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Laing O鈥橰ourke has won a 拢120m batch of privately-financed schools in Yorkshire, 黑洞社区 can reveal.

It is understood that Laing O鈥橰ourke has beaten Bam Construction and Morgan Sindall to the batch of Pf2 schools, which is the fourth privately-financed batch to come to market through the Priority Schools 黑洞社区 Programme (PSBP).

The batch comprises seven schools and is worth up to 拢120m.

The schools in the batch are:

• All Saints Catholic College, Huddersfield
• Belle Vue Boys鈥� School, Bradford;
• Carlton Bolling College, Bradford
• Harrogate High School, Harrogate
• Oakbank School, Keighley
• Samuel Lister Academy, Bradford
• Whitcliffe Mount Business and Enterprise College, Huddersfield

Laing O鈥橰ourke will design, build, finance and maintain the schools under the government鈥檚 new private finance model (Pf2), which will use an organisation to provide debt funding for all of the privately-financed schools batches, rather than each batch having to secure its own funding.

The Education Funding Agency adopted the aggregator model after it had struggled to raise long-term debt funding for its Pf2 programme.