EDUCATIONAL support services expert Educate Group is aiming to achieve a £3m turnover as it prepares to significantly grow the business over the next 12 months. The Wrexham-based business is to expand its supply services from its North Wales heartland into Cheshire and Shropshire, while continuing to invest in its England-based teacher training facility. It is also set to move into the children’s residential care sector having recently acquired its first property in the Wrexham area. In addition, the Educate Group is working towards gaining ‘Independent School status’. This will allow it to use its own expertise in educating young people in residential care, rather than having to engage an outside provider, and support local authorities with strategic alternative education strategies.