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Reference
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ED 156
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Title
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Ministry of Education and Department of Education and Science: HM Inspectorate: Reports on Primary Institutions
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Date
(When the record was created)
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1946-1993
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Description
(What the record is about)
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Ministry of Education and Department of Education and Science HM Inspectorate reports on the full and interim inspection of local education authority and non-local education authority maintained primary schools in England, Wales and Hong Kong, under the provisions of section 77 of the Education Act 1944.
The papers include some reports on all-age schools that survived the 1944 Education Act (the Act introduced, inter alia, the division between primary and secondary education at the eleven-plus age).
For the period 1956-1965 the reports have been transferred into single-year pieces, reflecting the large number of full school inspections performed during those years.
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Arrangement
(Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
By counties (and, from 1956, by county boroughs) of England and Wales, the sequence being repeated for successive transfers: within a county or county borough, the records are arranged in alphabetical order of district.
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Related material
(A cross-reference to other related records)
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For reports produced by the HM Inspectorate of Schools for Wales on primary schools, following the transfer of responsibilities to the Welsh office in 1970, see
BD 17
Further HMI Inspectorate reports are in
ED 161
Reports on the inspection of elementary schools prior to 1944, under the provision of section 7 of the Elementary Education Act 1870, may be found in
ED 21
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Held by
(Who holds the record)
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The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status
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Public Record(s)
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Language
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English
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Creator(s)
(The creator of the record)
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- Department of Education and Science, HM Inspectorate (England), 1964-1973
- Department of Education and Science, HM Inspectorate (Wales), 1964-1973
- Department of Education and Science, HM Inspectorate of Schools (England), 1973-1992
- Department of Education and Science, HM Inspectorate of Schools (Wales), 1973-1992
- Ministry of Education, Inspectorate (England), 1944-1964
- Ministry of Education, Inspectorate (Wales), 1944-1964
- Office for Standards in Education, 1992-1992
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Physical description
(The amount and form of the record)
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1200 files and volumes
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Access conditions
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Subject to 30 year closure
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Subjects
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- Topics
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Asia
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Education
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Record URL
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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C6955/