A rail engineering training provider is set to close after a combined authority suddenly terminated its adult education contract amid a dispute over “unsatisfactory” funding claims.
GNR Training has been left effectively bankrupt after Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority (CPCA) stopped paying the provider in February after accusations of “serious non-compliance” with its rules were made.
But GNR, a family-run business that delivers short adult-education courses, has strongly refuted the authority’s allegations and even claims the provider has itself been underpaid by officials over the past three years.
GNR is now attempting to rally its local MP to intervene in what it claims to be a “stitch-up” situation in which it was “set up to fail”. More than 30 rail engineering learners have been left in limbo as a result of the stand-off.
