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Series
Department of Education and Science: Schools Branches: Committee Records
Catalogue reference: ED 282
What's it about?
ED 282
This series contains the records of a number of committees and other short lived bodies which were set up by the Department of Education and Science and administered by its various Schools Branches. It includes records concerned with the...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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ED 282
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Title (The name of the record)
- Department of Education and Science: Schools Branches: Committee Records
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Date (When the record was created)
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1974-1989
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains the records of a number of committees and other short lived bodies which were set up by the Department of Education and Science and administered by its various Schools Branches. It includes records concerned with the management of schools and nursery education as well as those of the Committee of Inquiry into the Education of Children from Ethnic Minority Groups (known as the Rampton Committee), 1979-1983.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Records of the Bullock Committee into Reading and Use of English are in ED 256
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Department of Education and Science, Schools Branch 1, 1973-1992
- Department of Education and Science, Schools Branch 2, 1973-1992
- Department of Education and Science, Schools Branch 3, 1975-1992
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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101 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2004 Department for Education and Skills
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Race relations
- Children
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Series is accruing
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16169/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
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Within the department: ED
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