-1988 1942-1988 1967-1988 1964-1982 15
MSS.319/94 MSS.319/95 MSS.319/96 MSS.319/97 MSS.319/98 MSS.319/99 MSS.319/100 MSS.319/101 MSS.319/102 MSS.319/103 MSS.319/104 MSS.319/105 MSS.319/106 MSS.319/107 University of Edinburgh University of Essex University of Exeter The Queen's College, Glasgow University of Glasgow Glasgow College of Technology 3 documents Goldsmiths' College, University of London Hatfield Polytechnic Polytechnic of Central London Huddersfield Polytechnic University of Hull (earlier University College, Hull) Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex Institute of Local Government Studies, University of Birmingham Institute of Public Administration, Dublin 1931-1974 1965-1988 1944-1984 1980-1988 1931-1983 1979 1973-1975 1969-1988 19791987 1977-1978 1952-1988 1973-1982 1973-1981 1986-1987 16
MSS.319/108 MSS.319/109 MSS.319/110 MSS.319/111 MSS.319/112 MSS.319/113 MSS.319/114 MSS.319/115 MSS.319/116 MSS.319/117 MSS.319/118 MSS.319/119 MSS.319/120 University of Keele (earlier University College of North Staffordshire) University of Kent at Canterbury Kingston Polytechnic Lancashire Polytechnic (earlier Preston Polytechnic) 2 letters University of Lancaster Lanchester Polytechnic, Coventry (earlier Lanchester College of Technology) University of Leeds Leeds Polytechnic Leicester Polytechnic Also includes letter on subsription of University of Reading, 1988 University of Leicester (earlier University College, Leicester) Liverpool Polytechnic University of Liverpool City of London Polytechnic 1951-1985 1965-1972 1975-1980 1979 19741988 1969-1973; 1988 1942-1983 1979 1970-1988 1947-1983 1979 1973-1988 1973-1979 17
MSS.319/121 MSS.319/122 MSS.319/123 MSS.319/124 MSS.319/125 MSS.319/126 MSS.319/127 MSS.319/128 MSS.319/129 MSS.319/130 MSS.319/131 MSS.319/132 University of London and its Department of Extra-Mural Studies University of Technology, Loughborough Local Government Training Board London Business School London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London Manchester Polytechnic University of Manchester University of Manchester Department of Administrative Studies (earlier Department of Overseas Administrative Studies) 3 letters Middlesex Polytechnic (earlier Enfield College of Technology) National and Local Government Officers Association (earlier the National Association of Local Government Officers) (NALGO) National Institue for Social Work 1 letter Nene College, Northampton 1 letter 1972-1980 1987-1988 1972-1988 1987-1988 1958-1984 1970-1988 1941-1988 1973-1975 1970-1987 1942-1988 1981 1988 18
MSS.319/133 MSS.319/134 MSS.319/135 MSS.319/136 MSS.319/137 MSS.319/138 MSS.319/139 MSS.319/140 MSS.319/141 MSS.319/142 MSS.319/143 MSS.319/144 MSS.319/145 MSS.319/146 Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic University of Newcastle upon Tyne North East London Polytechnic North Staffordshire Polytechnic University of Nottingham (earlier University College, Nottingham) Open University Oxford Polytechnic University of Oxford Department of Social and Administrative Studies and predecessors Paisley College of Technology Plymouth Polytechnic Portsmouth Polytechnic Queen Mary College, University of London Queen's University, Belfast University of Reading 1977-1980 1963-1988 1973-1987 1976-1980 1942-1972 1970-1982 1982-1987 1942-1982 1972-1988 1975-1978 1973-1974 1970-1981 1941-1985 1942-1987 19
MSS.319/147 MSS.319/148 MSS.319/149 MSS.319/150 MSS.319/151 MSS.319/152 MSS.319/153 MSS.319/154 MSS.319/155 MSS.319/156 MSS.319/157 MSS.319/158 MSS.319/159 Robert Gordon's Institute of Technology, Aberdeen University of St Andrews Salford University 2 letters School for Advanced Urban Studies, University of Bristol Sheffield Polytechnic University of Sheffield University of Southampton (earlier University College, Southampton) Polytechnic of the South Bank South Glamorgan Institue of Higher Education 3 letters University of Stirling University of Strathclyde (earlier the Royal College of Science and Technology) Suffolk College of Higher and Further Education 2 documents Sunderland Polytechnic 1977-1988 1955-1984 1979 1977-1980 1970-1978 1943-1976 1938-1988 1971-1988 1988 1975 1963-1988 1988 1981-1988 20
