Catalogue description Welsh Office: Welsh Education Office and Successors: Schools Division: Registered Files (EWL Series)

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Reference: BD 124
Title: Welsh Office: Welsh Education Office and Successors: Schools Division: Registered Files (EWL Series)
Description:

This series consists of registered files relating to encouraging the use of Welsh in areas other than education, and includes the creation of the Welsh Language Board; the use of Welsh in the public sector; Welsh Language Act 1993 and Welsh language Schemes; equal status of Welsh and English; Welsh speaking community in Patagonia; and funding of S4C, the fourth TV channel in Wales.
Date: 1978-1999
Arrangement:

The records are arranged chronologically and in file prefix order.
Related material:

See also:

BD 84

BD 91
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: EWL Series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English and Welsh
Creator:

Welsh Office, Education Department, 1978-1999
Physical description: 49 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

In 2018 Welsh Government
Custodial history: Records were stored at Cathays Park 2, Cardiff, Wales, and for a brief period (1997 to 2012) at Neptune Point Storage Facilty in Ocean Way, Cardiff, Wales.
Selection and destruction information: RCP, s.3.1.1 - the principal policies and actions of the UK central government and English and Welsh Governments. Section 5.10 of OSP 7 (Welsh Office) – Cultural matters, including responsibilities relating to the Welsh language. Records relating to the formulation and implementation of policies intended to safeguard and encourage the use of the Welsh language were selected.
Accruals: No further accruals are anticipated.
Administrative / biographical background:

The Welsh Education Office had five divisional areas working within it. These were:

Schools Division, covering the administration of government policy concerning all matters relating to maintained, voluntary independent schools in Wales except building programmes; matters relating to the curriclum and examinations.

Further Education Division 1, covering higher education; supply and training of teachers; liaison with the University of Wales; UGC and CNAA; tuition fees and other student matters.

Further Education Division 2, covering non advanced further education; 16 to 19 years provision of education; student grants; liaison with the Manpower Services Commission; adult education (including state bursaries); youth service; grants for village halls and community centres.

Education Services Division, covering educational building; school meals, milk, transport and other benefits; publications; statistics, research; external relations.

HM Inspectorate, covering professional advice to the Secretary of State on all educational matters; assessing the educational process in all educational institutions other than universities through inspection and reporting; specialist and general advice to teachers, institutions and local education authorities through visits, courses and publications; liaison with local education authorities and other statutory and voluntary bodies concerned with education.

By 1984 responsibility for Welsh language education had moved to the Education Services Division. In 1995, the Education Services Division was disbanded, with responsibility for Welsh language education being passed to the newly created Culture and Recreation Division within the Welsh Education Office.

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