I recently worked with the BBC Panorama programme on an investigation into procurement practices and related party transactions at the Bright Tribe multi-academy trust (MAT). The programme was aired earlier this month.
I was filmed for the broadcast answering questions for around two hours. I was one of a number of talking heads in the show. However, it wasn’t possible to pack huge amounts of detail into a 30-minute programme and it meant that a lot of facts didn’t make it into the final cut.
UNISON first became aware of Bright Tribe in the summer of 2015 when our Essex branch noted that the MAT was proposing to outsource staff at their Colchester Academy to different private companies.
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