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Series
Ministry of Education and Department of Education and Science: Welsh Department and...
Catalogue reference: ED 224
What's it about?
ED 224
Files of the Ministry of Education and Department of Education and Science Welsh Department and successors relating to special schools in Wales.They refer to a number of different types of school, mostly residential, including hospital schools...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- ED 224
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Education and Department of Education and Science: Welsh Department and successors: Special Schools, Registered Files (M and WM Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1904-1976
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Description (What the record is about)
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Files of the Ministry of Education and Department of Education and Science Welsh Department and successors relating to special schools in Wales.
They refer to a number of different types of school, mostly residential, including hospital schools for the sick, schools for blind and deaf children as well as those for the educationally disabled and maladjusted.
The correspondence on the files deals with a wide variety of topics including the administration of the premises and other accommodation matters, financial concerns and details of staffing. Some contain copies of inspection reports.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Numerically in county and county borough order within each transfer.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Medical Branch Special Services files are in ED 50 ED 62
Special Services Branch, Training Establishments for Handicapped Persons files are in
For Department of Education and Science and predecessors files concerning special schools see ED 32
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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)
- M file series and WM file series
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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)
- 75 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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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
- Children
- Disability
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C7023/
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Ministry of Education and Department of Education and Science: Welsh Department and successors: Special Schools, Registered Files (M and WM Series)
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