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RefNoKCB/7C/A/19
AltRefNoCB/7C/A19
TitleBundle of correspondence concerning school attendance and changes to education law
DescriptionDistrict council business concernning the new law as to the employment and education of children:
-Copy of the bye-laws of Borough of Cambridge by the School Attendance Committee, 1878
-Circular from the Local Government Board to school boards concerning the alteratiob of the law of school attendance made by the Elementary Education Act 1893 to raise to 11 years the minimum age for exemption, Dec 1893
-Circular to school authorities regarding blind and deaf children and their school attendance, 1894
-Letter from W.R. Morrell applying for the role of School Attendance Officer, Apr 1899
-Report of the School Attendance Committee, May 1899
-Copy of Declaration of Deposit of Bye Laws, May 1899
-Letter from Norwich School Board to the School Attendance Committee concerning George Oates who has been summoned 40 times to appear before the Norwich Bench Magistrates Court for failing to send his children to school. The Secretary of State for the Home Department writes that George Oates has been warned that if he continues to receive summonses he will lose his job as warder at Cambridge Prison and that the district council instruct the officer, May 1899
-Letters concerning Ethel Ivatt, Sept 1899
-Byelaws made by the School Attendance Committee for the Union of Chesterton
-Letter concerning Arthur Charles Drury, Feb 1900
-Minute of the Committee of Council on Education, printed by the Education Department, Feb 1900
-Circular from the Education Department, Whitehall concerning 'Defective and Epileptic Children', Mar 1900
-Official copy of the Regulations as to 'Boarding-Out Defective Children', 1900
-Letter regarding Arthur Charles Drury, Feb 1900
-Meeting of School Committee. Mainly concerns school absences; Frank Phillips and Claude Phillips, Percy Parsons and Arthur Clark Drury, Mar 1901
-Letters concerning the Haylock boys and which school to attend and it was decided they will attend Castle Edn School, Mar 1901
-Letter representing the School Attendance Committee states Castle End School that due to the misconduct of the Haylock boys they will not be admitted to Castle End School, Apr 1901
-Published printed report of East London Home for Blind Children, 1901-1901
-Letter of resignation from W.R.Morrell as School Attendance Officer, Oct 1901
-Thank you letter from J.Miller for the appointment as School Attendance Officer, Dec 1901
-Letter from C.Willmott, headteacher of Old Chesterton Girls' School, concerning Daisy Warren, Feb 1902
-Letter from A.Swainson, chairman of the School Attendance Committee, informing the council of Alfred Chapman's expulsion from school due to abusive and disorderly conduct, Nov 1902
-Letter from J.Miller confirming the age of Percy Parsons when the order was made for him to be sent to Industrial School, Oct 1903
-Letter from Office of Clerk of the County Council instructed by the Cambridge County Education Committee to abolish the office of clerk to the Chesterton Urban District Council, Nov 1903
-A copy of Knight and Co's model form of byelaws for school board or school attendance Committee to purchase
Date1878-1904
CreatorNameChesterton Urban District Council and predecessors
RepositoryCambridgeshire Archives
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