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Includes records relating to governance of the Union; indoor relief (workhouse relief); outdoor relief; the collection of relief; settlement and removal; child welfare; hospitals and asylums; public health; assessment and rating; civil registration; the general administration of the Union (including staffing); financial records; legal case paper and summonses; and records relating to properties and buildings owned or tenanted by the Union.

Many of the records relating to indoor relief and outdoor relief contain information on individuals.

Includes records of the York Public Assistance Committee, which was responsible for the administration of the Poor Law from 1930-1948.

Comprises minutes of committee meetings of the York Poor Law Union (including the York Out-Relief Union, the Bishopthorpe Out-Relief Union, the Flaxton Out-Relief Union and the Escrick Out-Relief Union); and from 1930 the Public Assistance Committee.

Also includes the minutes of the Nuisance Removal Committee and the York Rural Sanitary Authority; and minutes of organisations administered by the York Poor Law Union including the York Charities Register Committee and Hodgson's Charity Committee.

Comprises minutes of the meetings of the Board of Guardians of the York Poor Law Union (also known as Union minutes); and from 1929 the minutes of the Public Assistance Committee.

See also Flaxton Out-Relief Union, Board of Guardians minutes PLU/1/12; and York Out-Relief Union, Board of Guardians minutes PLU/1/13

Approved, bound minutes of the Board of Guardians of the York Poor Law Union.

The Guardians met weekly or fortnightly to discuss and approve a range of matters relating to the administration of the poor law.

The minutes may include references to named individuals if there was a reason for bringing an individual case before the Guardians .

Some volumes are indexed or partially indexed

Handwritten minutes of the York Charities Register Committee.

Includes one small bundle of loose inserts from front of volume comprising general correspondence; an agenda; printed Abstract of Accounts for the Micklegate Freemen's Trust, 1938-1939; and signatures of those attending the meeting of 03 Jan 1911.

Includes approved minutes and draft minutes of the York Out-Relief Union Boards of Guardians and Relief Committees Nos 1,2, and 3.

See PLU/1/3/4-5 for combined mintues of the York Union and York Out-Relief Union Finance Committee minutes; and PLU/1/4/1-8 for combined minutes of the York Union and York Out-Relief Union Collecting Committee.

Minutes and agenda of the meetings of the Public Assistance Committee (renamed the Social Welfare Committee from 17 Jul 1947 to Aug 1948). Comprises approved and draft minutes.

The Pubic Assistance Committee met to discuss and approve a range of matters relating to the administration of the poor law.

The minutes may include references to named individuals if there was a reason for bringing an individual case to the attention of the Committee .

Note that agenda only exist for the period Feb1946-July 1948.