{"id":17629,"date":"2024-11-18T13:44:24","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T13:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=17629"},"modified":"2024-11-18T13:44:24","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T13:44:24","slug":"ni-education-authority-halts-500m-fujitsu-schools-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=17629","title":{"rendered":"NI Education Authority halts \u00a3500m Fujitsu schools&#039; contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The Education Authority (EA) in Northern Ireland has decided not to proceed with a contract with Fujitsu worth almost \u00a3500m.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The contract was to provide a new IT system for all schools in Northern Ireland.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The Japanese firm has faced criticism <!-- --><a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cvg7k89x8rzo\" class=\"sc-c9299ecf-0 bZUiKB\">for its role in the Post Office scandal<!-- --><\/a>.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Fujitsu created the faulty Horizon software which wrongly calculated money was missing from Post Office branches.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr style=\"border-top: 2px solid #ccc; margin-top: 20px;\">\n<p><em>Source: <\/em> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c774mdxy0mno\">www.bbc.com\u2026<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Education Authority (EA) in Northern Ireland has decided not to proceed with a contract with Fujitsu worth almost \u00a3500m. The contract was to provide a new IT system for all schools in Northern Ireland. The Japanese firm has faced criticism for its role in the Post Office scandal. Fujitsu created the faulty Horizon software [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}