ABSTRACT
The three major tiers of the education service are the Department of Education and Science, responsible for national policy, the local education authority which administers services within a particular area, and the educational institutions — schools, colleges and centres catering for the educational needs of particular groups. The concept of corporate objectives at local authority level is suggested in the Bains Report and to judge by the number of advertisements appearing for corporate planners, program analysts and the like, many new authorities are now taking the Bains path to corporate management. The White Paper “Educational Reconstruction” of 1943, the forerunner of the 1944 Act, had very little to say about planning the use of resources. It was mainly concerned with the statutory foundations on which the post-war education service was to be built. By the mid-1950’s the dismantling of war-time controls was complete and it became possible to develop an economic planning machine more appropriate to long term use.
