Registered files of the Board of Education and successors' Further Education Branch and successors concerning the administration of the youth service in England, Wales and the Isle of Man.
This series of files comprises Miscellaneous: A - Registration of Youth: B - Grants (Local Education Authority expenditure): D - War Service: Deferment: and P - Individual Projects. The A and D files were discontinued after the war.
The records include proposals of the constitution of youth committees and administration of the youth service under Circular 1486; reports; and projects involving acquisition of land or property.
Examples of papers concerning registration under the Registration of Boys and Girls Order, 1941 have been preserved from the A files of four education authorities and are shown as a single entry at the end of the series list. Examples of grant application are also shown as a single entry at the end of the series list.
The series also contains papers regarding the wartime registration of youth.
The post-war files continued the Miscellaneous, B and P series. The Miscellaneous series was concerned mainly with the drafting of inspectors' reports.