As local authorities cut back, nurseries already have their work cut out to continue to invest in enhanced facilities and improved learning environments for children.
Hitherto, cash businesses such as taxi firms and security companies have provided the main focus of worries over money laundering. Allegations that nurseries are being used as a front for money laundering by creating the fiction that children who do not exist are attending the nursery and that their fictitious parents are paying cash are not entirely new. But nursery owners have long been aware of the fact that their businesses are open to exploitation in this way.
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