In the past six months, The Co-operative Childcare has increased its number of places by 50 per cent, kidsunlimited has opened a further four settings and nursery group Treetops has secured an £8m loan to fund a further 19 nurseries.
At the beginning of May, The Co-operative Childcare acquired the Petit Enfant chain of four settings in Oxfordshire.
This followed its takeover of the Places for Children and Banana Moon nurseries in March, bringing the total number of nurseries in the group to 44, plus two after-school clubs.
The group, which ranked at number 13 in Nursery World's Nursery Chains league table last October when it was offering 2,044 places, now offers more than 3,000.
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