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Board of Education: Secondary Education, Local Education Authority Grant Files
Catalogue reference: ED 59
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ED 59
Board of Education papers concerning the administration of grant aid to non-provided secondary schools by Local Education Authorities which was recognised for the purposes of Deficiency Grant, and arrangements whereby the board paid grant direct...
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- ED 59
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Title (The name of the record)
- Board of Education: Secondary Education, Local Education Authority Grant Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1921-1934
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Description (What the record is about)
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Board of Education papers concerning the administration of grant aid to non-provided secondary schools by Local Education Authorities which was recognised for the purposes of Deficiency Grant, and arrangements whereby the board paid grant direct to certain schools.
The 'Grant' files for English Local Education Authorities commenced as a separate series in 1921; those for Welsh authorities in 1924. The files record the anxieties of Local Education Authorities and school managers during the transitional period of adjustment to new conditions of grant aid, and the disallowance for grant purposes, under the Economy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1926, of expenditure deemed to be extravagant.
After 1931 the files consist largely of standard application forms.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
By counties in England and Wales.
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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)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Board of Education, 1899-1944
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 141 file(s)
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- Topics
- Education
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- Only a few files after 1931 have been preserved.
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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 Board of Educations's policy expressed in Circulars 1230 (1921), 1259 (1922) and 1381 (1926) attempted to rationalise the payment of substantive and deficiency grant, as defined by Section 44 of the Education Act, 1918. Circular 1259 stated that either a substantive or a deficiency grant would be paid but not both, and in 1926 schools were required to choose between direct payment by the board or aid by the Local Education Authority.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C6858/
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