ED 181871-1945Board of Education and predecessor: Elementary Education, Local Education Authority Attendance Files
Local Education Authority attendance files that include papers concerning bye-laws authorised under the Elementary Education Act, 1870; exemption certificates; 'half-time scholars'; the Factory Acts; the restrictions of the 1918 Education Act on the employment of children; the duty expressed in the 1921 Education Act to cause every child to receive education between the ages of 5 and 14 years; and subsequent proposals by Local Education Authorities to raise the school leaving age to 15.
Recognition of periods of religious instruction during school hours as attendance, appears as a major problem.
Correspondence with school boards of boroughs, and (where no school board existed) with school attendance committees, and, after 1903, with Local Education Authorities concerning the enforcement and other aspects of school attendance.
Papers from 1939 are concerned with the war-time problems of evacuation of children, education of those who remained, the difficulties of school accommodation and the instruction of children in schools without adequate air raid shelter accomodation.
The papers also contain comparative percentages and statistics of attendance for the years 1941, 1942 and 1943.