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EDUCATION SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS LTD
Profile
- Company number
- 12595779
- Status
- Active
- Incorporation
- 2020-05-11
- Last accounts made up
- 2024-11-30
- Account category
- FULL
- Primary SIC
- 62012
Accounts
Pending extraction
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Audit & accounting basis
From AI-extracted PDF accounts
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Grant Thornton UK LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The forecasts show the group will be able to operate within the level of its lending facilities, and will have sufficient cash and covenant headroom for a period of at least 12 months from the approval date of these financial statements.”
Significant events
- “In October 2023, the company obtained actionable evidence that its two principal MIS competitors, in the company's view, unlawfully using the group's intellectual property ("IP") to migrate customers from the SIMS to their MIS.”
- “In May 2024 the CMA opened an investigation into the group's objections to the unlawful use its IP by these MIS competitors.”
- “In December 2023 the Education Authority for Northern Ireland ("EANI") awarded a £485m contract to Fujitsu Service Limited, which included the provision of a MIS for all state schools in Northern Ireland for a 12 year period.”
- “In December 2024, less than a year after the contract award, EANI terminated its contract with Fujitsu and novated Fujitsu's MIS subcontract to EANI without undertaking a new procurement process.”
- “Accordingly, in January 2025 the company commenced legal action against EANI, seeking both an injunction to prevent EANI from migrating schools to the alternative MIS and a full trial to consider whether the novation breached the PCR and should be deemed unlawful.”
Auditor / going-concern / subsidiary information is extracted from the PDF version of the latest annual accounts and is not tagged in iXBRL. About these numbers
People
6 active · 9 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| THOMAS, Michelle Donna | Secretary | 2021-08-12 | — | — |
| ALCRAFT, Lewis James | Director | 2022-10-12 | May 1979 | British |
| GOVETT, Nigel Jeremy Cloudesley | Director | 2021-08-12 | Jun 1962 | British |
| NEUBAUER, Eirion Andrew Charles | Director | 2021-08-12 | Dec 1960 | British |
| VAN STADEN, Andries Jacobus | Director | 2026-02-24 | Jun 1974 | British |
| WILSON, Clint Anthony | Director | 2021-08-12 | Jul 1971 | British |
Show 9 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAPITA GROUP SECRETARY LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2020-05-11 | 2021-01-29 |
| BAKER, Christopher Francis Henry | Director | 2020-07-14 | 2021-01-29 |
| BENNETT, Andrew Stephen | Director | 2020-07-14 | 2021-09-12 |
| BRANT, Mark Roger | Director | 2021-08-12 | 2022-10-12 |
| COWAN, James | Director | 2020-07-14 | 2021-01-29 |
| MODI, Rajul Kishore | Director | 2020-07-14 | 2022-05-19 |
| TIMLIN, Andrew James | Director | 2020-07-14 | 2021-01-29 |
| TODD, Francesca Anne | Director | 2020-05-11 | 2021-01-29 |
| CAPITA CORPORATE DIRECTOR LIMITED | Corporate Director | 2020-05-11 | 2021-01-29 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tiger Uk Bidco Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100% | 2021-01-29 | Active |
| Capita Ess Holdings Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2020-05-11 | Ceased 2021-01-29 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 51 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-25 | AP01 | officers | appoint person director company with name date |
| 2025-09-03 | CH01 | officers | change person director company with change date |
| 2025-09-02 | AA | accounts | accounts with accounts type full |
| 2025-05-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | confirmation statement with no updates |
| 2024-12-05 | AA | accounts | accounts with accounts type full |
| 2024-05-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | confirmation statement with no updates |
| 2023-08-31 | AA | accounts | accounts with accounts type full |
| 2023-05-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | confirmation statement with no updates |
| 2022-12-19 | AA | accounts | accounts with accounts type full |
| 2022-11-01 | CH01 | officers | change person director company with change date |
| 2022-10-13 | AP01 | officers | appoint person director company with name date |
| 2022-10-13 | TM01 | officers | termination director company with name termination date |
| 2022-09-13 | AA01 | accounts | change account reference date company previous shortened |
| 2022-05-19 | TM01 | officers | termination director company with name termination date |
| 2022-05-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | confirmation statement with no updates |
| 2022-05-17 | AA | accounts | accounts with accounts type full |
| 2021-09-14 | TM01 | officers | termination director company with name termination date |
| 2021-08-19 | AP03 | officers | appoint person secretary company with name date |
| 2021-08-19 | AD01 | address | change registered office address company with date old address new address |
| 2021-08-19 | AP01 | officers | appoint person director company with name date |
Credit score
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