ABSTRACT
Within the framework of local government significant changes have taken place. Power and responsibility have shifted from the county district councils to the county councils. The Education Act, 1944, made county councils and county boroughs local education authorities for all purposes and eliminated the boroughs and urban districts which were formerly responsible in many areas for elementary education only. The Police Act, 1946, abolished 47 police forces maintained by non-county boroughs and transferred the power previously possessed by those boroughs to the county police authorities. Formerly, fire brigades were provided by county district councils until they were taken over by the central government during the Second World War. County district councils have since 1944 ceased to be local authorities for education, police, fire services, town and country planning, and health services.
