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Series
Aid to Pupils: Local Education Authority Files
Catalogue reference: ED 63
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ED 63
Board of Education and Ministry of Education files relating to the provision by local education authorities of maintenance and other allowances, to children and young persons undertaking post-elementary education, who were in need of financial...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- ED 63
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Title (The name of the record)
- Aid to Pupils: Local Education Authority Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1919-1955
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Description (What the record is about)
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Board of Education and Ministry of Education files relating to the provision by local education authorities of maintenance and other allowances, to children and young persons undertaking post-elementary education, who were in need of financial assistance.
The files contain details of schemes for assistance to pupils, and annual returns and estimates of expenditure submitted to the Board of Education by local education authorities. Some papers relate to the Isle of Man.
For the period after 1936 only complete representative specimen files have been preserved. These relate mainly to maintenance allowances.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Alphabetically by counties and county boroughs 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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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 166 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
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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 1902 Education Act empowered local education authorities to pay, or assist in paying, fees for pupils who were undertaking post-elementary education and this provision was reinforced by the 1918 Education Act which stipulated that inability to pay fees should not debar children and young persons from the benefits of any education by which they were capable of profiting.
Under the terms of the 1921 Education Act, authorities were required to ensure that suitable arrangements to this end were included in the schemes for elementary and higher education which they submitted to the then Board of Education. However, a further important provision of the 1918 Education Act was that the powers to assist pupils conferred by the 1902 Education Act should include the provision of maintenance allowances.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C6862/
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