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Place Group launches Everything Estates

Place Group has launched Everything Estates: a new portfolio of fast-track frameworks giving public sector estates compliant, low cost access to hundreds of pre-qualified suppliers.

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Looking for growth support for your Multi-Academy Trust? We can help!

A reminder of the unmatched support that Place Group provides to Multi Academy Trusts (MATs) with their growth ambitions and plans.

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Successful completion of GB Energy Solar Partnership Programme

Place Group, part of the Barker Consortium, has completed a programme supporting 79 schools and colleges to cut energy use and carbon emissions through solar PV, LED lighting and behaviour change.

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2026 Childcare Sufficiency Assessment for Cheshire East Council

April 29, 2026

Read the Cheshire East Childcare Sufficiency Assessment summary and action plan, and 26 Planning Area summaries.

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What is the Competitive Flexible Procedure?

The new Procurement Act 2023, which goes live today, introduces significant changes to the way the public sector procures, with the aim of improving the effectiveness and transparency of public sector procurement in the UK.

One of the key changes relates to the procurement procedures which can be used for undertaking competitive procurement. The complex, rigid competitive procurement processes of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (PCR 2015) have been replaced…

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How to successfully implement the Procurement Act 2023 – Q&A for Education Professionals

Our recent webinar, How to successfully implement the Procurement Act 2023, gave us an opportunity to understand the questions those working in the education sector have about the impact the legislation changes will have on their procurement activity.

We’ve pulled together the questions asked and answers given by Jessica Brydon, our Procurement, Quality & Compliance Director and expert in the forthcoming Procurement Act during the session below.

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Don’t let the delay to the Procurement Act 2023 slow you down

On Thursday 12th September, the Cabinet Office announced a delay to the go-live date for the Procurement Act 2023 from 28th October 2024 to 24th February 2025.

Despite the delay, it is essential that contracting authorities continue preparation for the new Act ahead of the new go-live date, to ensure you can best capitalise on the flexibilities and benefits the new Act provides.

The 3 key next steps to prepare for the new regime are:

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