Catalogue description Ministry of Education and Department of Education and Science: HM Inspectorate: Reports on Special Education Establishments

Reports of HM Inspectorate on special education establishments providing schooling for children with hearing or visual impairment or other physical handicap, and also for children with more general learning difficulties.

Also included are more general reports and surveys relating to special education in particular areas.

• The names of these schools indicate the type of pupil for whom they cater, either directly or by the use of one or more of the following abbreviations:
• DEL- Delicate
• EP- Epileptic
• ESN- Educationally sub-normal
• MAL- Maladjusted
• PD- Physically defective
• PH- Physically handicapped
• PS- Partially sighted

Inspectorate reports of earlier date can be found within the special school files in:

Later reports produced by HM Inspectorate on special educational establishments in Wales are in BD 71

ED 32

ED 122

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

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

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