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The group has achieved the highest score possible with all its ten settings that have been inspected achieving outstanding grades (with an 11th nursery awaiting its first inspection.)
Quality among the large nursery groups is continuing to rise.
A higher proportion of settings run by the biggest chains are graded good or outstanding than Ofsted’s latest figures for all nurseries.
According to our analysis, 89.8 per cent of the settings owned or managed by the 20 largest groups are graded good or outstanding.
The latest Ofsted statistics show that, as of 31 March this year, 87 percent of providers on non-domestic premises were judged good or outstanding in their most recent inspections.
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