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Barnsley BSF

Work has started on the first phase of an ambitious £1billion plus scheme which will transform secondary and special education in Barnsley. Barnsley's Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme has reached financial close for the first phase of the programme forming a Local Education Business Partnership with its private sector partner Barnsley Partnership for Learning (BP4L), a joint venture between Laing O'Rourke and John Laing.

BP4L has been selected to deliver a complete transformation of educational facilities throughout the borough alongside ICT partner Civica. In addition, John Laing Integrated Services will provide facilities management services on the PFI and the Design and Build Schools over the 25 year concession.

Each new school will cost between £25million and £30million with much of the funding coming from the council's and school's own resources and additional funding from others, including central government.

Cleveland and Durham Police Tactical Training Centre

The Cleveland and Durham Police Tactical Training Centre is a state of the art facility for the training of police officers in the use of firearms. It was the first of its type to be developed under PFI and provides 6,200 training places annually to police officers.

The facility comprises a 30 metre, 180 degree firing range, a 100 metre internal firing range with electronically generated targets, a laser judgemental range, an abseil tower, a climbing wall, skills house for close quarter contact training, method of entry rigs, an external baton range, a vehicle stop and search area, classrooms and a lecture theatre.

John Laing Integrated Services provides range, armoury and systems maintenance, in addition to managing IT systems, building maintenance, asset renewal, security, specialist cleaning, grounds maintenance and catering services.