ABSTRACT
Local authorities pay for most education in the public sector. In turn, they are reimbursed for a great deal of their outlay by the central government. In this chapter we summarize the development of the proportions of local, central and other finance (private education is dealt with elsewhere); we then consider the changes which have taken place in the methods of finance in our period; and lastly we consider the effects of these changes on the control of education, and how far they are relevant to modern administrative principles and techniques. This last is a large topic, and we treat it cursorily, because a further examination is made by the present author elsewhere.1 It is an extremely important subject and relevant to our main theme-the development of expenditure on education and the relative success or failure of this expenditure in fulfilling the purposes of the Education Acts.
