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£77 million snatched from schoolchildren by greedy privateers
Companies are leeching millions from our education system as a result of the Tories' backdoor privatisation

A tax avoidance racket by privateers leeching millions from the Tories' backdoor privatisation of education in England is laid bare today in a damning new Trades Union Congress exposé.

A stunning £77 million in public money has been snatched away from schoolchildren and stuffed into the pockets of consultants since the Tory-led coalition took power in 2010.

Accountancy firm PKF - whose parent company BDO offers "offshore tax planning" to "high net-worth individuals" - has been handed £8 million.

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