Nursery World - Nursery Chains 2023 – N Family Club stays at number one

N Family Club retains the top spot as in our Nursery Chains quality table, which analyses the Ofsted reports of the 25 biggest groups in the UK.

N Family Club West Hampstead – the nursery group has the highest proportion of Outstanding Ofsted grades of the 25 biggest groups

The group scores the highest for having the greatest proportion of Outstanding grades among its inspected nurseries (62.5 per cent).

N Family Club has grown in the past 12 months to 26 nurseries and is now the 19th in size, with eight of its settings so far inspected by Ofsted.

Congratulations to the group, which was also our top scorer in our Ofsted table in 2022.

The Childbase Partnership is close behind in second place, with 61.0 per cent of its 41 inspected nurseries graded Outstanding.

In third place is the London Early Years Foundation, with 47.2 per cent of its inspected nurseries graded Outstanding, followed by Storal Learning in fourth place with 43.8 per cent Outstanding grades.

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