Catalogue description Ministry of Education and Department of Education and Science: Welsh Department and successors: Special Schools, Registered Files (M and WM Series)

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Details of ED 224
Reference: ED 224
Title: Ministry of Education and Department of Education and Science: Welsh Department and successors: Special Schools, Registered Files (M and WM Series)
Description:

Files of the Ministry of Education and Department of Education and Science Welsh Department and successors relating to special schools in Wales.

They refer to a number of different types of school, mostly residential, including hospital schools for the sick, schools for blind and deaf children as well as those for the educationally disabled and maladjusted.

The correspondence on the files deals with a wide variety of topics including the administration of the premises and other accommodation matters, financial concerns and details of staffing. Some contain copies of inspection reports.

Date: 1904-1976
Arrangement:

Numerically in county and county borough order within each transfer.

Related material:

Special Services Branch, Training Establishments for Handicapped Persons files are in

For Department of Education and Science and predecessors files concerning special schools see ED 32

Medical Branch Special Services files are in ED 50

ED 62

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: M file series and WM file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 75 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated

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