Official jailed over bogus club grants

By Catherine Gaunt, Nursery World, 21 October 2004

A local government employee was found guilty last week of attempting to defraud a London local authority of more than £100,000 of Sure Start funds earmarked for after-school clubs. Uche Wogu, a business and support manager at the Learning Trust, which runs education services in the borough of Hackney, conspired with a former east London police officer Kurtis Nwadikwa-Jonathan to submit bogus applications to the Trust for Sure Start out-of-school grants worth around £100,000.

A local government employee was found guilty last week of attempting to defraud a London local authority of more than £100,000 of Sure Start funds earmarked...

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