Global education business swoops for safeguarding training provider
Tes Global, a digital education business which works with 25,000 schools in over 100 countries, has acquired Warwick-based safeguarding training provider EduCare.
Based in Leamington Spam EduCare provides online self-serve training, helping teachers and others to meet their safeguarding and duty of care responsibilities.
The acquisition of EduCare will expand Tes’s successful teacher training and development arm, Tes Institute, which is now one of the UK’s largest qualifiers of teachers. It also further positions Tes as a leading edtech provider of digital services to teachers and schools.
EduCare was founded by Keir McDonald, with a goal of elevating awareness, instilling knowledge and the confidence to act around key safeguarding and duty of care issues.
EduCare’s online training helps ensure the safety of children and vulnerable people across society and supports institutions in meeting the statutory requirements set out in the Department for Education’s ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ (KCSIE) and other guidance.
Rob Grimshaw, CEO of TES Global, said: “We’re delighted that EduCare will be joining the Tes family. Teachers and thousands of others who work with children love EduCare’s training and we’re excited about the opportunity to make it available to the Tes community of more than 11 million educators worldwide.
“EduCare’s wide range of courses are used to help keep children safe in schools all over the world, including thousands of English primary and secondary schools. Keir has built a market leading business around a strong vision and a principled approach. Tes will stay true to these values as we aim to extend EduCare’s impact even further.”
Keir McDonald, founder and CEO of EduCare, said: “Since I founded EduCare, its mission has been to keep people safe and eliminate ignorance in areas of duty of care. I’m delighted that this can continue under Tes’s stewardship.
“With over six million course completions and one million just in the last 12 months, Tes are absolutely the right company to rapidly build on these numbers; I couldn’t imagine a better future for EduCare. Our success in building EduCare could not have been achieved without our brilliant staff and I would like to thank them all for supporting me in my mission.”
Tes employs more than 600 people and operates across 20 offices, including in London, Sheffield, Hong Kong, Sydney, and Dubai.
Keir McDonald and EduCare were represented by Leamington Spa based advisers Burgis & Bullock Corporate Finance and law firm Wright Hassall.
TES were represented by DLA Piper.
