The QCA has at long last pulled the plug on ETS over the SATS marking debacle with the company being forced to pay back the remaining four years of its contract payment.
It is good news that the taxpayers won’t have to pay ETS £19.5 million over the next four years but it can’t hide the fact that someone at the government end should be held responsible for this cock-up. After all, they signed a £156 million contract with a firm whose record should have set alarm bells ringing.
Ed Balls should take the blame but he won’t, arguing that his department had passed responsibility for the contract to the QCA. Ken Boston, the QCA chief executive, doesn’t have anyone else to blame and so he should start clearing his desk.
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