Resilient is the best word to describe the early years sector,’ says Courteney Donaldson, managing director of childcare and education at Christie & Co.
‘It goes through so many issues but always bounces back, and the pandemic has been no exception.’
With huge, unprecedented pressure over the last year and a half, early years operators could be forgiven for taking some time to relax, reassess and regroup. But there has been very little lull in market activity in recent months, as expansions and acquisitions continue apace, and the market looks on course to return to pre-Covid levels.
Andrew K Steen, sales and marketing director at Redwoods Dowling Kerr, says, ‘We are now back to pre-Covid levels, and in the past few months, transaction levels have actually been outperforming pre-Covid.’
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