Board of Education and successors' Local Education Authority staffing files relating to a system of approved establishments of teachers ('staffing quotas') introduced in 1927. The records in this series consist of files for the counties, for county boroughs, and for boroughs and urban districts 'excepted' under part III of the Education Act 1902.
Files in this series dating from before 1935 contain annual returns submitted by Local Education Authorities of teaching staff and numbers of children on the roll. Still earlier papers in the series contain material relating to the recognition, under the code of Grant Regulations, of unqualified and supplementary teachers employed by Local Education Authorities with urban areas, and questions of staffing arrangements arising from proposed changes in the conditions for the staffing of public elementary schools set out in the Board of Education's circulars 1325 (1924) and 1360 (1925).
In addition this series contains special wartime staffing and attendance returns, papers concerned with the problems of staffing arising from the evacuation of schools, and also with the special measures taken by the board, as set out in their circular 1591 (1942), to allocate the output of teachers leaving training colleges.
Files beyond 1944 cover the staffing of both primary and secondary schools. Two sample files have been preserved from the period 1945-1955, covering the Middlesex and Surrey areas. Three sample files have been preserved from the period 1962-1970: these concern one (rural) county, Dorset; one London borough, Ealing, the file for which makes reference to immigrant pupils; and one county borough, Bradford.