Badge - 'Education Vote On I.L.E.A'
Object
Badge
Production date
1988-1990
Object number
2023.42
Physical Description
Metal badge with a yellow background design and black and red text that reads 'Education Save It! Vote on I.L.E.A'
Object history
The badge is part of a campaign aimed to save I.L.E.A. (Inner London Education Authority) which, between the 1965 and 1990, was the local education authority for the City of London and the 12 Boroughs of London.
Personal experiences
Shared by Ian Rathbone, activist and local school governor during the abolition of I.L.E.A:
“So Thatcher, part of her battle was, first of all, to basically get the GLC closed, which caused horrendous disruption to local government. And then further in 1990 by abolishing I.L.E.A, Inner London Education Authority. Almost that was worse.
I was involved in that fight, I mean I was a governor of a school, in a chair of governors at a school in Hackney. We were fighting like crazy to try and stop it, because it was wonderful. The I.L.E.A was such a wonderful organisation. It just did so many things because it was London wide, it had London resources. So the richer boroughs could help the poorer boroughs. It was literally the rich helping the poor kind of principle. And she abolished it.”
Associated Organisation
ILEA Inner London Education Authority (Subject of)
Associated Place
Material
Metal
Dimension
Diameter: 37mm
On display?
No
Inscription
Education Save It! Vote on I.L.E.A
