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| Description | Agendas, papers and minutes for National Child Development Study (NCDS) Steering Group (Fifth Stage) meetings, and related correspondence.
Subjects covered in the meetings include:
Steering Group terms of reference and membership
Purpose, objectives and output of NCDS5
Funding
NCDS response to concerns from the ESRC
Director's progress reports
Analyses in the main phase
Pilot phase timetable, design, aims
Tracing
Staff & Recruitment
Tendering
Draft questionnaires
Survey plans
Reports from NCDS5 team - fieldwork progress, cohort member interviews, self-completions, tracing
'NCDS5 - report on the dress rehearsal, prepared by NOP, SCPR, RSGB', April 1990
NCDS forward plan
Final meeting papers include financial report, contractors report and final report from NCDS team
Dates of meetings:
18/5/1989, 1st meeting
23/10/1989, 2nd meeting
1/3/1990, 3rd meeting
10/5/1990, 4th meeting
16/8/1990, 5th meeting
5/10/1990, 6th meeting
11/1/1991, 7th meeting
30/5/1991, 8th meeting
4/11/1991, 9th meeting
12/5/1992, 10th meeting
4/11/1993, 13th meeting/final meeting
Correspondence includes:
Memo from John Bynner to John Fix, Alan Marsh, Peter Shepherd and Kate Smith re lack of minutes at recent NCDS meetings, 27/10/1989
Letter from John Bynner to John Alderman (Health & Safety Executive, Magdalene House, Merseyside, and member of NCDS5 Steering Committee) re final meeting of NCDS5 Steering Group and decision to continue the group with a new name 'SSRU Birth Cohort Studies Steering Group' |