Catalogue description Nursery Schools: 1981 dataset

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Details of ED 267/45
Reference: ED 267/45
Title: Nursery Schools: 1981 dataset
Description: This dataset consists of data gathered from nursery schools in England during the Schools' Census conducted by the Department of Education and Science in 1981. As in other Schools' Censuses, the enumeration date was the third Thursday in January (15 January 1981). The data reflects the position in nursery schools on that date. Nursery schools were defined by the Department of Education and Science as schools which "provide[d] education primarily for children below compulsory school age, i.e. under 5". The dataset contains data on 591 schools. It appears that these fell into the following categories: Nursery schools maintained by local education authorities (LEAs), whose expenditure was met by LEAs from local rates and central government grants. Statistics published by the Department of Education and Science indicate that there were 588 LEA maintained nursery schools in England at the time of the 1981 Schools' Census. Direct grant nursery schools, whose governing bodies were assisted by central government grants, and a proportion of pupils attending them did so free or under an arrangement whereby LEAs met their tuition fees. Department of Education statistics record that there were three direct grant nursery schools in England in 1981.The dataset consists of a single table (scennu81) which contains one record per school.
Date: 1981
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in The National Archives: CRDA/13/DS/3/1981
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Access conditions: Open on Transfer

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