Minutes of the Royal College of Nursing Council meetings

• Reference:GB 1199 RCN2/1/2000
• Dates of Creation:2000
• Name of Creator:
  Royal College of Nursing of the United Kingdom (1916-2017) Nursing organisation
• Physical Description:
  0.04m

• Scope and Content

  Meetings were held every few months, in January, April, May, June, July and October. Each meeting is split into open and closed sessions (in the following format: minutes of open meeting, minutes of closed meeting, agenda of open meeting, open meeting papers, agenda of closed meeting, closed meeting papers).

  Items addressed at every meeting are: the location of the meeting, attendees and apologies, matters arising, General Secretary's report, adminstrative matters, staffing matters, Congress, committee and national boards' reports and a public affairs briefing.

  During 2000 the topics discussed by Council in open sessions include:

  Faculty project

  Council priorities 2000

  Congress the Way Forward

  Domestic violence

  Council vacancy

  Widening the membership

  Equality

  Indexed.

  This record relates to two separate sets of minutes: one set covers four bound volumes containing copies of the original papers. These volumes are kept in Store A.

  The other set consists of two boxes of original loose papers, including supporting papers. These papers are kept in Store B.

• Access Information

  This collection is available for research. Readers are advised to contact the RCN Archives in advance of their first visit. Any requests for access will be approved by the Head of Governance, due to the inclusion of sensitive information.

• Other Finding Aids

  Most recent online Royal College of Nursing Archives Catalogue is available at http://www.rcn.org.uk/development/library_and_heritage_services.

• Conditions Governing Use

  Royal College of Nursing

• Custodial History

  The main bulk of volumes came from London library historical collection to Edinburgh with the Archives' collections in 1992. Library maintained a copy set. From 1992 up until 2009 the papers were transferred directly by Council and Committee Admin (previously 'General Secretariat', or 'General Secretary's Office') One copy went to RCN Library for binding and the original to Archives, unbound. In January 2017 the two sets were brought together to create one full run of papers and an additional run, with copies of most years. The more complete set is held in Store A and the less complete set in Store B.