Ellen Pinsent: including the ‘feebleminded’ in Birmingham, 1900–19131

Payment by Results in Nineteenth-Century British Education: A Study in How Priorities Change

“…As well as opening up opportunities for local officials to contribute to policy development, this reform created a distinction between two groups of schools. 148 Th e fi rst group was dependent on the state's direct funding through payment by results and from any money that could be raised charitably locally (school fees were eliminated in the early 1890s). Th e second group of schools received local funding from local taxation in addition to their central government payment by results funding.…”

Review of periodical literature published in 2005

“…Vernon’s article makes many important points about school meals after 1945, as well as the period covered by this review. Both Brown and Goodman examine aspects of special education provision, the latter in a special issue of History of Education devoted to the topic. Focusing on the emergence of a single piece of legislation—the National Insurance Act 1911—Hellwig attempts to explain why the unemployment insurance scheme was so limited in its coverage, and why it was a contributory system rather than a voluntary one.…”