Catalogue description Board of Education and Ministry of Education: Local Education Authority Establishment of Education Committees, Registered Files (G Series)

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Reference: ED 139
Title: Board of Education and Ministry of Education: Local Education Authority Establishment of Education Committees, Registered Files (G Series)
Description:

Board of Education and Ministry of Education registered files relating to the setting up of Education Committees by Local Education Authorities under the Education Act 1902.

The files contain schemes for such committees submitted to the Board of Education for approval, and any subsequent amendments.

The reorganisation of local government under the London Government Act 1963, resulted in a new series of files covering the Greater London Boroughs.
Date: 1902-1966
Arrangement:

In alphabetical order of counties and county boroughs. Files coverning the Greater London Boroughs can be found at the end of this series.
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: G file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Board of Education, 1899-1944

Ministry of Education, 1944-1964
Physical description: 669 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Administrative / biographical background:

Each county council and county borough council and the council of each borough and urban district which became a Local Education Authority under Section 1 of the Education Act, 1902, was required by Section 17 of that Act to establish an Education Committee or committees by schemes approved by the Board of Education.

Subsequently the number of Local Education Authorities was greatly reduced under the provisions of Part II Section 6 and the First Schedule of the Education Act 1944, when most of the Local Education Authorities of borough and urban districts became absorbed into the respective county authorities on the 1st April 1945 when Part II of the Act came into operation.

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