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United Learning loses High Court battle over £2m MIS deal

Country’s biggest academy trust said a ruling it broke the law in appointing Arbor over Bromcom will be ‘of concern to all schools’

DfE blocks MAT’s bid to take shares in outsourcing firm

An outsourcing firm has urged the government not to be “hung up on fear of the different” after officials thwarted a multi-academy trust’s bid to take shares in the for-profit company. Schools Week revealed in March that Transforming Futures Trust (TFT) had signed a £1 million deal to outsource most of its central staff and […]

Trust embroiled in £2m contract legal row amid move to the cloud

England’s largest academy trust is entangled in a High Court legal dispute with a major software supplier that lost out on a £2 million contract to move the trust to a cloud-based data system. Bromcom Computers claims United Learning breached procurement law by awarding rival Arbor a five-year contract to provide its management information system […]