Powers and Composition
Berkshire County Council’s main focus was on education, which was unusual for a County council before the Academy scheme. As is more typical of county councils, it also ran regional services such as public transport, health provision and planning. It served to provide a strategic regional framework within which the differing plans of its six district councils could be harmonised.
As with many County Councils, the Local Government Act 1974 changed the structure of the council, and a large area around Abingdon and the Vale of the White Horse became part of Oxfordshire while Slough, which had been within Buckinghamshire, became part of Berkshire.
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