Nursery World - CfBt sells four nurseries to All About Children

Nursery group CfBT Education Trust has sold its nurseries in the South of England to growing chain All About Children.

The deal will see the group, set up last year by a former chief executive of Asquith Nurseries Russell Ford, double in size to eight settings.

The sale leaves CfBT with four nurseries in the North of England and one in Berkshire, as well as five nursery units at independent schools.

The not-for-profit education and training company has said that following a review of its worldwide operations it intends to concentrate on developing the schools side of the business in the UK, including setting up free schools and academies.

It currently has one free school, All Saints Junior in Reading, which opened in September, and has been given the go-ahead by the Department for Education to open two more from September 2012 in Wokingham, Berkshire and Enfield, north London. It also runs five academies spread throughout the country.

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