MSS.319/160 MSS.319/161 MSS.319/162 MSS.319/163 MSS.319/164 MSS.319/165 MSS.319/166 MSS.319/167 MSS.319/168 MSS.319/169 MSS.319/170 MSS.319/171 MSS.319/172 University of Surrey University of Sussex University College, Swansea Teesside Polytechnic, Middlesbrough Thames Polytechnic, London Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham University of Ulster and Ulster College, The Northern Ireland Polytechnic 2 folders joined University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology The Polytechnic of Wales, Pontypridd University of Warwick West London Institute of Higher Education 2 letters Wolverhampton Polytechnic 1 letter University of York 1966-1980 1962-1988 1945-1988 1974-1981 1971-1972 1975-1988 1978-1985 1970-1975 1985-1988 1965-1988 1988 1987 1965-1972 21
FINANCE 1924-1986 MSS.319/173 Annual financial statements 1924-1945 MSS.319/174 Annual financial statements 1945-1971 MSS.319/175 MSS.319/176 MSS.319/177 Office secretary's correspondence with honorary treasurer and others on financial matters Accounts paid: invoices and other vouchers Accounts paid and secretary's financial correspondence COMMUNICATIONS AND PUBLICITY 'PAC Bulletin/'Public Administration Bulletin' (from Dec 1972) This was published by the Public Administration Committee, usually twice a year before 1975 and three times a year between 1976 and 1985. 1955-1984 1972-1984 1983-1986 1964-1985 MSS.319/178 Numbers 1-4, 6-12 8 booklets MSS.319/179 Numbers 13-15, 17-25 12 booklets MSS.319/180 Numbers 26, 28-31, 33-37 10 booklets MSS.319/181 Numbers 38-49 12 booklets Jul 1964- Jun 1972 Dec 1972- Dec 1977 Apr 1978- Dec 1981 Apr 1982- Dec 1985 22
'Teaching Public Administration' 1979-1987 MSS.319/182 This was published twice a year first by the Public Administration Committee, later by the University of Manchester in assocation witn the JUC. Volume 1 numbers 4-6; volume III number 1; volume IV numbers 1-2; volume V number 2; volume VI numbers 1-2; volume VII number 2 10 booklets May 1979- Sep 1980; 1983-1987 Various JUC publications (1918)-1991 MSS.319/183 MSS.319/184 Published surveys of the council's work during the years 1918-1935 and 1918-1944 2 pamphlets Various JUC publications 'Public administration: a guide to undergraduate degree courses', nd; 'Public administration teaching in further and higher education', by Roy Lewis and Chris Himsworth, 1979; 'Teaching public administration' by Richard A Chapman, nd; 'Training in the Civil Service', edited by R A W Rhodes, 1977; 'Teaching social policy and administration in Britain and Ireland', report of joint working party with the Social Administration Association, 1977; 'Social administration: a compendium of undergraduate courses', published jointly with the Social Administration Association, nd; 'Guide to student finance for social work and education and training', Nov 1985; 'Preparing for practice: towards a future for educational strategy in social work', report of joint working party with the Association of Teachers in Social Work Education and the Standing Conference of Heads of CQSW Courses, Jun 1986 1 bundle (1918)-1944 1977-1986 23
MSS.319/185 MSS.319/186 MSS.319/187 MSS.319/188 Printed description of the JUC's work with covering note from secretary 3 documents Leaflet on degrees in public administration 1 leaflet RESEARCH Business and Technician Education Council (BTEC) publications 'Competence for caring: training and education for social work: the ADSS approach, published by the Association of Directors of Social Services' 1 booklet 1988 1991 1984-1988 1985 24