Files of the Ministry of Education and successors' Schools Branch relating to general aspects of primary and secondary education since the coming into force of the Education Act 1944.
The series includes files on such topics as comprehensive education, examinations, educational and career guidance, diocesan education committees and local government reorganisation and on such bodies as the Secondary Schools Examination Council, the Curriculum Study Group and the Schools Council for the Curriculum and Examinations. Material on the School Certificate, the General Certificate of Education and the Certificate of Secondary Education is also included.
Following the 1944 Education Act the previous E (Elementary) and S (Secondary) Local Education Authority files were reclassified P/S but no P/S General files were opened, the old E and S General series continued in use and, inevitably, there was much overlapping of subject matter.
Included in this series are representative specimen files from certain of the routine Primary/Secondary and General Local Education Authority files. The relevant policy and procedure files for each series will be found in the General files.
- These series are:
- P/S LEA A - Attendance
- P/S LEA B - Regulations
- P/S LEA P - Extra district children
- P/S LEA S - Miscellaneous
- P/S LEA T - Religious instruction
- G LEA G - Section 53 of the 1944 Education Act, the provision of facilities for recreation and social and physical training
- G LEA P(2) - Transport
- G LEA Q - Provision of clothing
Files relating to the Schools Council for the Curriculum and Examinations, the Curriculum Study Group and the Secondary Schools Examinations Council are included in this series.