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Minutes, agendas and papers of meetings of the Academic Congress at the University of Strathclyde.

Booklet published by the Faculty of Education at the University of Strathclyde outlining the Faculty's strategic plan to 2010.

Correspondence and papers re production of leaflet ‘Asbestos in your home’, 2005 and 2006. Includes background material, drafts, correspondences with sponsors.

Correspondence (including telephone memoranda) with Citizens Advice Bureaux across the UK. In alphabetical order by place name, from 'Aberconwy' to 'York'.

Instructions on filing, CAB fliers and address list of CABs across the UK at front of file.

Conference papers, originally comb-bound, and invitation for Nancy Tait to attend. It remains open whether she did so.

Speakers included

• Francis McCarthy (Pattison & Brewer): asbestos - an introduction
• Dr Robin Rudd (St Batholomew's Hospital): asbestos-related diseases
• Chris Bishop (Asbestos Removal Contractors Association (ARCA)): asbestos in the workplace
• Paul Meehan (Pattison & Brewer): control of asbestos regulations 2006

Information re the foundation of the International Mesothelioma Interest Group (IMIG) and the 2006 IMIG conference. Includes covering letter from Adrian Budgen, conference programme and abstracts.

Correspondence and papers re application for a Department of Health Section 64 grant. The application was for £68,100, spread out over a three year period. The grant was 'for central administrative costs'. Includes a draft of the application.

The application was successful.

S64 of the Health Services and Public Health Act 1968 provided power for the Secretary of Health to make grants to voluntary organisations in England whose activities support the Department of Health's policy priorities.

Discussions of consultation papers on key issues of personal injury law.

Correspondence with legal scholar Nicholas Wikeley (University of Birmingham) and papers including research papers and press reports. Covers both specific medical appeal cases and legal/regulatory provisions more generally, including Wikeley’s ongoing research.

Further includes a copy of Benefits Agency / Department of Social Security (1994) 'The medical assessment for incapacity benefit'.

Originally contained copies of Wikeley's publications (draft and/or final version). For ease of access, these have been extracted and added to the Wikeley publications elsewhere in the collection; see links below.

Correspondence (mainly with the GMB health & environment section and regional health workers of the union), enquiries, press releases, research articles. Includes

• copy of report of Tom Cox, UK Socialist Group (1998) ‘Dangers of asbestos for workers and the environment’, accepted by the Parliamentary Assembly in the Council of Europe; also set of amendments to the report
• papers re cases of asbestos-related lung cancer in Northern Ireland
• correspondence re John McClean (GMB Regional Health and Safety Officer) joining the OEDA Management Committee in 1995