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Welsh Office and predecessors: HM Inspectorate of Schools: Unregistered Papers

Catalogue reference: BD 50

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BD 50

This series contains unregistered papers produced by individual HM Inspectors while they were carrying out their routine duties in Wales. They include handwritten notes relating both to routine pastoral visits and the initial drafts of formal...

Full description and record details

Reference
BD 50
Title
Welsh Office and predecessors: HM Inspectorate of Schools: Unregistered Papers
Date
1912-1992
Description

This series contains unregistered papers produced by individual HM Inspectors while they were carrying out their routine duties in Wales. They include handwritten notes relating both to routine pastoral visits and the initial drafts of formal inspection reports, working notes and papers, and correspondence relating to all types of schools and related institutions. All types of individual schools (infants, junior and secondary; local education authority and independent) are covered in this series, as are youth clubs and centres. The series also contains the result of a survey of the Welsh language in Glamorgan carried out in 1938, and surveys relating to the teaching of Welsh in the counties of South Wales.

Arrangement
Arrangement

The records are arranged in the same order in which they were sent to the Welsh Office Record Centre in 1990.

The papers are arranged by local education authorities that were in existence when the records were created for all counties, the LEA number relevant to each county when the file was created have been added incorporating boundary changes. Counties are alphabetically arranged within present border parameters. The school number categorises the type of school.

Related material

See also the Board of Education and successors,

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Creator(s)
  • Department of Education and Science, Her Majestys Inspectorate of Schools, 1964-1970
  • Welsh Office, Her Majestys Inspectorate of Schools, 1970-1992
Physical description
1233 file(s)
Access conditions
Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition

from 2004 National Assembly for Wales

from 1996 Welsh Office

Subjects
Topics
Children
Education
Custodial history
The records were passed to the Welsh Office from the various regional offices
Accruals
Series is accruing
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2826/

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Over 27 million records

This record is held at The National Archives, Kew

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Within the department: BD

Records created or inherited by the Welsh Office and the Wales Office

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Welsh Office and predecessors: HM Inspectorate of Schools: Unregistered Papers

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