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Admin History:

This committee was appointed in October 1870 to consider the implications of the recently passed Elementary Education Act. As part of this act, councils or poor law unions were required to collect information on the number of children between the ages of 5-12 years of age and any existing elementary schools in their areas. Hull appointed an individual to undertake this task. As a consequence of this, the committee urged the council to petition for the establishment of a school board for the area to fill the gap between need and requirement. This the council did, and as a result the Hull School Board was later established along with boards for the Newington and Stoneferry and Sutton areas of Hull as well. Having reported back, the committee was dissolved in December 1870, although it would return in 1902 as a sub-committee of the Education Committee when the school boards were abolished and their functions were taken over by the city council.

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Committee records; reports, correspondence and applications for a post