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| AdminHistory | In 1967 the Plowden report recommended the formation of Educational Priority Areas (EPA). EPAs were identified as deprived areas which would be provided a programme of positive discrimination based on a new distribution of educational resources to be used for building, improved staffing, supplementing teachers' salaries and the development of community-based teaching and learning strategies. Conisbrough near Doncaster, South Yorkshire was identified as an EPA, and, due to the raising of the legal school leaving age (also known as ROSLA) to 16 in 1972-1973, became the focus for an experiment to educated 15 year olds who no longer saw any relevance in school based education. The Terrace was part of a joint experimental ROSLA scheme established by Royston Lambert, Head of Dartington Hall School (a progressive boarding school in Conisbrough, open 1926-1987) and Sir Alec Clegg, Director of Education for the West Riding of Yorkshire at the Northcliffe Comprehensive School, Conisbrough, to provide an alternative to school based education. The Terrace was run by two wardens, Dick and Pat Kitto who ran it as 'a residential home where a group of adults and children live and learn together'. The Terrace closed after the 1974 local government reorganisation put an end to the West Riding of Yorkshire authority, and the trustees of Dartington Hall could no longer afford to run the scheme. |