Catalogue description Department of Education and Science and predecessors: HM Inspectorate: Unregistered papers from Regional Offices

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Reference: ED 233
Title: Department of Education and Science and predecessors: HM Inspectorate: Unregistered papers from Regional Offices
Description:

Unregistered papers from regional offices of the Department of Education and Science and predecessors compiled and used by individual inspectors in their day to day work.

These papers are the raw working material for the Inspectorate's main function; to advise the Department of Education and Science and local education authorities. They reflect the work of the inspectors' regional offices which includes surveys of educational provision over a division-wide area.

The reports and correspondence cover a wide selection of topics, which often illustrate the concerns of the period during which they were created, including the reorganisation of secondary education, employment of graduate teachers, educational provisions for ethnic minorities, juvenile delinquency and the work of Museums Educational services.

Date: 1840-1978
Arrangement:

No discernible order

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Board of Education, HM Inspectors of Schools, 1899-1923

Board of Education, Inspectorate (England), 1923-1944

Board of Education, Inspectorate (Wales), 1923-1944

Committee of the Privy Council on Education, HM Inspectors of Schools, 1839-1899

Department of Education and Science, HM Inspectorate (England), 1964-1973

Department of Education and Science, HM Inspectorate (Wales), 1964-1973

Department of Education and Science, HM Inspectorate of Schools (England), 1973-1992

Department of Education and Science, HM Inspectorate of Schools (Wales), 1973-1992

Education Department, HM Inspectors of Schools, 1856-1899

Ministry of Education, Inspectorate (England), 1944-1964

Ministry of Education, Inspectorate (Wales), 1944-1964

Physical description: 24 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

Pieces 1-21 were transferred by the Department for Education and Employment in 1998. Pieces 22-24 were transferred from the Guildford Regional Office of Ofsted.

Custodial history: Papers were originally stored in local offices of the Inspectorate, some from offices within the London area but also from at least one local office in the north. They were transferred to the Department of Education and Science's record store at Hayes, around 1992 at the time when the Inspectorate was wound up.

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