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Department of Education and Science and predecessors: Medical Branch and Special...
Catalogue reference: ED 32
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ED 32
Files of the Department of Education and Science and predecessors, Medical Branch and Special Services Branch containing applications for recognition as special schools under the Elementary Education (Blind and Deaf Children) Act 1893, the...
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ED 32
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Title (The name of the record)
- Department of Education and Science and predecessors: Medical Branch and Special Services Branch: Special Schools' Files
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Date (When the record was created)
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1894-1973
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Description (What the record is about)
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Files of the Department of Education and Science and predecessors, Medical Branch and Special Services Branch containing applications for recognition as special schools under the Elementary Education (Blind and Deaf Children) Act 1893, the Elementary Education (Defective and Epileptic Children) Act 1899, and s.61 of the Education Act 1921.
The series also includes inspection reports, administrative correspondence and papers and routine papers relating to individual schools.
- From piece 1040 onwards the following abbreviations qualifying type of school have been used:
- MD - Mentally Defective, later ESN - Educationally Sub Normal
- PD - Physically Defective, later PH - Physically Handicapped
- PS - Partially Sighted
- Del - Delicate
- Mal - Maladjusted
- Ep - Epileptic
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
In the main, files up to 1946 are arranged by controlling authorities in alphabetical and county order. After 1946, in consequence of a major change in the registration system in 1953, the files are arranged as far as possible in numerical sequence in county and county borough order
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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HM Inspectorate reports on special education establishments are in ED 195
For files relating to the Welsh Department special schools see ED 224
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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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- Board of Education, 1899-1944
- Board of Education, Medical Department, 1907-1923
- Board of Education, Medical Department, 1923-1944
- Department of Education and Science, Medical Branch, 1970-1972
- Department of Education and Science, Special Education Branch, 1970-1972
- Department of Education and Science, Special Services Branch, 1964-1970
- Ministry of Education, Medical Branch, 1944-1948
- Ministry of Education, Special Services Branch, 1948-1964
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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2526 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
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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
- Children
- Disability
- Education
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
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Early papers have been heavily weeded.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The Elementary Education (Blind and Deaf Children) Act 1893, placed a duty upon every school authority to enable blind and deaf children to obtain education 'in some school for the time being certified by the Education Department as suitable for providing such education'.
The Elementary Education (Defective and Epileptic Children) Act 1899, gave school authorities power to ascertain such children to make suitable provision for their education by special classes in public elementary schools, and to aid or establish special schools certified by the Department.
Under section 61 of the Education Act 1921 compulsory education for children suffering from these handicaps was extended to the age of 16. Special educational provisions were re-enacted in sections 33 and 34 of the Education Act 1944 replacing in general the provisions of Part V of the Education Act 1921. These sections were deemed to 'open the way to fuller and better provision for children handicapped by physical or mental disabilities'.
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Regulations for special schools and lists of certified schools for blind, deaf, handicapped and epileptic children were initially issued as Command Papers, copies of which may be seen in the Department's Library. An explanatory memo issued with the Education Act 1921 relating to special educational provisions is in Cmd 6492, p 8, 1943.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C6831/
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