The Ministry of State for Social Development was created under the authority of the Ministries and Ministers of State Act by virtue of Order in Council (P.C. 1980-1692 of June 19, 1980). The "super-ministry" was charged with formulating and developing "new and comprehensive policies in relation to the activities of the Government of Canada that affect the welfare of the individual and social development". Composed of three main branches, the Finance and Coordination Branch, the Program Delivery Branch, and the Income Support and Transfer Payments Branch, the Ministry was abolished (effective September 1, 1984) by Order in Council (P.C. 3037 of August 31, 1984)., The records in this accession are working files arranged alphabetically according to subject. They contain material similar to that found in Series 2 (Central Registry), such as correspondence, memoranda, reports, news clippings, statistics, reports, meeting minutes and briefing notes. There may be a certain amount of duplication between these records and files on a similar subject within the official central registry series., Please see the provisional series description in part 2 of the inventory for more information about the arrangement and contents of these records.
