@thegeniusmanofficial: Nursery Boss Convicted of £25k Childcare Funding Fraud Scheme On 20 February 2020, Kaljit Randhawa — a 33-year-old nursery director at Baby Einsteins Nursery Ltd, later trading as the Little Genius Academy, on Great Bridge Street in West Bromwich — was sentenced to two years and four months in prison at Warwick Crown Court after being found guilty of 15 counts of fraud by false representation following a four-week trial at Wolverhampton Crown Court in January 2020. The Sandwell Counter Fraud Unit investigation revealed that between January 2017 and December 2018, Randhawa — who had received formal training from Sandwell Council on the Early Years and Nursery Education Funding scheme — submitted false claims totalling £25,435 for children who had never attended, children who had already left, and children whose parents were privately paying full fees, a practice internally described as double bubble. The scheme unravelled during Ofsted and Sandwell Council inspections in 2018 when attendance records for multiple children were found to be missing, and investigators established that four children had never set foot in the nursery. A text message sent by Randhawa to a former pupil's parent, instructing them to claim the child still held a place if questioned, proved central to the prosecution's case. Judge Barry Berlin imposed the custodial sentence on a scheme that targeted free childcare funding designed specifically for the low-income families Randhawa's nursery was meant to serve. Disclaimer: This video is a dramatization based on real events. Some visual content was created with artificial intelligence assistance. Some details have been fictionalized and all names have been changed to protect the privacy of those involved.

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