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New plea for defrauded nursery owners
By Simon Vevers,
Nursery World,
14 February 2008
A nursery provider in Cornwall who has unpaid fees of £20,000 - a large proportion of it due to tax credit fraud - is urging the Government to think again and channel money to providers, not parents.
Gill Smith, who runs Gooseberry Bush nursery in Camborne, said that although these problems do not threaten the sustainability of the 80-place facility, it is 'on the tightest budget in 16 years' because of the soaring outstanding fees. She has called in a debt collector but is not hopeful of recovering money, 'because people often disappear off the face of the earth' once...
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