Catalogue description Aid to Pupils: Local Education Authority Files

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Details of ED 63
Reference: ED 63
Title: Aid to Pupils: Local Education Authority Files
Description:

Board of Education and Ministry of Education files relating to the provision by local education authorities of maintenance and other allowances, to children and young persons undertaking post-elementary education, who were in need of financial assistance.

The files contain details of schemes for assistance to pupils, and annual returns and estimates of expenditure submitted to the Board of Education by local education authorities. Some papers relate to the Isle of Man.

For the period after 1936 only complete representative specimen files have been preserved. These relate mainly to maintenance allowances.
Date: 1919-1955
Arrangement:

Alphabetically by counties and county boroughs in England and Wales.
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 166 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
Administrative / biographical background:

The 1902 Education Act empowered local education authorities to pay, or assist in paying, fees for pupils who were undertaking post-elementary education and this provision was reinforced by the 1918 Education Act which stipulated that inability to pay fees should not debar children and young persons from the benefits of any education by which they were capable of profiting.

Under the terms of the 1921 Education Act, authorities were required to ensure that suitable arrangements to this end were included in the schemes for elementary and higher education which they submitted to the then Board of Education. However, a further important provision of the 1918 Education Act was that the powers to assist pupils conferred by the 1902 Education Act should include the provision of maintenance allowances.

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