The report was produced by Sir Will Spens CBE, the Master from 1927-52 of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
Sub-committees were set up to look into the grammar school curriculum in March 1935, and a drafting committee in February 1936.
The Report was published on Friday 30 December 1938 by the Consultative Committee of the Board of Education.
It concluded that the existing arrangements for the whole-time education of boys and girls in England and Wales have ceased to correspond with the actual structure of modern society and with the economic facts of the situation.
This largely implemented main portions of the Spens Report.