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This chapter seeks to treat with what happened to the education service in Wales following devolution. The text is by the author of Chapters 1 and 2 who now lives in Swansea, having also done so shortly after the enactment of the 1944 legislation. In terms of the overall historical narrative of this book, it accordingly focusses primarily on the third phase.
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McCloy, R. (2018). Wales Since Devolution: Too Many Cooks in the Kitchen. In: McCloy, R. (eds) Education Across the United Kingdom 1944–2017. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89917-6_5
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