From File 'Education Act 1944: Reports of Fleming Committee, GBGSA etc' Papers regarding the initial affect of the 1944 Education Act on the Trust and the Fleming Report on Public Schools. The papers were split into separate folders as follows: I) Memorandum submitted and evidence submitted by the Trust to the Fleming Committee, including drafts of the memorandum and correspondence regarding the committee and proposals to abolish school fees; memoranda presented to the Fleming Committee by the Association of Head Mistresses and the Association of Governing Bodies of Girls' Public Schools (GBGSA). II) annotated copy of the Education Bill; annotated white paper on 'Principles of Government in Maintained Secondary Schools'; memorandum and notes by the Trust regarding educational reconstruction, the Education Bill, and the report of the Fleming Committee; annotated white paper on Education Reconstruction with inserted manuscript notes on important paragraphs; correspondence regarding the Education Bill; rough meetings of Council meetings regarding the Education Bill and the proposed abolition of grant-allied schools; table of assistance given to Trust schools by local education authorities; III) Report of the Fleming Committee; memorandum on points about the finance of the Trust; annotated memorandum on the constitution of the Trust; draft of memorandum presented to the Fleming Committee; note on discussion with the GBGSA; draft regulations to be applicable to Direct Grant Schools'; manuscript notes on the draft regulations and the settlement of new salary scales; correspondence with Head Mistresses' reading regional Direct Grant school meetings; press cuttings regarding the post-war educational reconstruction. 1942-1945