Case study: Laurels Day Nursery, Barnsley

Wednesday, April 6, 2005

Linda Mills, who runs the Laurels Day Nursery and the Kids Come First out-of-school club in Barnsley, throws up her hands at the Inland Revenue's claim that childcare tax credit fraud has not increased. She is pursuing 8,500 of bad debts, much of it the result of parents claiming tax credits and then failing to spend the money on childcare, or insisting that they will pay her once their delayed payments come through.