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Nursery Schools: 1981 dataset

Catalogue reference: ED 267/45

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This record is about the Nursery Schools: 1981 dataset dating from 1981 in the series Department of Education and Science and successors: Statistics Branch: Schools' Census.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
ED 267/45
Title
Nursery Schools: 1981 dataset
Date
1981
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.
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The National Archives, Kew
Former reference
CRDA/13/DS/3/1981
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Access conditions
Open on Transfer
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Subjects
Topics
Children
Education
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11516920/

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