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Series
Board of Education and successors: Elementary Education: Poor Law School Files
Catalogue reference: ED 132
What's it about?
ED 132
Board of Education Poor Law School files relating to the inspection of the educational and industrial work of these schools.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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ED 132
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Title (The name of the record)
- Board of Education and successors: Elementary Education: Poor Law School Files
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Date (When the record was created)
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1904-1953
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Description (What the record is about)
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Board of Education Poor Law School files relating to the inspection of the educational and industrial work of these schools.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Numerically in separate series for 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)
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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
- Ministry of Education, 1944-1964
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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25 file(s)
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
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These are all the Poor Law School Files to have survived.
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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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Poor Law Schools were provided and maintained by the Guardians of the Poor, either attached to workhouses or as separate schools. In 1904 the inspection of the educational and industrial work of these schools was transferred to the Board of Education from the Local Government Board. The Local Government Board, later the Ministry of Health, continued to be responsible for the institutional side.
The Local Government Act, 1929, transferred the functions of the Poor Law Authorities to the councils of counties and county boroughs. The remaining Poor Law Schools were administered under Section 53 of the Poor Law Act, 1930 and were statutorily subject to inspection by H.M. Inspectors.
The Poor Law was superseded by the National Assistance Act, 1948, and by virtue of paragraph 8 of the Second Schedule of the Childrens Act, 1948, the remaining Poor Law Schools passed to the Childrens Authorities. The provision of education was not included under the Childrens Act and the schools were either closed or became recognised maintained schools.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C6931/
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