Board of Education: Local Education Authority Grant Scrutinies Files

ED 88

1920-1933

Board of Education precedent files containing H.M. Inspectors' reports, interview memoranda and correspondence, reports made by the Board of Education to Parliament, and correspondence and papers relating to the scrutiny of Local Education Authorities' claims for annual substantive grant (made in accordance with regulations introduced under Section 44 of the Education Act 1918, re-enacted as Section 118 of the Education Act 1921).

Few"general" or policy papers concerning the payment of grant are extant. The grant scrutiny files, however, provide examples of alleged parsimony of some authorities in whose areas the staffing was said to be so low as to bring schools to the verge of inefficiency. Some instances occurred of the deduction of grant and where the amount exceeded £500 or the product of a halfpenny rate, the Board of Education, under Section 44(5) of the Education Act 1918, re-enacted as Section 118(4) of the Education Act, 1921, were caused to lay before Parliament"a report stating the amount of and the reasons for the reduction or deduction".

The series was terminated by the introduction of revised financial provisions under the Education Act 1944.

By counties (including Part III Authorities) and county borough order for England and Wales followed by the Isle of Man.

Public Record(s)

English

115 file(s)

Topics

Education

Section 44 of the Education Act, 1918 (re-enacted as s 118 of the Education Act 1921) provided for the payment to Local Education Authorities, out of monies provided by parliament, of annual substantive grant in aid of education subject to the conditions and limitations prescribed by regulations.

Regulations for Substantive Grant (No. 1) and the Provisional Code of Regulations for Public Elementary Schools in England; Grant Regulations No. 8 [Grant Regulations No. 9 for Wales and Monmouthshire] were introduced in 1919 to deal with grants in agreement with the financial clauses of the Education Act, 1918 and the discontinuance of separate grants under previous Education Acts. Regulations for both England and Wales were incorporated in the Revised Code of Regulations for Public Elementary Schools for England and Wales (1926).

An amendment to the grant regulations was made in 1940, under s 118 of the Education Act 1921 to stabilise, in war conditions, the grant payable to each authority at a "standard percentage" - that is the proportion which the grant for the year 1937-1938 bore to the net expenditure as ascertained for that year.