Nursery World - Nursery Chains: League tables

There are some new faces in our Top 25 table of nursery groups this year, and in our extensive directory too. Catherine Gaunt analyses the latest moves in both size and quality of the chains.

This is the 15th issue of Nursery Chains. As we do every year, we are publishing the league table of the 25 biggest nursery groups in the UK.

Between them, these nurseries offer a combined total of 77,319 nursery places.

For this year’s table, we have taken the decision to include only those nursery groups that are predominantly based in the UK, which means that while the Irish groups Cocoon Nurseries and Giraffe Childcare and Early Learning Centres are listed in the following pages we have not included them in the top 25 table because neither of them has settings in the UK.

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