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Series
Board of Education, Medical Branch, and Ministry of Education, Special Services Branch:...
Catalogue reference: ED 133
What's it about?
ED 133
Files of the Board of Education, Medical Branch, and Ministry of Education, Special Services Branch relating to the provision of special schools and related problems in the individual local education authority areas.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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ED 133
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Title (The name of the record)
- Board of Education, Medical Branch, and Ministry of Education, Special Services Branch: Provision of Special Schools, Files
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Date (When the record was created)
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1900-1963
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Description (What the record is about)
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Files of the Board of Education, Medical Branch, and Ministry of Education, Special Services Branch relating to the provision of special schools and related problems in the individual local education authority areas.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Alphabetically in county and county borough order.
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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The files suffered much wartime destruction and very few pre-1936 papers have survived.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
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M file series
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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 Branch, 1923-1944
- Board of Education, Medical Department, 1907-1923
- 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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188 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
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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
- Education
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
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A few specimen files only have been included for the years 1956-1963.
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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 statutory foundation of special educational provision for handicapped children was laid in the last decade of the 19th Century and remained broadly unchanged until the Education Act 1944.
The Elementary Education (Blind and Deaf Children) Act 1893, laid upon every school authority the duty of providing education for blind and deaf children resident in the area in some school certified for the purpose by the Education Department.
The Elementary Education (Defective and Epileptic Children) Act 1899, empowered authorities to provide for the training of physically and mentally defective and epileptic children. These powers were made a duty in respect of mentally defective children by the Elementary Education (Defective and Epileptic Children) Act 1914, and in respect of physically defective and epileptic children by the Education Act 1918.
The implementation of the relevant sections of the Education Act 1944, and their subsequent modification in the Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Acts of 1948 and 1953, together with changes in provision engendered by the National Health Service Act 1946, marked the post war period of changing attitudes to the needs of special educational provision. The new procedures were laid down in the Handicapped Pupils and School Health Service Regulations 1945 and subsequent Regulations, further enactments being promulgated in 1953 and 1959.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C6932/
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