Minutes of the Education Committee

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Reference code(s): LCC/MIN/2883-2953

Title: Minutes of the Education Committee

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Level of description: Fonds

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Name of creator(s): London County Council

Administrative/Biographical history: Prior to the 1904, the functions of the LCC in relation to education were confined to the management of two industrial and reformatory schools and its interest in higher education exercised through the Technical Education Board on which its representatives were in a majority. The Education (London) Act 1903 transferred to the LCC the powers and responsibilities of both the school Board for London and the Technical Board of Education. Under the Act the Council was to exercise its powers through an Education Committee and this lasted until 1965 when the functions of the Council in relation to education were taken over by the Inner London Education Authority under the provisions of the London Government Act, 1963.The London County Council was abolished in 1965 and responsibility for education with the former County of London was transferred to the Inner London Education Authority who maintained responsibility until 1990 when the burden of responsibility was shifted to the inner London Borough councils and the Corporation of London

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Scope and content: Records comprise of minutes, presented papers, and reports from the various committees and sub- committees. The subcommittees include the Elementary sub-committee, the Day school sub-committee, Endowments sub-committee, Further education sub-committee, Non-provided schools sub-committee, Polytechnic and Evening schools sub-committee, Primary Education sub-committee, Remand homes special sub-committee, Schools planning sub-committee, Special Schools sub-committee, Staff sub-committee, Teaching staff sub -committee, Training of Teachers sub-committee, and the General Committee. The records for the Special and Industrial Schools are closed (without any date as to when they would be opened).

File and item-level records of note in this collection include:

Agenda Papers (Ref: LCC/MIN2886, 1961 - 1965)

The file contains various sub-committee periodical reports, including a report entitled, 'Commonwealth Technical Training Week' (dated June 28th, 1961). The report details the events scheduled during the week, including those of a 'distinctive Commonwealth character' and those of a 'national character'. The majority of exhibitions were arranged by Youth Employment committees, technical colleges, or secondary schools. The report goes on to state that the numbers attending ranged from 7,600 to 20,550. Receptions were also held in many of the London borough councils and were attended by MPs and representatives from leading industrial and technical organisations.

Education Sub - Committee/ Primary Education/Presented Papers (Ref: LCC/MIN/3771, 1964-1965)

Includes records covering school inspections, applications from parents requesting public money for boarding schools for their children and reports from numerous associations. Included is a paper is entitled, 'London County Council. Children of Families from Overseas. Education Committee - Primary and Secondary Schools Sub-Committee' (dated September 1964). The report was written in response to a questionnaire sent out the previous year to all the Heads of county and voluntary schools requesting details about the number of children of families from overseas. 'Overseas' pertains to those who arrived in the UK since 1950 and it excludes those from Ireland.

The report states that in county as a whole, less than half the infants' and junior schools have 10% of more overseas children. The report goes on to state that a quarter of places in Islington have over 40% or more children from overseas and in such places measures must be taken to ensure that the children are catered for, and that more teachers are hired.

Included in the appendix is a list of schools, divided first according to boroughs and then by school divisions (1 - 9). In the table concerning primary children, the groups of overseas children are divided into the following categories: Cypriot, Indian and Pakistani, Italian, West Indian and others. The West Indians rank the higher in all the divisions. The Indians and Pakistani are second highest of all the divisions save two (Div 7 and Div 2).Islington, Stoke Newington, Lambeth, and Paddington had the highest number of 'overseas' young people attending Secondary School.

Also in the appendix is a tables entitled 'Secondary Schools with 10% or more of overseas children at January 1964', 'Infants' and Junior Infants' schools with 10% or more overseas children and the proportion of overseas children' (includes schools with 20 - 30 and 50% overseas children at plus 5 years), and lastly, 'Summary of 255 primary schools with at least 10% children of families from overseas on roll, showing their proportion of overseas children at five plus'.

In all cases the term 'overseas' is in inverted comas.

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Conditions governing access: Thirty year closure on some records

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Language/scripts of material: English

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Finding aids: 'An outline of Sources for the history of Education in London Metropolitan Archives' which details the LCC archive collection on education, and key printed sources that will help in narrowing down the area of study

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Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: June 2000

Interest: Caribbean, Black, Asian

Specific group: Pakinstani, African-Caribbean and Indian children

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Asian peoples

Black peoples

Secondary education

Primary education

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London, United Kingdom