| StorageSite | UCL Institute of Education |
| Level | File |
| Reference Number | UWT/D/29/7 |
| Title | 'Air Raid Precautions' |
| Date | 1938 - 1941 |
| Description | Correspondence between Ethel Froud and A. Muriel Pierotti (NUWT), NUWT branch members including Helen Dedman and Florence Key, various Local County Councils, the Ministry of Health, and the Association of Education Committees regarding Air Raid Precautions (ARP) and the proposed use of schools for first-aid and decontamination centres. The NUWT policy was that if hostilities started then the priority for teachers was that the education of children should not be interrupted. In a circular sent to the Home Office and other individuals and organisations they stated that the use of educational buildings as First Aid stations should not be permitted.
The correspondence covers:
Air Raid Precautions
Evacuation of schools
School holidays for evacuated children and teachers
Requests for advice on NUWT policy and individual involvement
Reports from NUWT members of the implementation of evacuation and billeting of school children in their districts and schools
NUWT concerns over the responsibility places on teachers with regards to fire precautions in schools
Outline from various County Council's of their implementation of ARP, with some giving particular reference to the 'fire precautions' section of the Government issued order on fire defence
Reports from NUWT members of the implementation of Government orders on fire precuations in schools and teacher's involvement in this
Fire watching in schools
Request to members that in the event of receiving instructions from their Local Authority with regards to ARP then they should contact NUWT Headquarters immediately
Women's Voluntary Services for ARP and involvement of women's organisations in ARP
Enquiry regarding the legal position of a teacher is they refused to take part in gas mask drills in schools, 1938
'Analysis of replies to questionnaire on Air Raid Precautions
Typed copies of the responses from various Local Education Authorities to Government ARP proposals
NUWT request for representation on an ADvisory Committee set on for the evacuation of school children
NUWT Circular 'Educate the Children', sent to Editor's of newspapers
Reports of problems with the billeting scheme - summarised in NUWT Central Council reports
NUWT circular urging for the return of evacuated children from the east and south-east coasts as they do not feel these areas are safer or provide adequate facilities
Press cuttings regarding:
Fire watching in schools
Evacuation - responsibilities of teachers
ARP
Teachers and National Service
Evacuation schemes for schools - reports of the implementation of these by various Local Education Authorities
Reports of problems with the billeting of children
Reports of low figures of parents registering their children for evacuation
Discussion over billets or school camps for children
Radio schools for children in war time
Report on Evacuation in 'The Woman Teacher', 15/11/1940 by a school teachers and NUWT Organiser, G. Evans
Evacuation of children to foreign countries
Air raid shelters - concerns over safety and health issues
Publications and reports:
'Evacuation: the under fives', fourth report of the Evacuation Committee of the Association of Archivects, Surveyors and Technical Assistants (AASTA)
'Evacuation in Practice - Study of a Rural Reception Area', prepared by the Evacuation Committee of the AASTA
Air Raid Defence League publications 'The Shelter Problem' and 'An Outline of Civil Defence', 1939
Government circulars, memoranda, reports and statutory rules and orders including:
'Emergency Powers (Defence) - Civil Defence', 1941
'Emergency Powers (Defence) - Fire Precautions', 1941
'Emergency Powers (Defence) - General Regulations', 1941
'Air Raid Precautions in Schools and other Problems arising out of the War', 1940
'The use and care of Government Gas Masks', 1938
Government evacuation scheme - return of children to certain evacuated areas
Travel grants and billeting allowances for evacuated teachers
School holidays for evacuated children and teachers
Adjusting expenditure between Local Authorities in respect of evacuees
'Report of Committee on Evacuation', Home Office, 1938 |
| Extent | 3 folders |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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