EDUCATION SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS LTD

Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers

• Turnover

  -0.9%

  £74,415,051 → £73,781,785

• Cash

  +17.1%

  £9,550,480 → £11,185,269

• Net assets

  +40.6%

  £22,800,034 → £32,045,852

• Employees

  -3.8%

  471 → 453

• Operating profit

  +5.2%

  £10,981,933 → £11,557,721

• Profit before tax

  +7%

  £11,344,146 → £12,135,730

• Wages

  +1.4%

  £21,723,075 → £22,024,862

Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers

Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.

1. EDUCATION SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS LTD 2021-05-21 → present
2. CAPITA ESS LIMITED 2020-05-11 → 2021-05-21

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 and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

4

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

1

last 12 months

Officers resigned

0

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.